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A year changed some of what we knew about COVID and who it affects most. But heartbreak was the constant.


A year changed some of what we knew about COVID and who it affects most. But heartbreak was the constant.
John Diedrich, Sophie Carson, Irene Chang, and Andrew Mollica
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Diane Butler, center, poses for a photo at her graduation in 2013 from Bryant & Stratton College with her daughter, Carmen Gardner-Jackson, and her son-in-law Kelly Jackson. Butler earned a degree in criminal justice. She died in 2020 from COVID.
A year ago, as deaths from the coronavirus soared in New York, Seattle and elsewhere, people in Wisconsin waited and wondered.
The first case of the virus had been confirmed in the state in late January 2020. It seemed just a matter of time before COVID claimed a life in Wisconsin. On March 19, it took three. ....

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Many Wisconsin families will soon get food benefits for children learning remotely. Here's how to qualify.


Many Wisconsin families will soon get food benefits for children learning remotely. Here’s how to qualify.
Rory Linnane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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A Trader Joe s grocery store employee sanitizes shopping carts at the store s Bayshore Town Center location in Glendale on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. The business had a steady flow of customers.
For families with students who normally get free or reduced-price lunches at school but have been learning virtually this school year, there will soon be some belated financial assistance for groceries.
People have been visiting the food pantry in record numbers, said Sherrie Tussler, executive director of the Hunger Task Force. Some help is on the way. ....

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