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Swampscott businesses trying to survive COVID era
Linda Werbner
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“I’m hanging on by a shoestring,” said Lisa Boemer, owner of The Hiccup, Inc., a quirky Swampscott gift shop when asked how her fledgling business is faring nearly a year into the pandemic. “It’s day by day.”
To add to her worries, Boemer recently learned that she does not qualify either for the small business loans or small business grants being administered through the Swampscott Community and Economic Development Department because she opened her shop on Feb. 29, two weeks after the Feb. 15 cut-off date.
The Swampscott Reporter s top 10 stories of 2020
Most read articles are an eclectic mix in a year like no other
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From ‘Vinnie the turkey grinding traffic to a halt in Vinnin Square to the town’s initial Black Lives Matter protest, the Swampscott Reporter’s most-read stories are a wide-ranging bunch.
They were written in a year like no other, so without further adieu, find the newspaper’s most-read stories in 2020 in a countdown from 10 to one below.
The children combated isolation and social-distancing drawing pictures with chalk on the Orchard Circle sidewalks and asphalt.