It’s that time of year again. What time is it do you ask? Why the popcorn? It’s Black Friday this week. It’s the time of year that we see the best in people and the worse in people. The popcorn is for watching the show that is about to be put on by the madness that is Black Friday. There will be a truck full of videos of people acting the fool.
Thanksgiving is finally here in the year 2020, and what a year it has been. Wow. Is it over yet? But seriously, even in a year that has included a pandemic, we have so much for which to be thankful. In some ways, this year has lasted a lifetime for me, but in other ways, it has flown by. I recall getting engaged this time last year, thinking our wedding would be a long time away--it is about four weeks away now! That is unreal to me.
I am thrilled that our newspaper is published on Thanksgiving Day. We usually gain new subscribers from the families and friends of our readers who drop in for the Thanksgiving holiday. We like to think of our small-town newspaper as a peak inside a town that has an interesting mix of people, unique places to visit and a bunch of stories that reveal the resilience of this community.
It was the evening before Thanksgiving, and David stood in the stage wing ready to make his entrance. It was to be his debut performance at one of the biggest, most famous concert halls in the world.
Millions of small businesses have had a difficult year in 2020. As the novel coronavirus COVID-19 spread across the globe, governments all over the world took unprecedented measures to prevent the virus from claiming more lives. Public health measures like social distancing undoubtedly saved lives, but small businesses bore the brunt of the economic impact of such measures.
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