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Menominee students told to mask up

MENOMINEE, MI— Menominee Area Public Schools are the latest to implement a mask mandate, and this time it’s for high schoolers, as well.

Interim Superintendent Steve Martin says the Board of Education didn’t make the decision easily, but Menominee Schools have seen a high number of COVID cases and close contacts that have resulted in 150 to 250 absences each day.

Masking began Thursday for all students, staff, and visitors inside district buildings during the school day. Martin says it will shrink the zone for contact tracing down from within 6 feet to within 3 feet. It will also decrease the number of students placed into quarantine and reduce the number of students who are absent each day.

Officials will monitor COVID cases and absences at school and return to optional masking when numbers decrease.

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.