ALPENA Several Northeast Michigan school districts are planning to offer summer school for students to help them reinforce or catch up on subjects learned i
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Melissa Moore, left, gets a close look, and smell, of some marijuana she considered purchasing from Consume Cannabis Co. employee Maddie Lane. Consume had its grand opening in Harrisville on Friday, and Moore was the first customer at the new store.
HARRISVILLE The first customer for the new adult-use marijuana store in Harrisville took her place in line at 8:30 a.m. Friday, in anticipation of the grand opening planned for 90 minutes later.
Consume Cannabis Co, the first of its kind business in the small city, soon had more than a dozen people waiting patiently to make a purchase of recreational use or medical marijuana, shortly after the doors opened.
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Bill Bowman, left, and his wife, Glenda, smile for a selfie on Wednesday in this photo provided by the couple. Glenda was the first resident in Northeast Michigan confirmed infected by COVID-19, and her husband tested positive shortly after.
ONAWAY A year has come and gone for Glenda Bowman since she tested positive for COVID-19 and became Northeast Michigan’s first resident confirmed infected with the disease.
Today, Glenda, and her husband, Bill, who ended up in the hospital from the coronavirus, say they still live with the physical and emotional impacts of the illness.
Alpena News editorial
Last spring, while the world was hopeful the coronavirus pandemic would be short-lived, it seemed as if Northeast Michigan might be spared entirely. While cases piled up mostly in the Detroit area, Northeast Michigan went weeks without a single infection.
Then, on April 6, 2020 one year ago today an Onaway paramedic working in Otsego County became the first Northeast Michigander infected.
In the year since, the coronavirus made it clear it would spare no one.
As of today, Alpena, Presque Isle, Montmorency, and Alcona counties have recorded a combined more than 3,000 infections and lost more than 100 residents to the virus.