Shane Lorenzen finally caught COVID days before Christmas in 2022. A substitute teacher in New York City, he knew the state offered paid COVID leave to public employees — a key protection for essential workers put in place early in the pandemic. But when he asked his school payroll secretary about it, she informed him that as […]
SHELBY TOWNSHIP/UTICA/STERLING HEIGHTS Sgt. Maj. Robert W. Ferguson II joined the Army in August 1996 as a combat engineer just after graduating from Utica High School.