🔒From the Editor: As pandemic gets entrenched, businesses find ways to adapt

The timing of this small business issue comes at a time when small businesses are in disarray, struggling to find their way during the COVID-19 crisis.

Yet, as the stories in this issue show, businesses are not standing still. We offer numerous cases of businesses pivoting to make hand sanitizer, to offer curbside pickup, to help other businesses.

Our cover story, by Laurie Schreiber, offers the example of Allen Manufacturing in Lewiston, which pivoted to make face shields and face masks. As the owner says, they’re not in it for the money. But they’ve been able to keep their employees on the payroll and make a key contribution. See Page 18.