Category Archives: Orillia News
Family Day Events In Barrie
The City of Barrie is hosting a free outdoor Family Day event at the Barrie Community Sports Complex on Nursery Road in Midhurst. They're offering activities like skating, tobogganing, snowshoeing, an...
Feb 20, 2023 Source: City Of Barrie
Family Day - What's Open
This is the family day provincial holiday, so many businesses and services will be closed, or be operating on reduced hours. Schools, banks, and provincial and municipal government offices are closed....
Feb 20, 2023
Four People Sent To Hospital Following Collision In Tay Township
Southern Georgian Bay OPP are investigating a collision that sent four people to hospital on Sunday evening. One person had to be transported to a Toronto-area hospital via ORNGE air ambulance. The co...
Feb 20, 2023 OPP Photo via Twitter.
Leacock Museum Holds Poetry Contest
Budding poets are invited to enter a poetry contest held by Orillia's Leacock Museum. The annual K. Valerie Connor Memorial Poetry Celebration contest has over $2,000 in prize money. It's open to subm...
Feb 19, 2023 (Image via orillia.ca)
Name This Marine Muncher
There's a contest underway in Ramara, to name some unusual machinery. The Lagoon City Parks and Waterways Commission has a couple of weed harvestors and a barge, which it uses to keep canals weed free...
Feb 18, 2023 Photo: Township of Ramara
New Photos Released In Wasaga Beach Abduction
The OPP have released new photos of suspects in the kidnapping of Elnaz Hajtamiri from Wasaga Beach just over a year ago. There are two men and a woman who police belive are residents of the GTA. The ...
Feb 16, 2023 Suspects 1 & 2
Source: OPP
Leacock Museum's new exhibit 'A Leacock Love Story' runs until Aug 31st
The Leacock Museum is reopening for the season just in time for Valentine's Day with the new exhibit A Leacock Love Story, beginning on Feb. 10, 2023. The exhibit, which will run until Aug. 31st, expl...
Feb 15, 2023
Lockdown and Search at Beaver Creek Institution
On February 14, 2023, a lockdown was put in place in the medium-security unit at Beaver Creek Institution to enable staff members to conduct an exceptional search. The search was ordered to ensure the...
Feb 14, 2023 Beaver Creek Institution In Gravenhurst
Orillia OPP Vehicles Now Have Automated Licence Plate Recognition and In-Car-Camera Systems
The Orillia Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has now installed and activated the Automated Licence Plate Recognition (ALPR) and In-Car-Camera systems in all patrol vehicles. The OPP h...
Feb 14, 2023
Suspect Wanted In Connection with Three Robberies In Barrie
Barrie Police is trying to identify a male suspect who is believed to be responsible for three robbery occurrences that have taken place in the city of Barrie since January 17th. In that occurrence, a...
Feb 13, 2023