The Globe - Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

By CHARITY SMITH

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BESSEMER — The Bessemer Library has partnered with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to provide free COVID-19 at home test kits to the community.

Library director Melissa Lupino said MDHHS started a pilot program for the test kits in lower Michigan at a handful of libraries.

“It must have gone well, because they opened it up for other libraries to volunteer to be one of these sights, and we threw our hat in and we were chosen to be one of the distribution sights,” she said.

The library is one of 77 libraries statewide tha...