Starkville aldermen voted unanimously Friday mandating restaurants to serve customers via takeout, drive-through and delivery only, and restricting social and business gatherings to 10 people or fewer in an effort to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
"I don't think any of us here takes this lightly because we know that when we do this, we're impacting individuals' wages, their jobs, their well-being," Ward 2 Alderman Sandra Sistrunk said in the special-call meeting. "We recognize
Tess Vrbin was previously a reporter for The Dispatch.
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