MUSKOKA LAKES — A Bracebridge driver faces four charges including fleeing the scene of an accident after an occupant was airlifted to Toronto with serious injuries late Friday. Police say officers, along with Muskoka EMS and Muskoka Lakes Fire Department, responded to a single vehicle crash after 911 calls from people in the area of […]
TARA COLLUM | Contributing columnist Why didn’t we learn more about the 1918 Great Influenza pandemic that killed 50 million people? We hoped, somehow, it wouldn’t happen again. We collectively blocked out the trauma or were ashamed by what we had done or hadn’t done. While the joy of reunions with loved ones is tempered […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — It’ll take a week after the election call for the slate of local federal candidates to be sorted out. But by at Monday we’ll know who MP Scott Aichison will face in his re-election bid Monday, Sept. 20. He’ll be up against a new line-up of party challengers […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — An overnight death in Simcoe today comes as the county sees 21 new COVID cases. The man, aged 45-64, was 1 of 2 people in the province reported to have died, as Ontario reported a surging 650 COVID cases. Public Health Ontario only counted 15 people with the virus […]
UTTERSON — Health and Ministry of Environment officials today are monitoring an algae outbreak here in Three Mile Lake. Residents and visitors to the Utterson area in Muskoka Lakes Township are being cautioned about a confirmed blue-green algae bloom impacting the north end of Hammell’s Bay. The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) urges everyone […]
GRAVENHURST — A “very early” morning theft yesterday netted a thief a very large haul. Provincial police say they are investigating the theft of a 2020 Miska galvanized tri-axle dump trailer valued at more than $20,000. It bears the Ontario licence plate number S5927X. The trailer was stolen from a construction business located on Muskoka […]
GRAVENHURST — Two GTA men were in bail court today charged with trafficking in stolen goods after a complaint here late yesterday afternoon about people trying to sell generators from their car. Provincial police say a suspicious member of the public called them just before 5 p.m., Wednesday Aug. 18, and said two people in […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — Police charged two people here yesterday with impaired driving, after a Corvette hit a utility pole mid-afternoon and a Muskoka Lakes man was stopped in a RIDE check last night. Provincial police charged a Toronto woman after they say her Corvette hit a telephone pole. Officers responded to the collision on Peninsula […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Put in context the fourth wave is far worse than the first three — with almost three quarters of Canadians fully vaccinated. That’s as Simcoe-Muskoka reported 28 new cases today and 17 on Wednesday. Thursday’s cases were: Huntsville woman, 65-79, who had travelled and reported Aug. 18 after first […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Stuck on Step 3. That’s Ontario with 99 per cent of rising COVID cases Delta variants. And Simcoe-Muskoka marred in flagging vaccinations among young residents. This as Dr. Kieran Moore still predicts a “difficult” fourth wave fall, says Ontario’s chief medical officer of health. Dr. Charles Gardner, his regional […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Vaccines won’t be mandatory for all Ontarians — but in a step in the right direction health and education workers will have to be vaccinated by Sept. 7 or else …. This as the health unit reports 14 cases in Simcoe and 1 in Muskoka — a Georgian Bay […]
MUSKOKA — A local labour dispute threatens health services for children with rehabilitative needs including occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, physiotherapy and autism. A strike mandate for the 73 professional workers represented by OPSEU/SEFPO at One Kids Place (OKP) has been issued by members to its bargaining team. In all 97 per cent voted […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — A Bracebridge man was airlifted to hospital in Toronto late this morning after a head-on collision. Provincial police says officers along with Muskoka EMS and Muskoka Lakes Fire Department responded to a two-vehicle collision on Muskoka Road 118 near Milford Bay just before 11:00 a.m. The head-on collision left one driver trapped […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Three of the 44 cases reported today by the health unit were in Muskoka — and they continue a local trend that last week saw a 165 per cent jump in cases since the first week of August. The new cases are the latest weekend update since Friday by […]
Well, I’m about to celebrate my seventh anniversary as a tea drinker. Not just a run of the mill tea drinker, but rather a green tea sipper to the max. Someone told me that drinking green tea is a healthy habit and will cause you to live forever. Of course, being a Christian I was […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Natalia Hawthorn is back on track today after a near disaster almost befell her at the Olympics. The Bracebridge-born, North Vancouver resident is in Memphis with a new goal to meet the 1,500m world championships qualifying time for next July in Eugene, Oregon. That will be almost a year after Tokyo, […]
TARA COLLUM | Contributing columnist Sometimes the subway needs to shut down at rush hour and it can take a long time to get people back on their way. And long lines form as people wait for shuttle buses. A few years ago a dog somehow got on the tracks and the TTC shut down […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Call her COVID #19. A Muskoka Lakes girl who tested positive for the coronavirus is among 19 regional residents with the dreaded Delta variant. The health unit says the under-18 child is under investigation after being reported yesterday with a first episode Tuesday. She is among 510 cases the […]
GRAVENHURST — Forget vaccine passports, criminals are travelling in comfort and style this summer. Thieves here got away with a Passport travel trailer worth $40,000 and a boat trailer you’d have to sink $10,000 in to to launch with it. Provincial police are investigating a pair of un-petty crimes the past two weekends. Overnight Saturday […]
MUSKOKA — A push to get more Muskokans vaccinated continues. After months struggling to get more testing and vaccination sites, the health unit is pulling out all the stops as it increases walk-in traffic and puts on pop-up clinics in even remote community locations. The latest initiative started this past Monday in Gravenhurst and continued […]