ORILLIA — Orillia OPP continue to investigate after person barricaded themselves on William Street Thursday for six hours. Police say that on March 28, 2018, at approximately 10 p.m. Orillia OPP members attended a William Street address to arrest a male. The male indicated he had a firearm and refused to comply with police. As a result […]
ORILLIA — In light of the Easter weekend seat belt blitz, the OPP notes it has laid 257,475 seat belt charges over the last ten years, with people 25 to 34 issued more charges (63,846) than any other demographic. Drivers and passengers aged 35 to 44 come in second with 50,863 charges and 45 to 54 […]
PORT McNICOLL — Southern Georgian Bay OPP are investigating a number of separate break-ins, and have arrested three people with possession of burglary tools and possession of dangerous weapons. They say that on Wednesday March 28, 2018 at 1 a.m. members of the Southern Georgian Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were dispatched […]
March 29, 2018 Dear Editor: Over the past number of weeks, the leadership team of Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare has watched as our chief executive officer has been referred to in a negative light, her reputation unfairly tarnished. We, the leadership, want you to know the Natalie we know. Natalie began her hospital career as a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Ontario is becoming more socialist, says Norm Miller. “This government wants to play a bigger part in people’s lives,” the Progressive Conservative Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP said in his post budget analysis Wednesday. “I would call what it’s doing as socialism.” The budget offers lots of more spending for pre-school […]
QUEEN’S PARK — “Good on the mayor and council ….” Norm Miller has come out strongly on the side his communities in a growing and nasty dispute with local hospital operators. The Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP was up in the legislature Thursday “in support of the everyone who relies upon the hospitals in Huntsville and Bracebridge,” […]
BARRIE — Three Barrie residents have been charged in a pair of drug raids in the city in an investigation involving the OPP’s Biker Enforcement Unit (BEU). Provincial police said Wednesday afternoon that on March 27, 2018, members of the BEU, the OPP Tactical Unit and Barrie Police Service Tactical Unit executed a Criminal Code […]
GRAVENHURST— Brenda Rhodes is giving politics another go a decade later. The executive director of the Bracebridge-Port Sydney Chamber of Commerce, who ran locally for the Liberals in the 2007 provincial election, got the party’s nod again Tuesday as the candidate for Parry Sound–Muskoka. She received 9,819 votes (26.71 per cent of the 36,766 votes […]