Mar 31, 2021 | News
Over the 18-day period from March 10 – March 28, 2021, 46 confirmed COVID-19 cases have been added in Luce, Mackinac, Alger, and Schoolcraft counties. Probable cases have risen by 37, for a total increase of 83. For comparison, the 21 day period from February 3 –...
Mar 24, 2021 | News
By Carol Stiffler At age 13, Jared Gerwatowski is already a skilled fisherman and an avid outdoorsman. The Newberry teen bagged a 44-inch, 30-pound musky over the summer, a whopper that took him 30 minutes to reel in. He fishes as often as he can, preferring it even...
Mar 22, 2021 | News
Could you be living with diabetes and not know it? Over 30,000 Yoopers currently live with diabetes. Another estimated 7,500 people in the U.P. are living with diabetes and DON’T know they have it. Type 2 diabetes, which is the type of diabetes that 95% of people in...
Mar 10, 2021 | News
By Carol Stiffler When Patrice Sawa-Bedford, a teacher at Tahquamenon Area Schools, was recently directly exposed to COVID-19, she was ordered to stay home to quarantine. Days passed by as she waited and wondered if she’d become ill. “I was five days out from the...
Mar 3, 2021 | News
By Carol Stiffler A 10-year-old girl is dead after a shooting in Lakefield Township on Tuesday, February 23. Michigan State Police troopers responded to a 911 call from a home in Lakefield around 8 p.m. that evening. Investigation by the officers revealed the girl’s...
Mar 3, 2021 | News
By Carol Stiffler Information has changed many times during the present pandemic. And now that there are three vaccines approved in the United States – with the recent addition of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine – there’s even more...
