Thursday, March 28, 2024

Area bowling alley owners express frustration, nerves about three-week shutdown


Bill Smith told his co-workers a few weeks ago that another shutdown was coming, it was only a matter of when it would be.

The owner of Hillcrest Lanes bowling alley in Belding, who took ownership of the business with his fiancé, Kim Krouse, last November, saw the rising COVID-19 cases and deaths and was doing his best to brace for the bad news. Still, when the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) ordered the shutdown on Sunday, effective Wednesday, it didn’t make it any easier to swallow for Smith.

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