Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — After a slow start the first week, Muskoka’s two Muskoka COVID-19 assessment centres (AC) now report they have assessed and tested almost 1,000 people for the coronavirus. Janine van den Heuvel, executive director of the Algonquin Family Health Team co-ordinating the sites in Bracebridge and Huntsville, says as of […]
HUNTSVILLE — A man and woman from Huntsville are in hospital this morning after a southbound collision of their car and a transport on Hwy. 11. Provincial police say that on Thursday, May 7, at 9:40 a.m. Huntsville OPP, Huntsville Lake of Bays Fire Department and Muskoka Paramedics Services responded to the collision at the Lindgren […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A Gravenhurst man reportedly “passed out” in his vehicle Tuesday faces a charge of operation of vehicle while drug-impaired. Provincial police say that on May 5, at 8 p.m., they received a report of a man who appeared to be passed out in the driver’s seat of a vehicle in a parking lot […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The scare terror about Ontario cottagers driving COVID-19 out of the GTA — where Premier Doug Ford says it’s centred — is dividing experts and politicians. On the eve of a much anticipated meeting with Muskoka mayors about how to approach May 24, Haldimand-Norfolk is a test case. It’s […]
MUSKOKA — Weeks after mounting deaths at Ontario LTCs, the province has finally ordered COVID-19 testing for all residents and staff at The Pines in Bracebridge and Fairvern Nursing Home in Huntsville. The District of Muskoka says in a release late this afternoon, that as part of Ontario’s pandemic priority, all residents and staff at […]
GRAVENHURST — Occupants of a house here on Hwy. 11 south held a garage fire in check with a garden hose this afternoon until firefighters quickly arrived to put it out. The Gravenhurst Fire Department tweeted Wednesday, May 6, that Stations 1 and 2 firefighters responded to the blaze at 1:20 p.m., on the southbound […]
SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Good Samaritans are travelling every street and back road in Muskoka. Whether it’s food or financial assistance, grocery shopping or pick-up and delivery or home-made masks, there’s no shortage of help from public and NGOs for those in need. If you’re in need somebody will help you. Or those who fall through the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Premier Doug Ford, who took a swipe today at “almost half” the medical officers of health (MOH), said there is “no order — and there won’t be,” telling cottagers to “stay away” from Muskoka May 24. “Be prepared — they’re coming,” he said in a daily news briefing from […]