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May 22, 2021
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Soap-Making Hobby Becomes A Business During Pandemic

by LuAnn Mason

Michelle Phelps would not be a small business owner today had the onset of the COVID-19 virus not happened.

“It made the time to do it,” said Phelps, a longtime hairdresser in Shelbyville. “When COVID happened, beauticians got laid off and we couldn’t work. So, it was the perfect time to…

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