A 14 day quarantine YOU MIGHT HAVE noticed that Greg Trick hasn't been anchoring the TV6 news for the last few weeks. True, he and his wife Aoy had been vacationing in Thailand, but there's more to the story than that. They shortened their trip when the COVID-19 threat became serious back in the States, and returned ... Continue Reading
School Year Ending?
No official announcement yet LOOKS LIKE MICHIGAN'S K-12 public and private schools may be closing for the rest of the school year. That's according to Bridge Magazine, the state's non-partisan, nonprofit news organization which is a highly regarded and highly reliable source of news about Michigan. The article states ... Continue Reading
Servers Getting Paid, Police Changing Procedures, Mining Journal Parent Offering Help, and Norlite Taking Precautions
GoFundMe freed up the money IT TOOK LONGER than anticipated but the money collected for restaurant, bar, and coffee shop servers has been distributed. All but a few of the 200 laid-off workers have received the cash in the last few days. The money was held up for a week by GoFundMe while it did some checking on the ... Continue Reading
The Impact of COVID-19: Old Folks Battling Technology
LOTTA TIME TO kill these days while practicing social distancing and mourning the closure of coffee shops, restaurants, bars, and retail stores. So we old folks sleep, eat, take a walk, rest, eat, take a walk, work on a 1000 piece puzzle, rest, take another walk, eat, watch the news...and then evening! Netflix! Woohoo! ... Continue Reading
Mass Mask Production, a Dearth of Dogs and Cats, No Panic about the Market, and a Real Estate Slowdown
The goal has been raised EIGHTEEN HUNDRED. That's how many folks have joined the group, Masks for Marquette on Facebook, in the just the last week. This is the group that's sewing protective masks for health care workers in Marquette County. The group was thrown together, literally overnight, by Terry Wessels, a ... Continue Reading