Author Archives: Laura Hampshire
New Market Opening In Port Severn
A new market will be opening this spring in Port Severn. The Bressette House Market will be located on Lone Pine Road and open every Tuesday, starting May 18 to Oct. 5. It will be a great addition to ...
Apr 05, 2021
Street Sweeping Begins In Wasaga Beach
Street sweeping and sand clean-up is expected to begin in Wasaga Beach this week. It will take approximately five to six weeks to complete all of the streets in town. Once the sweeping operations have...
Apr 05, 2021
Dunlop Street Construction Continues
Construction workers will be back on Dunlop Street as early as today for some finishing touches and repair work to the recent Streetscape Project. Work will begin at Five Points, on the north side of ...
Apr 05, 2021 City of Barrie
Provincewide Emergency Brake: Week One
It's week one of the so-called provincewide Emergency Brake. The Ontario government says the decision was made as a result of an alarming surge in case numbers and COVID-19 hospitalizations, with the ...
Apr 05, 2021
It's Easter Monday: What's Open/Closed?
Today is Easter Monday, also known as Bright Monday, Renewal Monday, Wet Monday, and Dyngus Day---- the Monday immediately after Easter Sunday. It is observed by many Christian groups, but primarily b...
Apr 05, 2021 Somewhere in the world today... / CC
Barrie Police Investigating Armed Robbery
Police are investigating an armed robbery in Barrie. It happened just after 2 this morning at the Circle K convenience store on St Vincent Street at Penetang, where police say a man entered the store,...
Apr 01, 2021
Great Easter Egg Hunt Returns!
The Great Easter Egg Hunt is returning to downtown Collingwood. Starting today, you can download your egg counting form by clicking here, then head out and count the eggs that the Easter Bunny has hid...
Apr 01, 2021
SCDSB Launches First Student Census
The Simcoe County District School Board is holding its first-ever student census. It says the confidential survey will be used to collect identity-based student data so that systemic barriers can be i...
Apr 01, 2021
April Fool's Flurries?
The weather today is going to seem like an April Fool's Day joke... It is calling for high winds and flurries this morning, with a high of minus 1, well below the normal high for this time of year, wh...
Apr 01, 2021 Mashtrelo
COVID-19 Outbreak On RVH’s Cardiac Renal Unit
Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) in consultation with the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, has declared a COVID-19 outbreak on the Cardiac Renal Inpatient unit. Three patients with a li...
Apr 01, 2021