Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — If you needed any more proof that the pandemic is going to make winter worse, latest local stats confirm everyone’s worst fears. Today the health unit reports 86 positive tests over the weekend. Two of them are women from Muskoka. One is aged 45-64 in Bracebridge. The other is […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — It was a dark and stormy night …. “It was a crazy day, all day and night,” said one person on social media. Yesterday’s winds whipped up a nasty night and day for residents across much of southern Ontario Sunday as wild gusts knocked down their usual trees and […]
HUNTSVILLE — The driver of a car that left the road and hit a pole faces numerous driving and theft-related charges Saturday. Police say they responded to a single motor vehicle collision on West St., Huntsville. They say the vehicle had driven off the road into a ditch and hit a pole and that he […]
HUNTSVILLE — An “unwanted” customer yesterday led to an impaired woman being charged with opioid possession. Police were called to a business on Hanes Road Sunday Nov. 15, where officers found a “highly intoxicated” female in the parking lot of Circle K convenience store. Dayna Lewis was arrested and an investigation resulted in the the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Here are two key numbers worth thinking about today, as Ontario’s COVID numbers fell four cases short of 1,400 today. In Simcoe 46 people tested positive for the coronavirus Friday (none in Muskoka). That’s the same number reported yesterday for the previous two days — Wednesday and Thursday. And […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — As COVID numbers soar nationwide, a Huntsville woman over age 80 is under investigation after testing positive the past two days. The health unit reports today 46 cases in the region, most in Essa (11) and Bradford-West Gwillimbury (15). They are among 1,575 today in Ontario and 1,365 in […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Schools here were put in a “hold and secure” yesterday afternoon after a report that a youth had “made concerning comments about potentially committing an act of violence at a local high school.” Police say they received information Wednesday Nov. 11 at 1:20 p.m. And that the affected schools were quickly placed into […]
Photos by Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com As remembrances go, today’s service at the Gravenhurst legion wasn’t large. But it loomed larger than life and death in the minds of those 14 present, those few who couldn’t resist showing up in person and by those thinking of them at home. Here’s a snap shot of the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Today was a day to remember. Sons and daughters lost to wars. Daughters and sons, moms and dads, friends lost to the coronavirus. Remembrance Day had more poignancy as Canadians paused for two minutes this morning. And rightlfully eerily fewer people in person. At the Harry Wray Branch #302 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Residents and visitors to Gravenhurst and Muskoka Lakes Township are being cautioned today about three confirmed blue-green algae blooms in local lakes. The health unit issued the warnings this morning, Nov. 11, for the west side of Kahshe Lake, in Gravenhurst; and the north end of Black Lake and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MACTIER — There’s no last minute landscaping or army cadet vigil tonight, as two local legions ready for Remembrance Day this eve. Bruce Henn and Shirley Ruttan — presidents of their respective Royal Canadian Legions in MacTier and Bracebridge — may differ in their commemorations tomorrow, but their sentiments are the […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A missing man who lived in Bracebridge is being sought by concerned family members. Police are asking the public for their assistance in locating 40-year-old Corey Martin. A transient, he was last known to reside in Bracebridge, but is also known to frequent London, Ont. Martin is described as 6-foot-1, with brown hair, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — An end to warm temperatures this week could see a spike in COVID cases says the local public health head. Dr. Charles Gardner said this afternoon the “pattern of transmission” is related to cooler Canadian seasonal climes as people congregate more indoors. And that could see Simcoe and Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — With Remembrance Day services limited in size this year due to COVID, most small memorials will have limited musical accompaniment. Perhaps a piper and a bugler to play Last Post — but like mostly recorded music. Here in Muskoka some musicians who normally would have been part of some […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Royal Canadian Legions are suffering in silence this week. Betty Smith, past president of Huntsville’s Branch 232, says just two of the eight local branches are holding small by-invitation only indoor services on Remembrance Day Nov. 11 due to COVID-19. Six have already been held, including in Huntsville yesterday. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Weekend weather may have been above average, but the COVID count was not. Since last Friday’s health unit report, 51 people regionally tested positive. None were in Muskoka. They are among 1,242 alone in Ontario today and 1,169 in Quebec. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit’s daily stats show that […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com What a weekend. A day to celebrate like crazy and a day to heal and look forward to tomorrow. Americans woke up this morning turning a frown upside down. Joe Biden is the president-elect and President Donald Trump is — well — history. It couldn’t have been a more perfect ending […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com UNITED STATES — It’s finally over and Joe Biden has 279 electoral college votes to win the U.S. presidency. After taking Pennsylvania late this morning he will become the 46th president of the United States, unseating Donald Trump who was fired by the majority of county. He has remained at 214 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — Police who may often look like they’re lying low or inactive caught up with some outstanding criminal activity this week in what they’re calling a “street sweep.” Which may account for a lot of police presence on your street the past three days. They say that Tuesday, Wednesday and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Thirteen new local COVID cases are part of more than 250,000 cases in Canada. Friday’s numbers in Simcoe bring to 1,497 the total in the health unit’s reporting region. Six people are in hospital. There were no cases in Musoka, Friday Nov. 6. Seven people today are from Barrie, […]