- December 25, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
We greeted 2021 in the throes of a major uptick of coronavirus cases in which many local retailers were forced to revert to a grab-and-go business model and a wide swath of employees continued to work from home.
Twelve months later, 2021 is ending with fears over a new variant that is much more transmissible.
But for the most part, 2021 was a year when the local economy rebounded from the depths of COVID-19, thanks to an aggressive vaccination effort that mitigated the pandemic along with stimulus dollars from federal and state sources.
Things aren’t completely back to normal. But there were bright spots: Unemployment dropped. Tourists returned. Customers went shopping. And notable businesses implemented growth plans.
The regional economy also was boosted with no significant wildfires nor smoke in Sonoma County that resulted in poor air quality.
Here are Sonoma County’s top 10 business stories for 2021:
1. Economy gets back to near normal….
