Amid pandemic, small businesses struggle, await funding and get creative

Dan Curland in his record store, Mystic Disc, on Saturday, Apriil 11, 2020, in downtown Mystic. The store is closed other than by appointment and mail orders due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

The owners of Fields of Fire, The Bowerbird, Bank Square Books, Joshua's Limousine and more share their experiences.

Restaurants get creative to bring some money in the door

Server Danielle Drea helps customer Evan Winalski with an order Friday, April 10, 2020, at The Shack restaurant in East Lyme. To accommodate safe distancing rules, the restaurant has cleared its dining area and placed tables 6 feet apart to give customers waiting for their takeout order guidance on how to stay apart. Staffing is reduced to allow each staff member room to work without overlapping. Owner Jeremy Han also says that all touch surfaces are disinfected after each customer. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Business is way down — but so are some expenses.

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Pandemic or no, delivery drivers bring the goods to you

Staceyann Seay, a delivery agent for fuddelivery.com, leaves Toyo Hibachi in Colchester on Friday, April 3, 2020, to make two deliveries to homes in Lebanon. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Füd Delivery and Fisher Florist, with some adjustments, continue bringing food and flowers to people amid the coronavirus crisis.

550 sailors aboard Navy carrier Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive for coronavirus

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U.S. death toll tops 20,000, overtakes Italy's as Midwest braces

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Virus in New England: Mobile hospital at Conn. Convention Center

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Family friends Zahimara Merz, second from right, and Heather Wallace, partially blocked from view, second from left, both of East Lyme, chat while their their children Elianna Wallace, 13, left, and Abriel Garcia, 14, right, stand by their family vehicles listening, while they all practice social distancing Saturday, April 11, 2020, in the parking lot of McCook Point Park in East Lyme. Heather and Zahimara said they hadn't seen each other in a couple of weeks and both families had cabin fever, so they decided grab their kids and meet at the park. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Daily COVID-19 update from Lamont: daily tests up, new hospitalizations down

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Local Sports
Mitchell College has started construction on a new $3.5 million athletic complex, a facility with multiple turf fields for baseball, sotball, men's and women's soccer and men's and women's lacrosse. The complex will also be used for intramural sports and physical education classes. (Photo courtesty of Mitchell College athletics)

Mitchell begins work on new outdoor athletic complex

Local Columns

Cries for help from Electric Boat's COVID-19 horror show

EB workers are fearful about going to work, where they say conditions permit the continuing spread of the coronavirus.

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A&E/Music
The Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam has had to cancel and postpone several productions amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Courtesy of Goodspeed Opera House)

With 'Anne' postponement, 5 of Goodspeed's 6 shows have been canceled or moved to 2021

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Influenza ward at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 1, 1918. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Things could be worse. Black Death killed up to 200 million, 1918 flu claimed 50 million

Nation/World News
A man and child wearing protective masks pass an encouraging message 'Chicago Stay Strong,' chalked outside on a Roscoe Village neighborhood pub by artist Heather Gentile Collins, while people continue to contract COVID-19 in Chicago, Saturday, April 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

U.S. death toll tops 20,000, overtakes Italy's as Midwest braces

A&E/Music
Don Winslow (Robert Gallagher)

Rhody native Don Winslow's "Broken" features six novellas

Business
Scott Gladstone, center, Bryan Grandieri, left, Bob Grandieri, right, and staff Friday, April 10, 2020, in front of the Maxum Irrigation & Plumbing headquarters in Waterford. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Maxum adds plumbing to its skill set

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New London Rotary donates 500 student activity bags, supports Lyman Allyn’s online arts education

Rotary Club of New London donates 500 activity bags.

