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Restaurants filled with diners past 10:30 P.M. on Friday for the first time in months.
“It’s a shot in the arm,” said Owner at the Thirsty Beaver Ed Brady.
The Department of Health originally announced Thursday the state curfew would be lifted starting next week, but restaurants lobbied to make it more immediate.
“When they said they wanted to do it Sunday, our big question was well why? Why do we need to wait?” said Rick Simone of the Federal Hill Commerce Association. “We only need two or three hours to prepare for this. So that’s why we pushed really hard last night to get a change for today.”