Lenawee County, MI

A Public Health Order in Lenawee County, which required employee health screening at businesses in the county, has been rescinded. While screening employees for symptoms of COVID-19 and any known close contact to a COVID-19 positive individual is no longer required, it is still critical that employers do not allow individuals to work when they are sick or if they have been in close contact with a COVID-19 positive individual.

The Lenawee County Health Department, on Wednesday, reported 9 new confirmed cases of COVID-19…. with zero people in the hospital. There are currently 7 people in Lenawee County monitoring at home, and 8,511 recoveries. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesdsay reported 174 new confirmed cases of...

Why didn’t the tornado sirens go off in Riga prior to the confirmed EF-1 touched down Sunday night?. Lenawee County Emergency Management Coordinator Craig Tanis told WLEN News that the tornado did not show on the NWS radar, therefore no warning was issues so no sirens were activated.

LENAWEE COUNTY, Mich. – The National Weather Service confirmed on Monday that a tornado touched down Sunday night in Lenawee County. According to NWS, the brief EF-1 tornado was confirmed southeast of Blissfield and impacted the northwest and northern portions of Riga. It lasted from 9:23 p.m. until 9:27 p.m....

LENAWEE COUNTY (WWJ) -- The National Weather Service has confirmed a tornado touched down in Lenawee County on Sunday night. Forecasters say the EF-1 tornado had peak winds of 90 miles per hour, and was on the ground for more than 2.5 miles in the southeast portion of the county in Riga Township near Blissfield.

Specifically, it touched down just northwest of Riga Township and traveled east-northeast for 2.7 miles before lifting. The funnel was 125 yards wide at the ground, and its speed reached 90 miles per hour, which rates it an EF-1 on the 0-to-5 Enhanced Fujita Scale. So if no tornado warning...

After a year off, high school baseball returned to Lenawee County in a big way. Blissfield head coach Larry Tuttle became the state's winningest coach in history and led the Royals to 35 wins and its first trip to the regional championship game since 2009. The Royals led the way...

Lately I have been reading both Letters to the Editor and even some newspaper columnists who live in fear that the suggested use of a card showing proof of vaccination against COVID will somehow compromise their God-given right to pass on a deadly disease to other people and which may even turn the U.S. into a Nazi nation. Wow.

RIGA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — After a night of severe thunderstorms, one family is left picking up the pieces of their home. "I've never lived through something as scary as that was. The house just shook and when it did, the whole bedroom exploded," Brian Bowman described. He said it sounded...

Lenawee County, MI – Two girls jumped out of the canoe they were fishing from when a fiberglass boat bumped into them on Silver Lake this weekend. Lenawee County Sheriff Troy Bevier told WLEN News that the boat was traveling slowly near the shoreline, and the driver did not hear the girl’s warning that he was going to hit them. He also didn’t see the canoe.

Adrian, MI – The Lenawee County Health Department, on Tuesday, reported 1 new confirmed case of COVID-19… with 1 person in the hospital, and zero new deaths. There are currently 7 people in Lenawee County monitoring at home, and 8,501 recoveries. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on...

Two Monroe County high school students were named recipients of annually awarded scholarship funds from the Monroe/Lenawee County AFL-CIO Central Labor Council. Caroline Groll, a 2020-21 graduate of Bedford High School and Emma Spradling, a 2020-21 graduate of Whiteford High School are this year’s two scholarship awardees, each receiving $1,000 in funds as presented in a virtual meeting May 10, a news release said.

RIGA, Mich. — Monday night, several people in Lenawee County are still cleaning up the damage and waiting for their power to come back on. "We had tornado activity, I mean there's no doubt about it," Brian Bowman said. The last 24 hours have been overwhelming for Brian and Kaye...

Casey Randolph has never applied to be a varsity head football coach – until now. Randolph, who has been an assistant football coach for more than two decades, wrestling coach and athletic director, is the new varsity head football coach at Clinton. “I have some big shoes to fill,” Randolph...

RIGA, Mich. (WTVG) - The National Weather Service confirms that the severe weather in Lenawee County Sunday night, into Monday morning, was caused by an EF-1 tornado. NWS said Monday that the tornado touched down around 9:23 p.m. and traveled almost three miles in a four minute period, damaging five homes, multiple other buildings, as well as uprooting trees and knocking down power lines.

Heavy winds and thunderstorms raged through Lenawee County Saturday and Sunday nights, causing widespread power outages, fallen trees and some property damage. There were also reports of a tornado or funnel cloud seen in the area of Cemetery Road in Riga Township heading east toward Monroe County during Sunday's storm, but the National Weather Services has yet to confirm those reports.