Virus-closures keep some local businesses down for the count

Visitors walk past the former site of Montana Marketplace on Wednesday afternoon on Main Street in Kalispell. (Mackenzie Reiss/Daily Inter Lake)

Mountain Cinemas in Whitefish closed down due to financial hardships brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. (Mackenzie Reiss/Daily Inter Lake)

by BRET ANNE SERBIN
Daily Inter Lake | August 14, 2020 1:00 AM

By the end of March, the COVID-19 outbreak had closed the doors to most small businesses in the Flathead Valley — some of them, for good.

Restaurants, fitness studios and small shops have all folded under the weight of mandatory business closures, a trickle of customers and a sluggish system for accessing government assistance...

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