5 YEARS AGO November 19, 2020
Michigan’s restaurant industry has already been hit hard by COVID-19 and now they are staring down more challenges. Sunday restaurants were dealt another major blow when they were ordered to halt indoor dining for the next three weeks while state officials try to slow the second wave of the pandemic.
*** A deeply-split Leelanau County Board of Commissioners argued Tuesday night about whether they should even discuss a proposal to conduct additional “anti-racism training” to follow up on lectures they received at a special “anti-bias” study session earlier this month. At this week’s county board meeting, District No. 3 Commissioner Will Bunek, the county board chairman, accused District No. 4 Commissioner Ty Wessell of being a “bully” because of the way Wessell prepared a proposal that could require a formal “anti-racism/ diversity plan” be put into effect through 2025.
