LA County opens for business today, owners, employees cautiously optimistic as COVID-19 restrictions largely end – Pasadena Star News

Life began returning, for the most part, to pre-pandemic normalcy in Los Angeles County and across California Tuesday, June 15 — with folks feeling a mix of apprehension and excitement about it.

All but a few of the state’s coronavirus-induced restrictions, which have limited indoor capacity in businesses and required residents to wear masks and keep a safe distance from those outside their household, lifted Tuesday, June 15, and elected officials, business owners and other folks celebrated the occasion.

• People took to Hermosa Beach and the strand without masks on Tuesday June 15, 2021 as California officially reopened from COVID19 restrictions. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer)

• People took to Hermosa Beach and the strand without masks on Tuesday June 15, 2021 as California officially reopened from COVID19 restrictions. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer)

• People took to Hermosa Beach and the strand without masks on…

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