L.L.Bean joins retailers, state parks in new wave of openings

VIRUS OUTBREAK-MAINE

 

FREEPORT, Maine (AP) — L.L. Bean is reopening its shuttered 24-hour store in Freeport that has been closed for two-and-a-half months because of the pandemic. The outdoors retailer already reopened its hunting and fishing store, and bike, boat and ski store. On Monday, its flagship store that’s normally open 365 days a year will be reopening. It was the first time the flagship store closed for more than 24 hours, and only the fifth time the store closed. Elsewhere in Maine, state parks reopened, but the organizers of the Fryeburg Fair announced that event is postponed. Maine has had more than 2,300 cases of the virus.