Huron County vaccine clinics will soon move to Huron Crest Plaza
Have taken place at Evangel Life Assembly of God church since January
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The Evangel Life Assembly of God church in Bad Axe the day of one of its COVID-19 vaccine clinics. The church has been holding these clinics since January, but they will move to a new location later in March. (Robert Creenan/Huron Daily Tribune)
The Evangel Life Assembly of God church has been hosting COVID-19 vaccination clinics over the past few weeks, but that will not be for much longer.
Apart from the county’s first clinic held at Bad Axe High School, all of the county’s subsequent clinics have taken place at that church. These clinics will soon move to a more permanent location at the Huron Crest Plaza between the Great Lakes Bay Health location and Dunham Sports later in March.
Bad Axe students take full advantage of opportunities to explore future careers
Paige Withey, paige.withey@hearstnp.com
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As the year progresses and Career and Technical Education Month comes to an end, students across the Upper Thumb are focusing on their post-secondary education plans as the end of the school year and graduation creep closer.
Students at Bad Axe High School not only have opportunities available to them through the Huron Area Technical Center, but they also have many different career and education courses available to them at the high school. According to Rebecca Roggenbuck, Bad Axe High School’s college and career advisor, the school offers many different courses within the building, such as agriculture, wood shop, drafting, small engine repair, robotics, and computer science.
Hatchets head coach already thinking about fall
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Bad Axe varsity football head coach Kalen Pokley smiles as senior Toby MacPhee signs his National Letter of Intent to attend and play football at Ferris State University during a ceremony in the high school gymnasium on Wednesday. Pokley is optimistic looking forward to the 2021 season, despite losing a large number of seniors to graduation. (Mark Birdsall/Huron Daily Tribune)Mark Birdsall/Huron Daily TribuneShow MoreShow Less
Wednesday was a bittersweet day for Bad Axe varsity football head coach Kalen Pokley, his coaching staff and his players.
Much of the team had gathered in the gym at Bad Axe High School to watch senior Toby MacPhee sign his National Letter of Intent to play football at Ferris State University. Wednesday’s ceremony gave the Hatchets one last opportunity to celebrate all that they had accomplished in 2020: a winning season under a new head coach, their first league title and playoff appea
Vaccines to begin for school staff
Some relieved, others frustrated with timeframe
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With the Huron County health department looking to get school staff members vaccinated, some districts are relieved that they ve made the cut while others are frustrated it took this long.
In the state’s prioritization schedule for who gets COVID-19 vaccines, school and child care staff are in Phase 1B, along with essential frontline workers, corrections staff, and those 75 years and older not covered by Phase 1A of the schedule.
Bad Axe Superintendent Greg Newland said that he was informed by the health department that any school staff wishing to be vaccinated, whether they be teachers, bus drivers, or custodians, would have to register through the health department’s website, similar to what groups who already received the vaccine did.
Over 2,000 COVID vaccines distributed so far, according to Hepfer
Registration open for vaccinations on health department website
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Residents who received COVID-19 vaccinations wait for 15 minutes after getting them at the mass clinic at Bad Axe High School. Ann Hepfer, the Huron County Health Officer, said that future mass clinics would be at the Assembly of God church in Bad Axe. (Tribune File Photo)
HURON COUNTY Over 2,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Huron County since they arrived, according to Ann Hepfer.
The health officer for the Huron County Health Department provided an update on the county’s vaccination efforts at this week’s Huron County Board of Commissioners meeting.