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When Kathryn Watkins goes shopping these days, she doesn’t bring her three young children. There are just too many people not wearing masks in her southern Michigan town of Hillsdale.
At some stores, “not even the employees are wearing them anymore,” said Watkins, who estimates about 30% of shoppers wear masks, down from around 70% earlier in the pandemic. “There’s a complete disregard for the very real fact that they could wind up infecting someone.”
Her state tops the nation by far in the rate of new COVID-19 cases, a sharp upward trajectory that has more than
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When Kathryn Watkins goes shopping these days, she doesn’t bring her three young children. There are just too many people not wearing masks in her southern Michigan town of Hillsdale.
At some stores, “not even the employees are wearing them anymore,” said Watkins, who estimates about 30% of shoppers wear masks, down from around 70% earlier in the pandemic. “There’s a complete disregard for the very real fact that they could wind up infecting someone.”
Her state tops the nation by far in the rate of new COVID cases, a sharp upward trajectory that has more than two dozen hospitals in the state nearing 90% capacity.
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Medical staff watch and advise walk-in patients who received their COVID-19 vaccination at a pop-up clinic at Western International High School on April 12, 2021, in Detroit, Michigan.
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When Kathryn Watkins goes shopping these days, she doesnât bring her three young children. There are just too many people not wearing masks in her southern Michigan town of Hillsdale.
At some stores, ânot even the employees are wearing them anymore,â said Watkins, who estimates about 30% of shoppers wear masks, down from around 70% earlier in the pandemic. âThereâs a complete disregard for the very real fact that they could wind up infecting someone.â
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Hillsdale Daily News
HILLSDALE A Hillsdale woman, who went on a rampage throwing rocks at police vehicles and Hillsdale City Hall in November 2020, is tentatively scheduled for a preliminary examination hearing March 10 where it is likely she will take advantage of a plea bargain offered.
Naomi Ashley Bahe, 28, appeared in the 2B District Court Wednesday morning for a probable cause conference where her attorney, Keith Stickley, met with Hillsdale County Prosecutor Neal Brady to discuss the case and resolutions by plea bargain.
Bahe has been held at the Hillsdale County Jail since her arrest Nov. 29, on charges of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, malicious destruction of police property and a probation violation from a previous arrest.