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NO EMERGENCY: Lawmakers explain failed effort to save Ontonagon E.R.
In our second look at aspirus' decision to pull its emergency services from its Ontonagon hospital, john truitt breaks down how people in the community learned of the news, and how local leaders tried - so far unsuccessfully - to get aspirus to chang its mind.
U.P. county loses its only hospital in what residents call ‘life or death situation’
A minute before midnight on Friday, April 19, the only hospital in one of Michigan's largest counties stopped taking emergency patients. Shortly afterward, tarps covered the signs at the Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital at the western edge of the Upper Peninsula, barricades were erected, lights out. Earlier that same Friday, crews from the...
Four financially distressed UP communities to receive grants from state program
Undated - Four U-P municipalities are getting money from the state’s Financially Distressed Cities, Villages and Townships Grant Program. Cities, villages, and townships can participate if they experience one or more conditions of ‘probable financial distress.’ The grants fund programs, services, or enhancements that move the municipality toward financial stability. The Village of Calumet is getting nearly 571-thousand dollars for infrastructure replacement at the public works building and village hall…Gaastra (GAS’-truh) will receive 59-thousand dollars to upgrade technology equipment and software… The Village of Laurium is getting 250-thousand to replace a fire equipment truck… and Ontonagon is getting more than 149-thousand dollars to purchase a backhoe and motor grader.
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