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[email protected] News Photo by Julie Riddle Alpena County Emergency Services Coordinator Mark Hall walks through the Emergency Operations Center at the Alpena County Central Dispatch building in March. ALPENA There were too many people to list, they said. The people who led Alpena County’s charge in the war against the coronavirus spoke fervently, stories tumbling and blending as they described the systematic whirlwind that was the past 12 months. Name after name slipped from their lips, list upon list of local residents who played a role in silently, selflessly, keeping Apena safe when the community was faced with a crisis unlike anything any of them had ever seen. ....
[email protected] News File Photo Six-year-old Irelyn Sayers supervises as Michigan National Guardsman 2nd Lt. Brianna Russell administers a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine to Alpena resident Debbie Sayers at a vaccinaation clinic at Alpena Community College in January. ALPENA In the gymnasium of Alpena Community College on Saturday, area residents wove through lines of yellow caution tape, wending their way toward the vaccination many feel is a real shot in the arm on the road to recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. About 1,000 first-dose vaccinations were scheduled for Saturday’s clinic, according to Matt Radocy, emergency preparedness coordinator for District Health Department No. 4. ....
News Staff Writers News File Photo Rogers City resident Riconda Lamb is given a bandage from nurse Ann Lorenzi after receiving a COVID-19 vaccination at a clinic at the Alpena Mall in January. ALPENA A crowd formed early at a Monday vaccination clinic at the Alpena Mall, where about 300 people had received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination by noon, according to health officials. The vaccine requires two doses to be fully effective. It is currently open to health care workers, first responders, teachers and other child care workers, and those 65 and older. In the first hour of Monday’s appointment-only clinic, a line of people waiting for shots snaked through the hallway and out the door of the mall, according to Matt Radocy, emergency preparedness coordinator for District Health Department No. 4. ....