8.20.21 | Coronavirus, Around Town
Offering more money or other perks hasn’t increased the number of employment applications, local business owners say.
Crook’s Corner came so close to surviving the pandemic. The governor had lifted COVID-19 restrictions. Restaurants had begun welcoming diners back inside, and people hungry for a night out and a meal prepared by a professional came ready to… read more
Visitors’ smartphones become time portals showing what was in buildings decades ago. read more
The 40-year-old restaurant locked up after dinner Tuesday night and the next afternoon announced it would not reopen. read more
Jamil Kadoura provided the food for the grand opening of West End Wine Bar in 1997. Since then, the owner of Mediterranean Deli, a few storefronts away on West Franklin Street, has catered more than 200 weddings there. West End owner Jared… read more
Jamil Kadoura provided the food for the grand opening of West End Wine Bar in 1997. Since then, the owner of Mediterranean Deli a few storefronts away on West Franklin Street has catered more than 200 weddings at the bar. West End owner Jared… read more
With the pandemic economy hitting Fusion Fish in Meadowmont pretty hard, just as it has the rest of the restaurant industry, and with Fusion Fish’s lease coming up for renewal, co-owner Yung Nay decided to go out on his own. He transferred his… read more
The COVID-19 pandemic has made keeping a distance a way of life. But for chef Dan Jackson ’03, it also has presented an opportunity to fulfill a dream close to home. read more
Ye Olde Waffle Shoppe — closed “temporarily” since late March after the state’s COVID-19 pandemic restrictions closed public dining rooms — announced in December it would not reopen. Its owners and longtime employees had hoped they… read more
The lid on a Franklin Street culinary time capsule snapped shut just after Thanksgiving when Ye Olde Waffle Shoppe announced it would not reopen. read more