5 YEARS AGO April 16, 2020
The Park Service closed Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore to visitors this week citing the need to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The closing, announced Tuesday afternoon, comes after about 10 days monitoring activity at specific sites in the park to determine whether visitors are observing social distancing restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. *** Clarification of the “stay at home” order issued by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer couldn’t come at a worse time for fishers who have been filling creels with spawning perch. Phone calls inundated the county Sheriff’s Office over the weekend from people seeking to verify if, in fact, they were not allowed to fish from boats with motors.
10 YEARS AGO
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