Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The sudden “resignation” last week of the Pines administrator “comes as a bit of a shock” to those who were “very pleased with the job Kim Landry has done.” Landry resigned effective Tuesday, Feb. 2, the same day as the health unit lifted its latest outbreak at the LTC […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — COVID case counts are back up locally and provincially Sunday the day before students return to indoor classes and Ontario moves to re-open more businesses. Simcoe-Muskoka reported 43 cases — an increase of 8 over Saturday — bringing the regional total to 5,770. Public Health Ontario did not differentiate […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSOKA — Monday schools will open. The following Monday more businesses will be able to open. That’s part of the province’s plan to be announced Monday by Premier Doug Ford as Ontario’s COVID case numbers dipped again Saturday. According to Public Health Ontario (PHO) today, 1,388 people still tested positive and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Local cases may be down more than 100 this week, but it’s too early to let down your guard with two men and a woman in Muskoka reported with COVID today. And three more variant finds in the North Bay Parry Sound, Sudbury and Porcupine health units. The trio […]
HUNTSVILLE — Two Huntsville residents charged Feb. 1 — and ordered not to associate — were arrested again Feb. 3 charged with their second drug offences after a police chase Wednesday. Police say that on Feb. 3 the OPP’s Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) spotted the pair travelling in a vehicle together contrary to […]
GRAVENHURST — Police arrested a Bracebridge man and are looking for a suspect who fled after a stolen car landed in the snowbank just after midnight Wednesday. At 12:30 p.m. officers were dispatched to a single vehicle collision on Hwy. 11 southbound, near Highway 118 in Gravenhurst. They say witnesses had observed the vehicle weaving […]
RAMARA — Police are looking for a missing bird and possible suspect after pet hawk was reported stolen Wednesday. They are investigating the theft of a pet Ferruginous Hawk from a Ramara residence. On Feb. 3 between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., the hawk disappeared from outside the home. One-year-old “Arsenal” was reportedly securely tethered […]
HUNTSVILLE — An overnight break-in at a home here Monday has police looking for help. On Feb. 1 police were called to a residence at the north end of the town for a break and enter. They say that 3 a.m. an unknown person or persons gained entry by forcing open the front door causing […]
ORILLIA — An Orillia man who was caught holding a bag of meat after being pursued by the store owner has now been charged. Police say they arrested and charged a shoplifter with theft and recovering numerous stolen items. The say just after noon that back on Jan. 3, officers received a phone call from […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As kids and parents prepare for indoor classes, 6 families are planning funerals today for loved ones who died of COVID. The number of dead rose to 164 in health unit reporting Thursday as a further 58 corona cases emerged — all in Simcoe. None were in Muskoka. But […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — With news that Muskoka schools will re-open for classes Monday, Feb. 8, Simcoe-Muskoka is reporting 36 new COVID cases today. Two of them are men in Muskoka: One was said by the health unit earlier to be from an outbreak Jan. 22 at Muskoka Shores in Gravenhurst, and reported […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The health unit reports 36 new COVID cases Tuesday. And 51 people have now tested positive for the UK B.1.1.7 variant. That’s 32 more than reported yesterday. An additional 94 cases have screened positive and are awaiting confirmation. And 5 more people in Simcoe have died. None of the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Waking up today is like the movie Groundhog Day. Instead of worrying about the daily dip in temperature — to decide whether to go outside — people hanging on the corona case numbers feel doomed to repeat at least six more weeks of the deadly virus. Confusing COVID counts […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A woman who claimed she was injured in a hospital parking lot altercation with police on Halloween has lost her bid to have her complaint investigated further by the SIU after they say she refused them access to her medical records. Special Investigations Unit director Joseph Martino ended the investigation into the “interaction” […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Barrie remains the hotbed of local COVID cases and epicentre of the UK variant in Ontario. With 129 regional cases reported since Friday — mostly in Barrie with none in Muskoka — two GTA retirement homes are banning visitors from Barrie where the UK variant is among the highest […]
HUNTSVILLE — Police charged three people Friday in an afternoon traffic stop. The OPP’s Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) was doing an investigation into drug trafficking. At 4:15 p.m. they say officers stopped a vehicle on Centre Street, with the assistance of the Huntsville OPP, arresting the three and finding a quantity of drugs: […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Having a heart attack? If you’re in Orillia and you go to the hospital, you’ll be immediately shipped to Barrie’s RVH. Patients who present at Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital (OSMH) with heart attack symptoms will now be transported directly to Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre’s (RVH) Cardiac Intervention Unit […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The residents of Muskoka are being “very vigilant” in keeping COVID and its variant at bay. “And we hope they keep it that way,” Dr. Colin Lee, Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit’s (SMDHU) associate medical officer of health, said today. In a Friday afternoon news briefing on the UK […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — With Canada frowning on foreign flights due to rising variant fears, new numbers today in Simcoe-Muskoka show a man in Bracebridge and 36 people in Barrie among 65 new COVID cases today. And one more death in Simcoe. The Bracebridge resident — first diagnosed and reported for yesterday — […]
LAKE OF BAYS — Firefighters battled heavy fire and frigid temperatures last night to bring a house fire blaze under control last night. The Huntsville/Lake of Bays Fire Department responded to a report of a structure fire on Paint Lake Road at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28. Crews from Baysville Station 40 with assistance from […]