Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — As lower tier governments like Bracebridge toe the line on budgets in these tough times, the District of Muskoka is increasing yours. Two weeks ago Bracebridge councillors passed their “municipal budget and business plan” with “zero increase” while touting an “ambitious capital program.” Gravenhurst approved a 1.5 per cent […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — So the province posted this morning that the region had 15 COVID cases today. This afternoon the health unit shows its 41 — including a man in Georgian Bay. We’ve been here before over numbers, Ontario saying one thing and the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) correcting those […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — March may have come in like a lion, but it’s going out like a lamb. And if the mostly mild month is occasionally running hot and cold days and nights, that’s good for local maple syrup producers large and small. While full-scale production doesn’t seem to be what it […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Call it a health and safety meeting. Business advocates — “under strain and risk” — confronted the personal and professional challenges of COVID head-on in a virtual face-off with the region’s medical officer of health. Four Muskoka chamber of commerce executive directors met with Dr. Charles Gardner to “share […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Muskokans returned to COVID status today as a “third wave’ is confirmed. The three people — two from Muskoka Lakes and one from Huntsville — were under the age of 18 and ranged up to age 64. And were among 44 as reported Wednesday by the Simcoe Muskoka District […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — More vaccines, more people, more inoculations and more good news — finally. After weeks and months of concern in Muskoka over the pandemic and vaccine rollout, the arrival of additional — if limited — doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine is a small, but welcoming comfort to many Muskokans. Doctors […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Community members are saddened by the sudden and “tragic” death of another prominent business person in town. Dap Thach died at his home early yesterday morning. He was 48. The popular local accountant had just gotten up about 8 a.m. when he collapsed and died, said his father-in-law Sang […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As vaccinations ramp up today so do COVID cases in Simcoe with 71 more people testing positive. Muskoka had no new cases. But a new vaccine did reach Muskoka Tuesday, with the first of 360 doses of the AstraZeneca being handed out this week at the Algonquin and Cottage […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A pandemic milestone passed Sunday as the region had cases 7,000 and 7,001. Both were in Simcoe and among 120 reported Monday by the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU). A Lake of Bays man, 18-34, was among them. He is under investigation after reporting on Feb. 24 with […]
SIMCOE MUSKOKA — It was probably to be expected. As the province opened its vaccine booking centre at 8 a.m. this morning — and after weeks locally of difficulty getting said appointments or least of all on the waiting list — the local public health says they were left out of the online loop as […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — On Valentine’s Day your sweetheart would have seen 31 cases of COVID in Simcoe-Muskoka. Today, a month later, there are 50 cases. And in the past week — Sunday to Sunday — there have been 324 cases, shows a look at provincial numbers. Those eight days, March 7-14, cases […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A new business, a Good Samaritan and a close call. Downtown Gravenhurst avoided another near disaster Friday afternoon when a fire erupted out back in the laneway behind the new True North cannabis shop due to open on Muskoka Road south on Thursday. It’s was almost up in smoke […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Year 2 of the pandemic begins with no new cases in Muskoka — but 45 in Simcoe today. The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit says all of the cases for Thursday March 12 are south of the Severn River, including 1 each in Severn Township and Orillia. The health […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Two men caught with trout on Christmas were charged with illegal fishing. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) says the Huntsville residents were fined a total of $1,800 after getting caught fishing trout during the closed season. They say Clint Wood pleaded guilty and was fined $1,150 for angling brook trout […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Ross Ashforth’s recent passing late last month is being remembered by local horticulturalists. The former town treasurer and member of the Gravenhurst Horticultural Society (GHS) died Feb. 23 at the age of 95. He loved his home on Clairmont Road and lovingly tended to his garden in back, which […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — On National Pandemic Observance Day and as the region marked the one-year anniversary of its — and the province’s — first death today, Huntsville added three more COVID cases. That brings to 15 the number of cases in the town this week — and its total account in a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The health unit says this morning that as Ontario moves to four-month interval between the vaccine doses, all second dose appointments that were booked with shorter intervals are cancelled. They will provide details “in the near future” about how to book a new appointment for your second dose. The […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A bank lockdown yesterday afternoon ended after a man was charged with causing a disturbance and making phone threats after being asked to leave. Police say that on Wednesday March 10 at 4 p.m., they got a 911 call on Muskoka Road 118 West. A customer was told to leave after employees claim […]
PARRY SOUND-MUSOKA — Local social services can help house, feed and keep utilities on with more than $2.1 million from the province. MPP Norman Miller says in a release today that hard-hit residents suffering from COVID-19 fallout will benefit from in provincial funding to help keep vulnerable people in Parry Sound-Muskoka safe during COVID-19. The […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Two more people in Huntsville, two in Bracebridge and 35 in Simcoe amounted to 39 positive COVID tests in the region. And 37 of them are variants of concern, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health reports on its website today. The 4 Muskoka cases were all reported March 9 with […]