Jan 12, 2021
Keweenaw County Sheriff
The Keweenaw County Sheriffâs Office uses snowmobiles like the one shown above to track down crashes like the one that occured on Jan. 2 in Keweenaw County. Sutton Beck lost control of her snowmobile and struck a tree.
A personal injury snowmobile crash that occurred on Jan. 2 has become fatal, according to a release from the Keweenaw County Sheriff’s office.
At 5:10 p.m. on Jan. 2, deputies from the Sheriff’s Office responded to the snowmobile crash on Trail No. 3, near Gratiot Lake Road, where 25-year-old Sutton Beck, from Hartford Wisconsin, was traveling southbound. She lost control of her vehicle, left the trail and struck a tree.
CENTRAL A woman has died from injuries received in a Jan. 2 snowmobile crash in Central, the Keweenaw County Sheriff’s Office said. The office reported
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MARQUETTE Ishpeming Public Schools has revised its 2021 Back To School Preparedness and Response Plan to continue dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We want to give flexibility to teachers to have the option of teaching remotely, either from their home or from their classroom,” IPS Superintendent Carrie Meyer said during Monday’s board of education meeting. “It previously was in the plan that they would report to their classrooms, but with the COVID pandemic, our team felt that it was best to give options.”
The board voted to provide that flexibility in the plan as well as another update regarding remote learning and connectivity at Ishpeming High/Middle School.
Staff at Aspirus Keweenaw Hospital in the Upper Peninsula will be joining Michigan’s largest nurses’ union.
The health care workers tallied their mail-in votes this week, with 35 voting in favor of joining the Michigan Nurses Association, and 17 voting against.
Kelly Engle, who’s been a nurse at the hospital for 10 years, says nurses and administrators alike were overwhelmed in the spring when decisions had to be made about caring for COVID-19 patients.
“Their plates were full,” she said of administrators. “And I just felt like nurses you know, not just in our hospital, but everywhere suddenly really needed a seat at that doggone table.”
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MARQUETTE Dickinson County Healthcare System in Iron Mountain announced on Facebook that intensive care unit nurse Pam Faccio received the first COVID-19 vaccine in the county on Thursday.
Dr. Donald Kube, chief of staff, and Dr. Charles Papp, an emergency medicine physician, also were given the vaccine that day.
Aspirus Health on Thursday announced it received its first allocation of vaccine and has started vaccinating its employees. Aspirus’ first shipment of vaccine was delivered to Aspirus Keweenaw Hospital in Laurium.
Aspirus officials noted it did not receive enough doses for all the employees who wish to be vaccinated, explaining it is following guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide the vaccine first to employees at the greatest risk, such as those regularly providing care to patients with COVID-19.