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“If she hadn’t been in the car, she would be alive today” — COVID-19 claims 30-year-old Native American

A few days before she died of the Coronavirus on November 23, Maryan Rochel Petoskey sat up in her bed on the COVID-19 ward at Munson Medical Center in Traverse City and looked in both directions. Through a clear greyish tarp that separated her from others, Maryan told her sister Donna that she could see rows and rows of beds on either side. A member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who lived on the Peshawbestown reservation, Maryan Rochel Petoskey was 30 years young. She was the third victim of COVID-19 in Leelanau County, and the first person under age 60 to die of the pandemic.

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A Game Without Rules: Harbor House and VI Grill manage the pandemic

“The game is next week, but you don’t know the rules,” Richard Roberts reflected on running his Leelanau County businesses through the COVID-19 pandemic. Roberts owns The Harbor House in Leland, co-owns the county’s oldest, continually operated restaurant, the Village Inn in Suttons Bay—most commonly known as the VI Grill, runs real estate through Harbor House Properties LLC, and owns SAM Equities LLC in Lake Leelanau, a former restaurant currently available for rent.

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Benzie-Leelanau Health Department reports daily record 34 COVID cases

The Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department has reported a daily record 34 new cases of COVID-19 for Wednesday, Nov. 18. Active COVID-19 cases (142 in Leelanau County; 125 in Benzie County) now top the number of recovered cases (134 in Leelanau; 99 in Benzie) — a sign of the pandemic’s rapid community spread.

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Benzie-Leelanau Health Department reports single-day record 20 new COVID cases Thursday

Today, the Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department reports a single-day record 20 new COVID-19 cases— 11 in Leelanau County and 9 in Benzie County. Yesterday the Health Department reported 11 cases—8 in Leelanau and 3 in Benzie.

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Rapid COVID spread forces Glen Lake to go virtual until Thanksgiving

Multiple COVID-19 cases among parents of students at Glen Lake Community Schools has prompted the district to cease face-to-face learning until after Thanksgiving, superintendent Jon Hoover told the Glen Arbor Sun today. Students will return on Monday, November 30. As many as 45 Glen Lake high school students didn’t show up for classes today, suggesting how widely COVID has spread among the school community.

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COVID positive case prompts Glen Lake to close fourth grade, kindergarten classes

One COVID-19-positive test of a staff member at Glen Lake Community Schools has prompted the school to temporarily close three sections of Fourth Grade and one section of Kindergarten, superintendent Jon Hoover told the Glen Arbor Sun today. The school learned of the case at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday.

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Glen Lake School purifies air during COVID with bipolar ionization filters

Glen Lake School is one of the first schools in the region to use innovative, bipolar ionization filters in its ventilation systems to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spreading inside the building.

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Leelanau School staff, students test negative for COVID

The Leelanau School, the private boarding school just north of Glen Arbor, reported in a media release today that no new COVID-19 cases have been found among the student body and staff.

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Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department Offers Drive Up COVID-19 Testing

The Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department will start providing drive up testing one day per week at each office starting in Leelanau on Tuesday, September 8, and Benzie on Wednesday, September 9.

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Wine Tasting Al Fresco in Leelanau

With bars in Traverse City and Bellaire writing lengthy pleas to the public to respect their employees, to refrain from cursing, spitting and worse, it was time to check in with Leelanau County’s wineries and see how they’ve managed the COVID-19 requirements of mask-wearing, distancing, sanitizing surfaces, and more.

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