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
NMU Students Remain, the Airport’s Quiet, Questions About Hospital Personnel, a Plea to Stay Away
"They feel safer here." THERE ARE STILL 700 NMU students living in residence halls on the campus. They either can't or don't want to return home. "Some of them are telling us they don't have a place to go or they don't have transportation," says Derek Hall, NMU's chief marketing officer. "Some have said they don't ... Continue Reading
A New Home for the Homeless, the Hospital’s PPE Inventory, High Tech Mask Makers, and a County Operating During a Crisis
The city opens its doors ROOM AT THE INN, which provides housing for the homeless, has a new home during the coronavirus crisis. The nonprofit agency has moved its guests from the First Presbyterian Church to the Olson Arena at Lakeview Arena. City manager Mike Angeli worked out the arrangement with RATI executive ... Continue Reading
Nursing Home Challenges, Tourism Blues, the Dearth of Sports, and Unfortunate Entrepreneurial Timing
Quarantine in place THE LAST WEEK or two has been a major inconvenience for most us. Imagine what it's like to be old or infirm or both and living away from your family. It can be frightening, confusing, and depressing. Brookridge Heights, the assisted living and memory care complex in Marquette, is trying to make ... Continue Reading
What Can We Do to Help?
THIS IS WHAT you do when your community faces a crisis. You see what needs to be done and then you do it. Sally Steen and Terry Wessels have taken that to heart. They've started an online group, Masks for Marquette, to make masks to help protect our doctors, nurses, and medical technicians. In the last three days, it's ... Continue Reading
The Misadventure of a Lifetime: Discovering More About Yourself and Your Mate
IT'S NOT QUITE what they expected on their once-in-a-lifetime vacation ---a challenging hike up the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, one of the wonders of the world. Truthfully, it hasn't been even close to what they expected. Almost as soon as they arrived in Peru, Pat and Alyssa Digneit, the co-owners of Digs in downtown ... Continue Reading
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