Updated: 9/17/2008 4:00:19 PM
So long, and thanks for all the fish
• Patient move • Cab sting • Rider hurt
Plus: More sunny September days
Moving day for hospital addition
By LINDA GITTLEMAN
Gratiot Managing Editor
Tuesday was the first of moving days at Gratiot Medical Center in Alma as 12 patients were transferred into the first floor rehab unit of the new patient tower.
Everything appeared in readiness as Maggie Kelly, a lively and popular 87-year-old from St. Louis, became the first patient on the floor.
“My nurse brought me over last night,” said Kelly, who’s recovering from a stroke. That preview allowed her to check out her new digs.
The private room is nice and the private bathroom is even nicer, but Kelly said she will miss her roommate.
Patients are expected to move into the tower at the rate of one unit a week, until the whole 120-bed tower is filled.
One cab company passes test by police
By LISA SATAYUT
Sun Staff Writer
Officers from the Mt. Pleasant Police Department did their best to look like college students Saturday night while working an undercover taxicab operation.
They wanted to see just how easy it was to bring open alcohol into a taxicab - only one company passed the test.
“Our goal was to see if people were allowed to bring open alcohol into the cab,” Mt. Pleasant Police public information officer Dave Sabuda said. “Hoop-T was the only company where the driver didn’t let the test subject on.”
The other cab companies that were tested were Chippewa Cab, Mt. Pleasant Cab Company and Get-A-Ride.
Motorcycle driver injured in collision
A motorcycle driver was critically injured Tuesday afternoon in a car-motorcycle accident that resulted in a stretch of M-46 being closed for nearly three hours.
Details are still sketchy, but police said the motorcycle driver, a male in his 60s from Merrill, ran into the back of a car, driven by a woman from Midland.
He was airlifted to a hospital in Saginaw, Michigan State Police Trooper Jeff Hammond said.
The car’s driver was traveling west on M-46 and was attempting a turn onto Baldwin Road, when the motorcyclist, following behind her, collided with the car, police said.
The motorcycle was a trike, a three-wheeled motorcycle, Hammond said.
M-46 from Crapo Road to Bagley Road was closed after the accident. The accident occurred at 12:43 p.m. and M-46 remained closed for the accident reconstructionist team until shortly after 3 p.m.
Pleasant days, cool nights
A cold front extended from the Straits of Mackinac through central Wisconsin will move through mid-Michigan today, forecasters say, but only a few clouds are expected with its passage.
Cooler air will filter into the area Thursday, along with dry conditions as high pressure drifts overhead. Temperatures will moderate a little on Friday as southerly winds
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