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Letters to the Editor

Support local restaurants when they reopen

EDITOR: Eventually, our downstate governor will “allow” businesses to reopen. At that point, how many of you will go to a sit-down restaurant? Even if it is as simple as going inside McDonald’s Burger King, Hardee’s, Wendy’s, etc.I think we should all make an effort to patronize ...

No reassuring words

EDITOR: I don’t want to hear from U.P. Rep. Beau LaFave or Sen. Ed McBroom in their vote hunting rhetoric to this newspaper every again. If that is the only calming, sympathetic reassuring words you have for your hard-working sacrificing people in the Upper Peninsula, you can keep it. You ...

How about the U.P. of Wisconsin?

EDITOR: The statistics for coronavirus as of May 6, 2020 are: Michigan cases 44,954, deaths 4,237 Upper Peninsula cases 96, deaths 13 Total cases 45,050, deaths 4,250 U.P. percent of total cases 0.20%, deaths 0.30% The population of the Upper Peninsula is 311,000. The population of ...

Graduation for 2020 seniors idea

EDITOR: All local schools have football fields, track and field and parking lots. Here is a thought for celebrating our seniors in the Upper Peninsula. They don’t have senior prom, honors banquets or graduation ceremonies. How about having ceremonies, attended only by graduating seniors, no ...

Open up

EDITOR: Now Governor Whitmer wants another 28 days of a lockdown. I am asking every business in Escanaba to grow spine and re-open. Let’s start at one end of Ludington. state and county offices, and library, right up to Menard’s. Open up. Let’s take Lincoln Road. Dr. Jacobs, The ...

Leash law

EDITOR: Spring is here and that is a good thing. An old problem is cropping up again people walking their dogs in Ludington Park and elsewhere within the city off leash. It is especially a problem right in proximity of the bike path and on Aronson Island. It doesn’t matter how well your ...