Author Archives: Laura Hampshire

The Orillia Farmers' Market is now online! You can visit the market in person each Saturday, or shop our virtual market during the week and enjoy curbside pick-up. For more details or to shop online, ...

Health officials are reporting three more cases of the UK variant of COVID-19 in the province. Ontario's Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Barbara Yaffe said at her daily briefing yesterda...

Collingwood General & Marine Hospital (CGMH) is celebrating its first baby of 2021. Benjamin Levi Hannan was born to parents Jessica and Ben on January 1st at 6:39pm, weighing 7lbs and 1.2 ounces....

Southern Georgian Bay OPP have arrested two suspected impaired drivers, after separate incidents on New Year's Day. Just after midnight on January 1, 2021, an officer was responding to a call in Tiny ...

The City of Barrie will be performing snow removal operations in the downtown area during the overnight hours for the next days. It says all vehicles should be removed from metered parking by 8 p.m. o...

As part of the Ontario government's lockdown to stop the spread of COVID-19, elementary and secondary students will not return to school in person today as planned. Instead, elementary and secondary s...

Tyler Donald Scriver is the fist baby of the New Year at Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital. He and his mom, Brittany Scriver of Woodville, are said to be doing well. Tyler arrived at 5:19 am on Janu...

RVH has welcomed the first baby of 2021! Arriving at 8:49 a.m. on January 1, Midhurst residents and first-time parents Lilia DaSilva Gouvella and Ryan Furtado welcomed their baby boy Diego, weighing 6...

Orillia OPP is looking for the public's help to locate a missing man. Police say 40 year old Kevin Wilson was last seen in Orillia at 11pm on New Year's Eve. He is believed to be in the Queens Quay ar...

A COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at the Town of the Blue Mountains, after three Town employees tested positive for the virus. The Grey Bruce Health Unit and the Town would like to emphasize that ...