Beer and trivia. Music with dinner. Yoga and a cocktail.
It will now be easier for breweries, distilleries and restaurants under 10,000 square feet to provide entertainment. The City of Frederick Board of Alderman unanimously approved an ordinance that would allow entertainment as long as it was inside, at least 500 feet away from residential properties — if not in a few specific zones — and was between a set time period, depending on the day.
Local establishment owners hailed the passing of the ordinance as a way of staying competitive with the Baltimore and D.C. markets.
For musicians, especially, the ordinance means more venues in a city that lost three in a span of a couple months.
Business reporter Erika Riley spoke with Andrew Bromhal, of Silent Old Mtns., about the ordinance, as well as a bartender at Olde Mother, where the band was playing.
Then editor Allen Etzler joins producer Heather Mongilio for a quick recap of the rest of the week in news.
And food and education reporter Katryna Perera joins Mongilio to talk about her latest food review. This time, she went to Foster's on the Point in Hagerstown.