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iminor@dailypress.net ESCANABA — As the year comes to a close, officials in Escanaba are preparing for the new year ahead — and hoping for a better year than 2020. “I can tell you honestly, I am looking forward to a much better 2021. 2020 has not treated us well. We’re all very expectant of better times,” said Escanaba Mayor Marc Tall. Tall said one of his personal goals for the coming year was to encourage residents to get the COVID-19 vaccine whenever it is made available to them. On a personal note, he recalled the loss of friends to the disease and how restrictions put in place ...

Saying goodbye to those we lost ELLSWORTH — 2020 was a year full of loss, thanks in part to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hancock County recorded its first death of a person who tested positive for coronavirus in May, a man in his 60s, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Since then, as of Dec. 30, eleven Hancock County residents have died due to the coronavirus. However, locals have lost many more family and friends who lived elsewhere to the virus. Meanwhile, Hancock County lost several community leaders due to other causes during 2020. Longtime lawman Alan Bro...