Amid COVID-19, mom-and-pops in N.C.’s craft alcohol businesses struggle to keep the lights on

Keeping the lights on. That’s the popular theme, for businesses — small and large — throughout the country. Throughout North Carolina. “Our No. 1 aim,” says Stuart Arnold, president of Fortnight Brewing Co. in Cary. Arnold was sitting in the brewery’s dark taproom, devoid of customers. Several workers, headed inside and out, passed him as...