Aaron Gaeddert has owned Prairy Market and Deli for six years — and this year has been the most difficult for his downtown grocery store and event center. "It was plenty tough," Gaddert said. "It has been really difficult. It did not feel like that at the very beginning — we were allowed to stay open as an essential business. It seemed like it was contained, and we had to mix some things up." During a full business shutdown earlier this year designed to slow the spread of COVID-19, most downtown business were shuttered for weeks...
