ROGERS CITY, Mich. – Illness — not snow — canceled classes Monday for a fourth time at a school district in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula.
“I hope that this is the last of it,” Rogers City Superintendent Nick Hein told The Alpena News.
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Bad weather hasn't scratched classes this year in Rogers City, which is along Lake Huron, 60 miles southeast of the Mackinac Bridge. But illness is another story.
The district has roughly 510 students. A quarter of them were out Friday.
“My school nurse has confirmed the majority of it was the flu,” Hein said of students who were absent.
District Health Department No. 4 said flu has been widespread for five to six weeks in the northeastern Lower Peninsula.