Opinion

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.