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COVID marks new chapter for independent bookstores
Updated Feb 16, 2021;
Posted Feb 16, 2021
Zelmon Zee Johnson adjusts the shelves in her Olive Tree Books-n-Voices, a community bookstore on Hancock Street in Springfield. (Don Treeger / The Republican)
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SOUTH HADLEY For Joan Grenier, owner of the Odyssey Bookshop across from Mount Holyoke College, 2020 was a year of constant reinvention and gratitude.
With business interrupted by the coronovirus pandemic, Grenier said she was faced with the possibility of closing. The crisis prompted her to set up a GoFundMe online fundraiser seeking help from longtime customers and supporters of independent booksellers.
Grenier said she was overwhelmed when donors came forward with $70,000 to help the bookstore stay open and make payments on bills totaling nearly $150,000.
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Minimum wage hike, Family and Medical Leave Act take effect Jan. 1; here’s what businesses and workers say it means to them
Updated Dec 28, 2020;
Posted Dec 28, 2020
Jeremiah Micka holds a remote ordering machine at Union Station in Northampton, Dec. 8, 2020. (Hoang ‘Leon’ Nguyen / The Republican)
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NORTHAMPTON Jeremiah Micka has been dealing with a lot lately.
Like many, the owner of the Union Station complex in Northampton which includes the Tunnel Bar, the Roosevelt Room banquet facility, the Platform Sports Bar and a patio bar called The Deck has struggled to keep his business afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.
In the new year, he and his fellow business owners will get even more on their plates.