Brian Kaufman, Photo Story
Shawn Windsor, Sports Feature
Janet Graham, Best Headline
Detroit Free Press Staff, Best Video Presentation
Georgea Kovanis, Best Writing
The Freep also won additional awards in other categories.
Nancy Kaffer won third place for Best Columnist; Phoebe Wall Howard won second place in Business/Agriculture News; Ryan Garza won third place in News Photo and second place in Best Photo; Kimberly P. Mitchell won third place in Photo Story; Detroit Free Press Staff won third place in Special Selection, third place for Best Coverage of the Coronavirus in Michigan and second place in Spot News Story; Jeff Seidel won second place in Sports writing.
This year will mark the reemergence after 17 years of Brood X, or the Great Eastern Brood, of periodical cicadas – those large, winged, kind of scary-looking but mostly harmless flying insects known for their almost deafening buzz.
“The end of May through June, it can get pretty loud – if you are in an area where they are numerous, there can be hundreds of thousands, or millions, of them,” said Howard Russell, an entomologist (insect scientist) at Michigan State University.
One of the largest broods of periodical cicadas in the nation, Brood X will emerge this spring in 15 states: Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C.
Alzheimer s deaths skyrocket as patients lives upended by pandemic Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press
DETROIT – George Pitchford knew his wife, Bettie, a retired educator whose lively mind was lost in the fog that is Alzheimer s, was going to get worse. But he hadn t expected her to die, at least not so soon.
The nursing center where she lived closed to visitors, and everything changed. George and a legion of family friends were no longer allowed to take Bettie on the walks she so greatly enjoyed.
Within months, she was in a wheelchair. They saw her only through window visits or via FaceTime calls, neither of which were especially productive.