SIMCOE MUSKOKA — Drug overdoses that double the recent daily average. So, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit is warning anyone using street drugs to be extremely cautious about their supplies, as hospital emergency department visits due to suspected overdoses have risen above recent levels. In one 10-day period, they say that from June 17 […]
CENTRAL ONTARIO — Welcome to summer — for real. No more mixed bag weather, the heat is on baby. The first good long stretch of hot weather is here just in time for the end of school and start of vacations for many. So, grab your beach towel, sun screen, water bottle and map. It’s […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Police are looking for an intruder who entered a home here overnight and sexually assaulted a resident Sunday. Provincial police and the Muskoka Crime Unit are investigating an intrusion to a home in Bracebridge that occurred at approximately 1 a.m., June 24, 2018 during which an unknown male suspect entered the dwelling and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford threw Parry Sound-Muskoka a bone today. After snubbing MPP Norm Miller for cabinet, he named him as his assistant in the post of Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs. Ford himself is premier and minister of inter-governmental affairs. Miller will essentially deal with the upper and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com TORONTO — Parry Sound-Muskoka has been snubbed. One of the Tories’ longest-serving MPPs has been shut out of cabinet. Minutes ago Premier Doug Ford was sworn in and unveiled the ministers who will assist him in the top government departments. Norm Miller, who was elected a sixth time as a Progressive Conservative, […]
PORT SYDNEY — With summer campers just days away from arriving, Camp Mini-Yo-We is turning to staff to prepare them for the excited kids. They are hosting a new, premier summer leadership conference, exclusive for their summer staff made up of high school and college aged students. They say in a release this week that […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Cody Herbert isn’t much for pomp and circumstance. He was reluctant to don cap and gown for his Grade 12 graduation photo Wednesday morning at the Marriott hotel. And he said he felt “uncomfortable” with the class photo before he received his diploma. “With the whole thing,” he said […]
GRAVENHURST — TGIB. TGIF that is. Thank God Thank God It’s Friday is back. Hungry heat-challenged barbecuers can get inside and enjoy a cold one and a hot meal — both at the same time — this Friday, June 29. The 302 Harry Wray legion returns tomorrow with its monthly end-of-week rib fest. As in […]