Staff have seized more than $70,000 in contraband at Gravenhurst’s Beaver Creek Institution.  According to Correctional Service Canada, a package which included suspected tobacco, marijuana, and methamphetamine was on its way into the prison on April 10.  Inside the institution, officials estimate the contents of the package would have been valued...

The Parry Sound Area Founders Circle presented its annual Founders Choice Awards on April12.   Georgian Medical Aesthetics won the $10,000 top prize, and A Bushel & A Peck won the $5,000 secondary prize.  The Founders Circle is made up of community leaders, entrepreneurs, and business leaders who have invested funds...

West Parry Sound OPP is investigating multiple frauds that have occurred over the past month. According to Constable Brandon Charlebois, local officers have responded to 12 frauds and scams with losses totaling over $100,000. Several of these scams center around tax returns, specifically request to pay the Canada Revenue Agency with...

Parry Sound's first annual mental health symposium will feature information sessions from more than a dozen mental health professionals.  The event, hosted by Sound Youth Counselling and the Doc Rob Fund, will take place at the Parry Sound High School on May 4.  Colleen McLean, owner of Sound Youth Counselling, said...

Water levels will be higher this next week thanks to Friday’s “significant rainfall.”  That from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, which has issued a water safety bulletin for the Black, Burnt, Gull, Magnetawan, and Muskoka River watersheds.  Officials say the heavy downpours can cause flash-flooding, which could impact low-lying...

The Near North District School Board staff are making ‘heroic efforts’ to ensure the quality of care and engagement in learning is at a level students deserve, despite burnout and an increase in “emerging student behaviours”. That’s according to a statement from director of education Craig Myles, raising concerns about...