Author Archives: Bayshore News Team

An Innisfil youth is facing charges in connection to a house fire. Innisfil Fire and Rescue were called to a home in the area of St. John's Road and 7th Line Monday night around 11. The occupants...

Operation Northern Spotlight, a coordinated national effort to end human trafficking touched our borders recently. The effort saw police help ensure the safety of seven people who were in exploitive s...

An inmate who escaped from the Sudbury jail earlier this month and was thought to be in Orillia has been arrested. Police allege 29 year old Gaston Gagnon was involved in property crime while in the a...

Jason's No Frills has come through for kids and parents at Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital. Their annual August and September fundraising campaign netted more than $4,000 for the hospita...

It took another 24 hours for the unofficial elections results to come in. Harry Hughes is back for another term as Mayor in Oro-Medonte. The Township was one of 50 municipalities that experienced prob...

A wrong-way driver faces several charges after police say he intentionally struck three OPP cruisers. Early Sunda, OPP got a call about a motor vehicle going southbound in the northbound lanes of High...

An area senior is the latest victim of the so called grandparent scam. Police in Barrie say that on Wednesday, October 17th a 96 year old woman got a call from someone saying that her grandson was inv...

Unofficial results: https://www.orillia.ca/en/elections/results.aspx Steve Clarke will be back as Mayor for the City of Orillia. Clarke along with 6 of the 8 Councillors were re-elected to another ter...

Unofficial election results from Ramara Township give incumbent Basil Clarke the mayor's chair again, but just by 14 votes over Marg Sharpe. She was on the current council representing Ward 2. Sh...

Mike Burkett was eased into the mayor's chair for another four years in Severn Township. He was acclaimed, as was Deputy Mayor Jane Dunlop. Of note, in Ward 5, Sarah Valiquette-Thompson was the w...