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Kris Grills plays a medly of patriotic songs on the bagpipes for neighbors as he walks along Starr Street in New London

Kris Grills plays a medly of patriotic songs on the bagpipes for neighbors as he walks along Starr Street in New London
New London group makes nightly noise in show of unity

New London group makes nightly noise in show of unity
Quaker Hill teachers and staff on parade

Quaker Hill teachers and staff on parade
Therapy dog finds new way to visit nursing home residents

Therapy dog finds new way to visit nursing home residents
Evan Tower - All-Area Hockey Player of the Year

Evan Tower - All-Area Hockey Player of the Year
Local music students gather together in song on Sunday as they play

Local music students gather together in song on Sunday as they play "America the Beautiful" from their front porch and doorways
Aedan Using - All-Area Boys' Basketball Player of the Year

Aedan Using - All-Area Boys' Basketball Player of the Year
Sophie Dubrieul - All-Area Girls' Basketball Player of the Year

Sophie Dubrieul - All-Area Girls' Basketball Player of the Year
Brayden Grim - All-Area Wrestler of the Year

Brayden Grim - All-Area Wrestler of the Year

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OPINION

For Connecticut and for neighbors in a time of crisis

Don't let Trump gut coronavirus relief bill protections

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Sanders' next moves will determine his legacy

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Electric Boat COVID-19 response was too slow and inadequate

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Navy secretary's resignation in order, reconsider carrier captain's case

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EB doing a great job protecting workers

Sanders was right, big changes needed

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Columnist Paul Choiniere
Paul Choiniere

How will COVID-19 election play out?

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Columnist Robert Tougias
Robert Tougias

In need of a temporary refuge in troubling times

Columnist Mike DiMauro
Mike DiMauro

All-Decade softball team features Gatorade variety pack

Columnist David Collins
David Collins

Cries for help from Electric Boat's COVID-19 horror show

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Columnist Rick Koster
Rick Koster

Rick's List — The Plagues of History Edition

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Columnist Steve Fagin
Steve Fagin

Hunkering outdoors

Columnist Lee Elci
Lee Elci

Tying infant death to COVID-19 was needlessly alarmist

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Firefighters at the scene of a house fire Saturday, April 11, 2020, at 35 Lincoln Drive, Gales Ferry. The fire was at the back of the house with extension toward the attic. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Gales Ferry home unlivable after fire

Daily COVID-19 update from Lamont: daily tests up, new hospitalizations down

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Municipal meetings

New London Rotary donates 500 student activity bags, supports Lyman Allyn’s online arts education

Police logs - April 12, 2020

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Mitchell College has started construction on a new $3.5 million athletic complex, a facility with multiple turf fields for baseball, sotball, men's and women's soccer and men's and women's lacrosse. The complex will also be used for intramural sports and physical education classes. (Photo courtesty of Mitchell College athletics)

Mitchell begins work on new outdoor athletic complex

Checking in with ... Andrew Koziol (Griswold)

UConn 2021 women's recruit Poffenbarger adds versatility to her game

ARTS

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Review: A look at offerings on new mobile platform Quibi

Rosario Dawson relishes being the lead on a TV drama

Review: Sufjan Stevens and stepfather experiment on 'Aporia'

Review: Reissue of 1982 Nina Simone disc a work of contrasts

'Saturday Night Live' to air show, observe social distancing

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A person wearing a protective mask and gloves rides a bicycle through the Meatpacking District of New York, on April 8, 2020. (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg)

The $90 trillion question is how to get people back to work

Maxum adds plumbing to its skill set

Amid pandemic, small businesses struggle, await funding and get creative

Restaurants get creative to bring some money in the door

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Edmunds: Safe ways to car shop during the pandemic

NATION/WORLD

Pope Francis presides over a solemn Easter vigil ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica empty of the faithful following Italy’s ban on gatherings to contain coronavirus contagion, at the Vatican, Saturday, April 11, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Remo Casilli/Pool Photo via AP)

Pope says Easter gives hope in our 'darkest hour,' despite fear

550 sailors aboard Navy carrier Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive for coronavirus

Things could be worse. Black Death killed up to 200 million, 1918 flu claimed 50 million

U.S. death toll tops 20,000, overtakes Italy's as Midwest braces

France reports dozens of heart incidents linked to drug promoted by Trump

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STATE/NORTHEAST

A man rides a bicycle on Day Boulevard, which has been closed to traffic to reduce crowding on the adjacent sidewalk and allow social distancing, Saturday, April 11, 2020, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Virus in New England: Mobile hospital at Conn. Convention Center

Nurses finish overnight shift, find their car tires slashed

Tracking NYC's coronavirus fight, from 911 call to ER door

POLITICS

President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, Friday, April 10, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump calls reopening economy ‘biggest decision of my life’; advisers urge against rushing

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