As college towns empty out, small businesses struggle for survival

For about 10 days, things felt like they were back to normal for Jim Kitchen's frozen yogurt shop on Chapel Hill’s main drag, a quick walk from the University of North Carolina's main campus. Lines ran around the block as thousands of students buzzed along Franklin Street, the historic thoroughfare lined with bars, restaurants, coffee shops and music stores. The energy was short lived. Kitchen, also a professor of entrepreneurship at the university, said the campus was akin to a ghost town when…