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As Michigan businesses continue to find a new normal with the COVID-19 pandemic, many are asking, where the workers went.

Mask Or No Mask? Confusion Persists As Businesses Decide On Policies By Michelle Jokisch Polo  May 25, 2021 Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Michigan has been at the center of the mask-wearing debate, and it intensified after hundreds of residents flooded the Michigan State Capitol to protest the governor’s stay-at-home orders and mask mandates. Today the decision to wear or not wear a mask is seen in Michigan by many as a political statement. But it’s one that Michigan restaurant owner Travis Stoliker is not interested in making. “Even today, we had individuals walking...

Michelle Jokisch Polo/WKAR toggle caption Michelle Jokisch Polo/WKAR A sign on the front doors of Westlund's Apple Market in Lansing, Mich., asks customers to wear a mask unless they are vaccinated against COVID-19. Michelle Jokisch Polo/WKAR Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Michigan has been at the center of the mask-wearing debate, and it intensified after hundreds of residents flooded the Michigan State Capitol to protest the governor's stay-at-home orders and mask mandates. Today the decision to wear or not wear a mask is seen in Mic...

Westlund's Apple Market in Lansing celebrates century mark LANSING - If you ask Tim Westlund how his family's small, independent grocery store reached the century mark, he'll first point to all the homes in neighborhoods nearby. Westlund's Apple Market is a neighborhood grocery store, he said. What you travel there to buy is what you’ll leave with, and on Lansing's east side he believes that appeals to people. "We’re not going to even try to sell you a pair of jeans or something down the middle aisle like the big box stores," Westlund said. "We’re not in that business. We are a grocer...

Worth Knowing: Among her many brushes with history, the Saginaw, Minn., resident was the oldest person to receive a COVID-19 vaccination at Community Memorial Hospital in Cloquet. Martha Westlund died March 6, 2021, at age 105.