American Express Turns Its One-Day Shop Small Saturday Into A Summer-Long Small Business Event forbes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from forbes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Dec 31, 2020
In early June, diners were able to enjoy lunch at spaced out tables outside Blue Bricks. Gov. Tim Walz eased guidelines to allow bars and restaurants to reopen in outdoor spaces at reduced capacity, but in mid-November he again ordered them to halt indoor service.
MANKATO â Local restaurants, bars, gyms, salons, entertainment venues and shops have gone through a COVID rollercoaster ride in 2020, filled with twists, turns and heart-stopping falls.
Those in leisure and entertainment businesses have been financially and emotionally pummeled with waves of closures, partial openings and re-closings.
After struggling to stay afloat with takeout service and some outdoor and limited indoor service, restaurant and bar owners were devastated when Gov. Tim Walz in mid-November ordered restaurants and bars to again close indoor dining because of a surge in cases that threatened to overwhelm hospitals.
Shoppers turn out to support local Missoula businesses
Money is tight and times are hard, but the shops lining our downtown streets are looking to the community for a little reassurance.
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MISSOULA â There is no question that many owners of small businesses were nervous, wondering how holiday shopping was going to turn out.
Normally during the weekend after Thanksgiving on Shop Small Saturday consumers turn out in large numbers. But this year was a double-edged sword.
Money is tight and times are hard, but the shops lining our downtown streets their owners and employees are looking to the community for a little reassurance.
Small local shops try to claw back with holiday business mankatofreepress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mankatofreepress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Johnson City Press on returning to schools after a winter break during the pandemic:
The annual winter break from school is a bigger relief than ever this year for students, teachers and especially school administrators.
The pressure from schooling decisions around the novel coronavirus pandemic has been immense - perhaps not at the levels faced by frontline health care providers, but nonetheless in unprecedented ways.
And the pressure is likely to get worse in the new year.
Since early November, COVID-19 has been spreading at an unrelenting pace in Tennessee and this region in particular. By many accounts, this is the worst possible place to be in the world right now for risk of infection. Even before the break, the surge in cases prompted officials to shuffle students in some schools back to all-remote instruction in hopes of mitigating the spread.