Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — It couldn’t last. Unseasonable weather is about to turn to seasonal weather again this weekend — beginning overnight Friday and lasting into Sunday. Environment Canada issued a “special weather statement” Thursday afternoon at 4 p.m. for Bracebridge – Gravenhurst, Huntsville – Baysville, Port Carling – Port Severn, the Town […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Hard-hit business owners have a sense of humour. They miss the walk-in Christmas customers they had last year as BIAs aren’t bustling with busy shoppers scurrying about with bundles of parcels under their arms. And Santa hasn’t been seen driving his reindeer down main drags greeting gaggles of giggling […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The local cases are down locally, but have hit a record provincially today. While Simcoe had 36 new corona reports (none in Muskoka) Ontario saw 1,983 people test positive, with 35 people dying. That includes 515 in Peel, 496 in Toronto and 208 in York Region. Quebec says it […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — A fatal watercraft accident this summer has led to serious charges yesterday against a Muskoka Lakes Township man. Provincial police said Wednesday Dec. 9 that Charles McNair, 58, was charged with Dangerous Operation Causing Death CC 320.13(3). The OPP say that after a five-month investigation involving the Provincial Traffic Operations unit, they […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Three paramedics are self-isolating after one of them tested positive for COVID-19. The District of Muskoka said in a release late this afternoon that the paramedic is recovering at home with symptoms and is self-isolating for a 14-day period. They say that at this time, the case is believed […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — As COVID cases look to skyrocket over Christmas, Muskoka’s top health official says there are “likely” more cases in the district than we know. Eighty-five per cent of the region’s coronavirus cases the past two days are under investigation by the health unit as to their cause. That’s 14 […]
GEORGIAN BAY — A driver in an early morning accident today survived without injury. Provincial police from Bracebridge say that on Dec. 9, at 12:35 a.m., officers responded to a public report of a single vehicle collision on Twelve Mile Bay Road in Georgian Bay Township. Police arrived and after a investigating charged 25-year-old Emma-Louise […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As Canada today approved a Pfizer vaccine to begin distribution possibly next week, local cases jumped to 61. They include another man and woman from Gravenhurst and Muskoka Lakes, respectively. The man, aged 35-64, contracted it through close contact; and the woman, who is between ages of 45 and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com DWIGHT — The party’s on Saturday … and Santa wins by a nose. His visit to Erika’s Bakery —10 a.m. to 1 p.m. — will have a happy ending thanks to the return of Rudolph, says Tanya Grainger who runs the store with her sister. She told MuskokaTODAY.com that “everyone is […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com A recent Rotary coat drive was an early Christmas gift for many. Muskoka service clubs collected and handed out hundreds of free winter covers through Fabricare, which cleaned and did the distribution at their cleaning centres in Gravenhurst, Bracebridge and Huntsville in late November. And while not all the adult parkas […]
MUSKOKA — It may be better to give than receive at this time of year. But when it comes to share and share-alike, local hospitals say thanks … but no thanks. Your “thoughtful gifts … also carry a level of risk to our staff and physicians that is not advisable,” says Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare CEO […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Two Muskoka men were airlifted to Toronto with life-altering injuries this afternoon after truck hit a tree on Manitoba Street near High Falls Road. A third local man remains in hospital. Police are investigating the factors that influenced this collision including impaired driving. They say that on Dec. 8, at 3:15 p.m., witnesses […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Forget a green Christmas. We’re “likely” in for a red Christmas in two weeks, says the region’s top health official. And don’t count on RVH’s deep freeze to save residents by then — or any time soon after that. Dr. Charles Gardner said this afternoon that’s Simcoe and Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The vaccine can’t come fast enough. With 46 new COVID cases today — including two more in Huntsville — the region is already at 215 this week after 231 last week. And an unusual 44 of those cases are “under investigation” with no indication of their cause. The other […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — A man arrested here Friday on drug charges was a “violent and dangerous” suspect wanted in a September stabbing in Toronto. City police were still on the lookout for Cyrus Alaei, 22, late last week when on Friday Dec. 4 OPP on patrol in Huntsville say they noticed a […]
MUSKOKA — Tis the season to be caught impaired behind the wheel, police report. On Friday Dec. 4, at 5:24 a.m., police in central Muskoka responded to a report from motorists of a single vehicle collision on Ecclestone Drive, west of Muskoka Beach Road in Bracebridge. Officers arrived and after investigating charged 35-year-old Aaron Austin, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — An explosion of cases today sees 1,925 people in Ontario with COVID, including five people in Muskoka. In Simcoe and Muskoka the health unit reports 171 for the past three days of Friday, Saturday and Sunday — an average of 51 per day. See the full list at https://www.simcoemuskokahealth.org/MicroSites/Media/Health%20Stats/Instant%20Atlas/COVIDlist/COVID_DownloadableData_20201207.html […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Celebrate the 12 days of Christmas with a dozen carols recently recorded recently in a informal concert at Trinity United Church. Danny McCoy, their multi-talented minister of music, got out his fake book and “improvised” on the Bechstein grand piano, using the sheet music in the video “just for […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Dap Thach has always had a love of trains and all things railway. Maybe it goes back to getting a train set for Christmas. So when he was thought about a festive way to spice up the corner unit of his new DTA accounting office in the Ing Building, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — A Gravenhurst man, aged 65-79, is under investigation after testing positive for COVID in Friday’s health unit accounting. This after Taylor Chiropractic informed patients Thursday Dec. 3 that it had been advised by Public Health that it had been exposed to case of COVID. They say it was not […]