Today is election today. If you haven’t already voted by absentee ballot, you can vote in person today at your Michigan polling location through eight P-M this evening. If you are an island resident, that’s your township hall of course. On island ballots are contested primary elections for our state House seat, our County board […]

On the COVID-19 front, a steady flow of new cases were added to the tally over the weekend. 735 on Saturday and 423 yesterady. A total of seven new deaths. That brings pandemic totals to 82,779 reported cases and 6,203 deaths. As on Friday, the state had classed 60,022 cases. Taking into account deaths, that […]

Lots of discussion in the media this morning about what needs to be done to get back to school come September. TV stations in Detroit and Grand Rapids hosted a virtual town hall yesterday about that during which that state’s chief medical officer said back to school in person is possible if people across Michigan […]

Governor Whitmer is reversing course and locking things back down in our region and the UP. The new restrictions close bars where more than 70% of the sales come from alcohol and limit gatherings to 10 people indoors and 100 people outside. The governor cited so-called “super-spreader” events in Lansing and Ann Arbor downstate and […]

Here’s the latest from the Health Center on the recent positive COVID-19 test: The Health Department of Northwest Michigan has confirmed with the Beaver Island Rural Health Center that contact tracing with the person who recently tested positive for the active COVID-19 virus has been completed. The individual left the island via personal transportation following […]

Yesterday, the Health Center reported another positive COVID-19 test—only the second during the course of the crisis. The Center has confirmed to us that they are working with the Health Department of Northwest Michigan on tracing contacts and getting those contacts tested. We’ll pass along additional information on this as we get it with posts […]