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Retired school workers to meet

MARQUETTE — The Marquette area chapter of the Michigan Association of Retired School Personnel will hold its annual fall social at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 13 at the Carp River Gardens, 73 Heritage Drive in Negaunee. There Jim Somers, retired teacher and Master Gardener, will offer a tour with Q&A. In case of inclement weather, the meeting will be held at the new Ishpeming Senior Center, 121 Greenwood St. in Ishpeming, where Senior Center Director Ashley Robers will share information concerning services for seniors, specifically focusing on access to services aimed at reducing ...

Bergman calls on veterans center to relax mask policy

IRON MOUNTAIN — Some military veterans are delaying or foregoing medical visits to the Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center in Iron Mountain due to its masking policies, according to U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet. Bergman this week sent a letter to Iron Mountain VA Director John ...

COVID-19 Update: Test to Treat program available at Westwood Mall

By CHRISTIE MASTRIC Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — To help remove barriers and ensure more Michigan residents have access to COVID-19 outpatient treatments, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is offering a Test to Treat program at 13 locations across the state that offer no-cost testing and telehealth services. One of those locations is the Westwood Mall, located at 3020 U.S. 41 in Marquette Township. “Early access to these medications helps support faster recovery and decreases the risk of hospitalization,” said Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, MDHHS chief medical ...

Court rehears fight over vaccine mandate

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — President Joe Biden has the same authority to impose a COVID-19 vaccine requirement on federal workers that private employers have for their employees, an administration lawyer told a federal appeals court Tuesday. A lawyer for opponents of the vaccine requirement, which has been blocked nationwide by a federal judge in Texas, said the requirement imposes an “unconstitutionally intolerable choice” for executive branch workers — taking a vaccine they don’t want or losing their jobs. Judges on the appeals court meanwhile questioned how far the chief ...

Schoolcraft COVID-19 numbers up

MARQUETTE — The Luce-Mackinac-Alger-Schoolcraft District Health Department announced that COVID-19 cases are up in its areas, especially in Schoolcraft County, with eight cases from July 6-13 increasing to 21 cases in the following week ending on July 20. The U.P. has added just over 1,200 ...

Mackinac County in high-risk virus category

ST. IGNACE — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has moved Mackinac County into its community level classification of high risk for COVID-19 transmission and infection, the Luce-Mackinac-Alger-Schoolcraft District Health Department announced on Wednesday. In Mackinac County, ...