Springfield bar, restaurant owners uncertain about future as mitigations begin Sunday

This year’s Saint Patrick’s Day was hardly a celebration for Tim Timoney.On what’s normally the busiest bar day of the year, The Corner Pub owner found himself leading a staff meeting where he was forced to lay off 35 of his 45 employees ahead of a state-mandated shutdown of indoor service at bars and restaurants. That shutdown, initially for two weeks, ended up lasting nearly three months.”These individuals live paycheck to paycheck,” Timoney said. […]