Local businesses make Valentine’s Day sweet

Love can’t be captured or confined to February 14, but the holiday provides a welcome occasion for expressing appreciation.

Maybe you’ll find yourself standing outside your ex-flame’s apartment on Saturday night, flinging pebbles at their window and declaring your unrequited love, but this time of year, local businesses bank on a surge in happier demonstrations of affection.

On Wednesday, Granite State Candy Shoppe production manager Justin Abbott dipped fresh strawberries into milk chocolate followed by heart-shaped sprinkles in preparation for Valentine’s Day.

Heart-shaped boxes filled the store and a Minion plushie, decorated with hearts and four-leaf clovers in expectation of not one but two holidays, watched on.

On Valentine’s Day, visitors can watch the production of desserts at the shop’s retail location on Hall Street.

Love, romantic and platonic, comes in all shapes and sizes. Local businesses count on your appreciation, too.

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