Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Ontonagon schools limit number of basketball spectators

By JAN TUCKER

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ONTONAGON — The Ontonagon Area Board of Education Monday, endorsed the decision of Superintendent Jim Bobula to permit only two people for each participant in a basketball game to attend the game and games against those schools who do the same.

The decision, Bobula said, follows the guideline of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. The school board stopped short, however, of requiring for those two spectators per participant to be from the same family. He said that decision is an attempt to eliminate an amount of exposure and is best for the...