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While the bridge is closed, motorists must wait. Sometimes these are commuters who live and work on opposite sides of the Straits of Mackinac, while in one case last week school buses filled with students found themselves stuck.
MACKINAW CITY, Mich. (WJMN) -- The Mackinaw City community rallied together to help more than 200 elementary school children from Pickford who became stranded in the area after falling ice forced the closure of the Mackinac Bridge. "What I witnessed tonight was the power of community!" State Rep. John Damoose said in a Facebook post. [...]
9 & 10 News March 16, 2021 A number of counties have some kind of surcharge which is paid on month phone bills. But the FCC says some are not using that money properly. Dispatch centers across Michigan and the country rely on funding from 911 surcharges. But the FCC says some states aren’t using that money properly and want to narrow the window on what it can be used for. Grand Traverse County Central Dispatch says that could greatly impact their operation. “We have several items that we fund through the 911 surcharge in that way. We do fund our radio system, we do fund our infrastructure...
A small Piper plane loaded with COVID-19 vaccines and a six-person team took off Tuesday morning from the airport in St. Ignace, headed for a landing strip on Bois Blanc Island in the Straits of Mackinac. Its mission was to deliver vaccines to the residents of the remote, 34-square-mile island in Lake Huron, southeast of its smaller but more famous neighbor, Mackinac Island. About 60 to 70 people typically live on Bois Blanc (pronounced Boblo) Island year-round, said Kerry Ott, a spokesperson for the LMAS District Health Department, which serves the 34,600 residents of four Upper Pen...