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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Who can forget when the world shut down five years ago? At 11:59 p.m. March 23, 2020, a stay-at-home order went into effect in ...

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GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Five years ago, with the coronavirus pandemic bearing down on Michigan, the Loeks family found itself in uncharted territory: Its chain of Celebration Cinema theaters had been ...