HUNTSVILLE — A unit-specific outbreak has the Huntsville District Memorial Hospital issuing visitor restrictions yesterday. Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC) says that in consultation with the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, it declared the unit-specific COVID-19 outbreak on the South Wing of HDMH Friday Dec. 27. Due to the outbreak, general visitors are not permitted, and […]
GRAVENHURST — Not happy with Santa, someone broke into a business here Christmas night. Police are investigating a break and enter reported December 25 10:40 p.m. Officers were dispatched to a break and enter at the business located on Muskoka Road South at Philip Street West. They say suspect(s) broke in through a window and made […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A Gravenhurst man was in bail court yesterday after a motel at the north end of Manitoba Street was damaged by fire early Monday in what police are calling a case of arson. The incident followed an evening of police presence after several 911 calls late Sunday night December 22, between 6 p.m. […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A local man faces drug and impaired driving charges after a public complaint about his driving Saturday. On December 21, at 10:15 p.m., police responded to a concern from a member of the pubic about the well-being of a driver in a vehicle that had stopped near Pine Street in Bracebridge. As a result, […]
HUNTSVILLE — Police are looking for video footage after a transport driver whose vehicle became disabled was assaulted by an irate driver. They say that on Wednesday December 18, at 5:30 p.m. OPP responded to a disturbance on King William Street. Officers responded and through investigation determined that a male driver had approached the driver […]
BRACEBRIDGE — An officer on patrol who spotted an ATV driver with missing safety equipment has been charged with impaired operation on Tuesday. Police say that on December 17, just after 4 p.m., they were conducting proactive patrols on Frederick Street in south east Bracebridge, and stopped the driver of an all terrain vehichle. As […]
HUNTSVILLE — A man suspected of sexually assaulting a young child in 2015 was charged here yesterday after the youngster came forward a year ago. On December 17 the Muskoka Crime Unit, with the assistance of the OPP’s forensic interview team and forensic sketch artist, made an arrest in this historic sexual assault investigation. Kelly Mahon, […]
GRAVENHURST — A report of a suspicious person and a possible rifle in a snowbank has police looking for the person involved here last Thursday. Police say that on December 12, at 10 p.m., officers were dispatched to a report of a suspicious person who had been standing in front of a residence on Pinegrove […]