COVID-19
LANSING, Mich. - Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) are urging Michiganders to get tested for COVID-19 upon returning from Spring Break in an effort to help slow the spread of COVID-19.
Students and families traveling across Michigan, to other states or out of the country risk being exposed to and carrying COVID-19 with them. This in turn could fuel outbreaks within their households and the communities where they live or visit.
In efforts to make testing easier for travelers, the state is offering 37 pop-up sites located throughout Michigan as part of the special testing program.
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Dec 22, 2020
TRAVERSE CITY â Four area school districts remain on the stateâs list of ongoing COVID-19 outbreaks.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services released data Monday showing Kingsley, Glen Lake, Suttons Bay and Leland as experiencing an ongoing outbreak of the virus. Three of those date back nearly a month.
Kingsley Superintendent Keith Smith said his district still is recovering from an outbreak that took out 10 members of the high school football team, both student-athletes and coaches, in late November. Kingsley has a total of 16 confirmed school-associated cases since the beginning of the school year, none of which are active, Smith said.
Dec 21, 2020
Parents and children leave the Montessori at Glenn Loomis Elementary School last spring.Record-Eagle file photo/Jan-Michael Stump/
TRAVERSE CITY â Construction on a new Montessori school in Traverse City might be months away, but the work to put shovels in the ground is moving forward.
Traverse City Area Public Schools teachers, students and families say they have tried to fit a square peg into a round hole for decades and that the Montessori School at Glenn Loomis was not built to support a Montessori education.
A new school on Franke Road is designed to do just that.
Christine Thomas-Hill, associate superintendent of finance and operations, said a presentation to update board trustees on the progress, including interior designs, will happen Jan. 6. The bid for the $23.5 million project is set for Jan. 18, and the board is expected to give final approval in March.