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Feb 19, 2021
MARQUETTE The Center for Watershed Protection is expanding its work to the Great Lakes region. Greg Hoffmann, the center’s director of stormwater services, recently opened a satellite office in Marquette, “Opening the Great Lakes office provides an opportunity to expand our reach and protect critical water resources in another vital United States watershed,” Hye Yeong Kwon, the center’s executive director, said in a news release. “We are thrilled Greg will be bringing his wealth of stormwater knowledge to the largest freshwater system in the world and we are confident our services will help enhance water quality.”
Hoffmann plans to focus the Center’s efforts on watershed planning and stormwater management in the region, specifically stormwater retrofits, officials said in the release.
136 infected in 32 new coronavirus outbreaks, says Michigan’s Feb. 8 school outbreak report
Updated Feb 08, 2021;
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A total of 136 students and staff at 29 K-12 school districts and two colleges have been infected by coronavirus in new school-related outbreaks, according to data released Monday, Feb. 8, by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
The biggest outbreaks involved 16 students and staff each at Lapeer High School and at Michigan Tech University.
In addition to Michigan Tech, a new college outbreak was reported by Concordia University in Ann Arbor involving four students.
New K-12 school outbreaks also were identified in 16 counties. Below are those outbreaks listed by county:
NASA Once Launched Rockets In Northern Michigan
What do the state of Michigan and the space age have in common? Apparently a lot more than we thought. Lying at the northern tip of Michigan s lower peninsula in a remote area void of traffic and well.roads, lies a trail leading to what was once was a busy launch pad NASA once used for launching rockets. Yep, the kind of rockets that require a launch pad.
Today the area is called the Keweenaw Rocket Range and this launch pad was once used and served as a kind of home base for research projects between NASA and Michigan Colleges and Universities..
It had been nearly two months since the state of Michigan suspended Café Rosetta’s food license for flouting COVID-19 rules, four days since a judge fined owners $7,500 for contempt of court and six days before the state would allow restaurants to resume indoor dining at 25 percent capacity.
But the cafe doors remained open and business was booming in downtown Calumet, a onetime copper mining capital in the Upper Peninsula, where Amy Heikkinen has kept her restaurant running in a fight against the state she contends is about economic survival.
“I’ve gotten to the point where I’ve been able to build my business, where I don’t have to rely on child support or food stamps or anything like that, and I’d like to keep it that way,” Heikkinen said in an interview at the restaurant, describing herself as a single mother of six who fled an abusive relationship before buying the business with her brother several years ago.