By WHAV Staff |
December 16, 2020
Pat Lane has been with the business since he was in high school. (WHAV News photograph.)
A Haverhill institution Arthur Sharp Hardware is closing by Christmas and its Middlesex Street property is expected to give rise to 12 waterfront apartments.
Patrick J. Lane, who first went to work for the store when he was a 16-year-old Haverhill High School student, is retiring after being associated with the business nearly 50 years.
“After high school, I became manager for Arthur Sharp, who owned it prior to me, and then when he was retirement age, I bought it from him back in 1982. So, I’ve owned it for the last 38 and a half years,” he noted.