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Nannette Rechel taps a beer for a customer late Thursday evening at the SilverThorn Tavern in Hughesville. The owners are very happy to be able to have capacity opened back up to 75% in their restaurant and to be able open back up their bar to drinks. "People want to come here for the atmosphere" co-owner Vince Grieco said, and that being limited in capacity both at the bar and the restaurant meant that the tavern "lost 60% of beverage sales and 25% of sales overall" because of Covid. They have regular customers that enjoying coming in to sit and talk "its good for the community, we have a lot of single customers that like to come in and eat alone and if the bar isn't open to seating they turn around and walk out because they don't feel comfortable sitting alone at a table".