COVID-19
2020 Festival cancellations deal blow to local economies
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Many festivals in the Great Lakes region were cancelled due to the pandemic, though tourists still visited in droves.
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Many festivals in the Great Lakes region were cancelled due to the pandemic, though tourists still visited in droves.
Most of the state’s 240 farmers markets survived during the pandemic that upended the way fresh produce, baked goods and other items are sold at the popular venues.
Welcome to the COVID economy: Lumber prices and tent sales soared. Great Lakes shipping took a dive. Home sales were up. And energy sales shifted from manufacturing plants to home offices.
A look at some of the consequences of the pandemic on Michigan’s highways.
Michigan is searching the state’s sewers for the virus that causes COVID-19.
If there’s one upside to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s that more people are getting outdoors and connecting with nature.
Library patrons may not be spending hours browsing the stacks for new reads, but Michigan librarians are still busy quarantining books and shipping them to eager summer readers.
Coronovirus one more danger of fieldwork to study the impact of people on the ecology of drowned river mouths.
“I think that there’s a tendency for a lot of people that work on independent research projects to get a little, you know, obsessive, and they’re super driven.”