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June 15, 2020, 8:23 PM UTC

College Towns Fear Covid-19 Will Leave Them as Ghost Towns (1)

Janet Lorin
Janet Lorin
Bloomberg News
Reade Pickert
Reade Pickert
Bloomberg News

Colleges bring a certain indefinable something to college towns. They also bring at least two definable somethings: students and sports. Without those, many college towns would become ghost towns.

If students don’t return to campuses in the fall because of Covid-19, families won’t visit and patronize hotels, restaurants and shops. If the fall football season is canceled or played with curtailed seating, fans won’t be arriving by the thousands and spending by the millions.

Small businesses in towns like Easton, Pennsylvania, the home of Lafayette College, rely not only on a steady revenue stream from students and college employees, but ...

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