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Monday: In Business

Workers turn into amateur sleuths to track virus cases

NEW YORK — Jana Jumpp spends eight hours a day updating a spreadsheet — not for work, but a recent hobby: figuring out how many of Amazon's 400,000 warehouse workers have fallen sick with the coronavirus. Amazon won’t give a number, so Jumpp tracks it on her own and shares what she ...

Gov. Whitmer appoints U.P. resident to real estate board

ESCANABA — Christopher M. Germain, of Escanaba, is a realtor with Premier Real Estate, Inc., president of the Upper Peninsula Association of Realtors and a captain with the Ford River Township Fire Department. He holds an Institute One Certification from Holloway’s Real Estate Institute. ...

Small business restart grant applications now accepted

MARQUETTE — In an effort to continue to support small businesses, the Michigan Small Business Restart Program will provide funding to local economic development organizations which will provide grants to eligible small businesses that have been negatively impacted by COVID-19 pandemic and ...

THIS WEEK’S BUSINESS PROFILE: Northern Michigan Land Brokers

MARQUETTE — Looking for a new home? Is a camp or cottage on the wish list? In search of the perfect property for the small business you have always dreamed of opening? Perhaps that dream parcel of waterfront or woodlands? Northern Michigan Land Brokers are ready to help you with that. They ...

A new era begins at Jon’s Auto

MARQUETTE — Just 52 days after Jon’s Auto started a new era of ownership, the COVID-19 pandemic hit. But new owners Brian Kipling and Mike Guenette did not let that get them down. In the midst of the stress of the pandemic, the new owners of Jon’s kept things in perspective. “What do ...

News from the Greater Munising Area

Since recently moving back to Munising, friends living in other areas have asked about my rural hometown and what makes it special. “I’ve only driven through it, what’s there to do?” or “I’ve been on a boat tour, but that’s it,” are the most common phrases I’ve heard. While ...