Author Archives: Bayshore News Team

A scary situation on a local school bus in Orillia, yesterday afternoon. The Packet and Times reports that a car collided with a school bus around 4 near Colbourne and Dallas. Three children on the bu...

Student doctors are getting a look at our communities and our hospitals this week. Four doctors-in-training are in Collingwood this week, five in Orillia and five in Owen Sound as part of Rural Medici...

The power is back on for more than 500 customers in the West Shore area. Yesterday afternoon a single-vehicle collision afternoon on Highway 11 sent three people to hospital and knocked out power, acc...

Monday marks the begriming of ROMP week at Orillia's Soldiers Memorial Hospital. That is the Rural Ontario Medical Program where 1st and 2nd year medical students spent time at the local hospital to e...

This is the begriming of Safe Kids Week in Orillia. This year the Safe Kids Week focus is all about car seats. Car seats have changed a lot over the years and their presence has helped reduce deaths a...

It was 26 years ago Tuesday, that Barrie was hit with a killer tornado that claimed 8 lives injured 150 other people and caused millions of dollars in property damage. Environment Canada Senior Crimin...

It was a day of celebration Sunday at the Orillia YMCA as a two million dollar expansion to the building was officially opened. Y General Manager Gilda Evely says its taken more than five years to pla...

Tuesday is World No Tobacco day and to mark the occasion, the Simcoe Muskoka District health unit has announced the winners of this years Tobacco-Free Champion Awards. Lislie Gordon is the Tobacco Pro...

Four area groups have received a combined total of $95,014 in grant money from the Healthy Communities Fund for 2011-2012 through the Ministry of Health Promotion and Sport. Simcoe North MPP Garfield ...

A Canadian woman killed in England has ties to our area. 34-year old Angela Hoyt was found dead in her home on Tuesday night. She had apparently been strangled. Hoyt worked for the Canadian Red Cross....