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...Massachusetts State Legislature's imminent attempt to repeal the ban on buying liquor on Sundays is a long overdue move to repeal an obsolete and nonsensical law. Sunday "Blue Laws"--a remnant of Massachusetts' Puritan history--currently allow the sale of liquor on Sundays only within a 10-mile radius of the New Hampshire border and for six weeks during the holiday season...
...written, the bill would grant cities and towns the power to allow liquor stores within their borders to open for business on Sundays--a practice currently forbidden by state law except in communities that are within 10 miles of the Vermont and New Hampshire state lines...
...State law currently permits liquor stores to stay open on the six Sundays between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. But even then, Scali said, the extra business has not been spectacular...
...Most small businesses now have trouble with staffing as it is," said a manager of a local liquor store who asked to remain anonymous. "I'm not sure it would be worth our while to stay open, but if everyone else was, we'd probably have...
...According to Jeffrey A. Kaplan, manager of University Wines on Mass. Ave. near Porter Square, the new law would be more significant for retailers in the vicinity of the state line who face competition from New Hampshire and Vermont liquor stores that are permitted to stay open on Sundays...