Mason County will be returning “several hundred thousand dollars” of COVID-19 relief money to the state at the end of the month.

Mason County Director of Community Services Dave Windom provided the information to the county Board of Health at their May 23 meeting.

“It’s for COVID vaccine. We’re just not getting demands for COVID vaccine work so I talked to the hospital and they aren’t getting a big demand either,” Windom told the board.

The Board of Health talked about ways to use the money before the end of the month, including putting the money toward buying a vehicle for...