UPDATE: Judson-Atkinson Candies hopes to resume production by Jan.
When Amy Atkinson Voltz, president of Judson-Atkinson Candies, Inc., realized her confectionery company needed to halt manufacturing -- at least temporarily -- she felt the ripple effects almost immediately.
“It’s hard when you have to call all your employees in,” she says. “We’ve got people here that worked for the company before we ever bought it. We bought it in 1983, there were people that had worked here for 50 years and I had to tell them that we’re not going to make candy now. That’s really hard.”