Community college program aims to train media influencers

Image:  Business has been hurting at Francois Purdie’s consignment shop in Toledo, Ohio, since the start of the pandemic. The customers who once walked the streets of the historic Olde Town neighborhood and shopped for antique furniture or vintage clothes at her small shop disappeared and have yet to return in the same numbers. Half the shops on the block have closed. Purdie recently decided it was time to make a change. She’s applying to a new certificate program at Owens Community...