MONROE — Doris Ritenour had tears in her eyes, while recalling how she had to close her new business, Hair by Doris in Gaslight Square on Monroe Turnpike, soon after opening it last year, because of restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic. “We opened like a week and they shut us down,” she told guests at the Monroe Chamber of Commerce’s annual dinner and meeting, held under a tent outside the Monroe Diner Wednesday night. “I thought I was going home for two weeks, three weeks … no. I was going nuts for four months.”
