Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — You gotta have heart. Lots and lots of hearts. Residents and businesses are showing their love for others at this trying time with “Window Hearts.” In gesture of solidarity with the world and their community, the universal symbol is popping up large and small, red and blue. In one […]
MUSKOKA — Public sector salaries for various government employees were released Friday by the province of Ontario. They provide disclosures for all sectors and seconded employees from last year. The list provides information on all public sector employees who were paid $100,000 or more in 2019 and are subject to the Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A Good Samaritan has emerged today to help those self-isolating. Adam Crockatt is spearheading a small group effort to run errands for those who may be housebound by the coronavirus. Gravenhurst Caretagion 2020, which began Friday, is “a zero-contact” initiative that came out of a conversation Dr. Adam MacLennan. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Gravenhurst’s mayor is “keeping in the loop” while under self-isolation this week. Paul Kelly and his wife, Sue, returned to their Morrison Lake home March 10 and he expects to be back on the job next Wednesday, March 25. The couple were 10 days in Saint Martin and flew […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — People are coming together to stay apart. Slowly … if surely. Families are even walking in staggered lines. And it’s easier to do. District streets are open — if quieter. Many hours are being limited across the board — though YIG grocery stores are restricting their first hour at […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Patients and visitors to Muskoka’s two hospitals who may have symptoms of the coronavirus are being segregated in separate waiting spaces as they wait further full assessment. While Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare waits provincial approval to partner in a COVID-19 screening centre, its two sites at South Muskoka Memorial Hospital […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHRST — Advance work Thursday and Friday at Brock Street and Bethune Drive in Gravenhurst is underway as CN Rail plans to move the safety rail arms (wigwags) about a dozen feet closer to the tracks Monday. Dan Dodd, a track supervisor, said on site today, March 19, that it’s part […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com TORONTO — Ontario has reported its second death related to COVID-19 — a man in his 50s who died in Oakville. And why is that important? And why is social distancing so critical? Because — officials say it may be a community spread case. Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s chief medical officer […]
GRAVENHURST — Drivers and pedestrians are reminded that the intersection of Bethune Drive and Brock Street will be closed Monday, March 23, for CN Rail repairs. Work will be taking place on the safety traffic arms. Anyone wishing to cross Bethune are advised to use either Phillip Street to the south or Winewood Avenue to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — A public drive-through assessment clinic to test for COVID-19 opened here this morning. At 11 a.m. a centre located in the Kiwanis building on Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital’s campus started screening visitors. Everyone — including walk-ins — will be screened, and those who meet all criteria will be swabbed. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — A Huntsville woman and man from Mississauga will be bail court Thursday morning after a loaded handgun, drugs and cash were seized in a police stop here early this afternoon. Provincial police say that on Wednesday, March 18, the Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit conducted an investigation that resulted […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Orillia’s CAO is under fire for being on the job Monday a day after flying home from the Cayman Islands and on the same day a man in his 60s went into Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital with confirmed case of the cornavirus. Social media is full of criticism after Gayle […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BARRIE — From Barrie to Orillia — the coronavirus is spreading north as Ontario sees a surge in COVID-19 daily. The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) said Wednesday that it is “following up with known contacts of its fifth confirmed case of COVID-19.” They said March 18 that a man […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The question now is not what is closed — but what is left open. With daily reports, news releases and signs of closure popping up on storefronts everywhere, the growing community lockdown is having affecting all aspects of life. For safety reasons, COVID-19 has forced communities to redefine their […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Ontario’s first death linked to the coronavirus nevery “presented” in Muskoka. “We know nothing about this,” Allyson Snelling, Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare’s corporate communications officer told MuskokaTODAY.com on Tuesday. Confusion earlier that day around national news that a “Muskoka” man in his 70s was COVID’s first victim in the province. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Natalie Bubela, head of the local hospitals, has been working at home this week helping them handle the COVID-19 crisis. As the coronavirus is expected to escalate in the coming weeks and breach the borders of Muskoka, the CEO of the Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare is recovering from surgery. She […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Frontline staff at Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital (OSMH) are looking to stock up as the corona fight stretches into an all-out war. It is more important now than ever before that the hospital has the backing of the community, says a release Wednesday. “For those of you with the stability […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — MPP Norm Miller said today he wants to “thank everyone who has rearranged their lives to take extra precautions to slow the spread of this virus.” He didn’t just single out local health officials and medical staffs, but also staffs in grocery stores, pharmacies, suppliers, truck drivers and the […]
Keep your distance. Sounds simple, but a lot of people just aren’t getting it. Despite repeated daily warnings from health officials across the country, around the world and even specific advice from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, not everyone is getting the message about social-distancing to combat COVID-19. Or at least they’re not heeding it. It’s […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Confusion and concern surround the Ontario’s first death related to COVID-19. People in Central Ontario are worried about exactly where the deceased resided and with whom he might have come in close contact with. Early reports this morning linked the man, first said to be in his 70s, to […]