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, […]
HUNTSVILLE — Police are cracking down again on fraudsters. After a Ramara contractor was charged this week, OPP in Huntsville initiated fraud investigations Sept. 7 concerning an air conditioning unit that was listed for sale in July on a Facebook buy-and-sell group. As a result Alexandra “Alee” King, 29, of Huntsville was arrested Oct. 31 […]
GRAVENHURST — A man here is in custody tonight facing a bail hearing in the morning on child pornography charges. David Ashe, 71, faces four counts of possession of child pornography CC 163.1(4), accessing child pornography CC 163.1(4.1) and making, printing, publishing or possessing for the purpose of publication any child pornography CC 163.1(2). Members […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The coronavirus continues to get worse in Simcoe and Muskoka. Two Huntsville women are among 15 new cases today and 132 this week. The health unit says the four-day total is the highest weekly total since the start of the pandemic and the third straight week or record numbers. […]
UPDATE- Luke Pombiere was located earlier today and is in good health. Huntsville OPP would like to thank the public for their assistance. LAKE OF BAYS — The public is being asked to be on the lookout for a missing person here. Provincial police are asking for help in finding 38-year-old Lake of Bays resident […]
ORILLIA — A local contractor who took deposits then didn’t start work has been charged with fraud. Provincial police from the Orillia Crime Unit have arrested and charged the man with fraud in two separate investigations in Orillia. They say that on Aug. 28 and Sept. 28 the OPP undertook investigations in relation to alleged […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE — Another day another 17 cases of COVID in Simcoe. And none in Muskoka, reports Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit. They are among 987 people to test positive for the coronavirus Wednesday, Nov. 4. Quebec count was back in four digits at 1,029. Meanwhile, in Manitoba Health Minister Cameron Friesen […]
BRACEBRIDGE — A pick-up truck driver who collided with a larger truck carrying concrete this morning has died. Police say that just after 9 a.m., Wednesday Nov. 4, emergency crews responded to a motor vehicle collision involving the two trucks on Brackenrig Road, in Bracebridge. The 37-year-old male driver of the pick-up truck, who was alone […]
SIMCOE MUSKOKA — New public health restrictions on movements in and out of local long-term care homes have been issued by order of the region’s medical officer of health. As of yesterday, Tuesday Nov. 3, Dr. Charles Gardner says he will immediately restrict all indoor visits at long-term care homes to one essential visitor at […]
GRAVENHURST — Middle of the night drivers yesterday who spotted a truck bouncing off the Hwy. 11 median led police to stop and charge the vehicle operator with being impaired by drug. OPP say that on Nov. 3 at 2:30 a.m. police received multiple 911 complaints from northbound motorists in Gravenhurst, near Sparrow Lake Route […]
ROSSEAU — A Bracebridge man faces impaired driving charges in the death of the head of Rosseau Lake College who was struck while out for his morning run yesterday. Provincial police said today, Nov. 3, that Robert Carreau, 43, of of Rosseau died after being hit at 6:30 a.m. Monday, on Hwy. 141 in Seguin […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — A “rapidly” growing number of cases in Simcoe and Muskoka sees 29 new people with COVID-19. All mostly in south Simcoe. None were in Muskoka Tuesday, Nov. 3. This as the health unit today also issued an order for “long-term care” facilities only to restrict visitors to only two […]
In Loving Memory Mark Joseph Prindiville Passed away peacefully in his sleep at home in Haliburton on Sunday, November 1, 2020, at the age of 58. Faithful husband of Carol Ann (nee Milne). Dear father of Dustin (Kayla), Jasmine, Tara-Lyn (Scott) Theakston, grandfather of Declan, Dexter, and a granddaughter due in the spring of 2021. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com America has voted. And to the victor today go the spoils of four years. Americans will either roll back the clock to Donald Trump or move forward with Joe Biden’s new years’ resolutions. The United States election is a world of concern. Ballots cast south of the border may be counted […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — COVID has now spread to a resident at the Granite Ridge LTC, one of 75 people in the region who tested positive over the weekend. After a staff member tested positive last week at the Bethune Drive retirement home, the health unit reports today a second institutional outbreak (respiratory) […]