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New owners plan to carry on Northshire’s legacy | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS General Manager Nancy Scheemake, of Shushan, places order for a customer for curbside pickup order at Northshire Bookstore on Broadway in Saratoga Springs on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Customers can order curbside pickup or free shipping orders due to quarantined and social distancing. Shares0 Northshire Bookstore might have new owners, but that should be the only change customers will notice.  “[You’ll] walk in and it’ll feel like your familiar, comfortable, wonderful Northshire it’s always been,” said Cl...

news@leaderherald.com A dad and his child play at one of the vintage pinball machines at Pastime Pinball. (Photo submitted) My memories of summers during my childhood in Gloversville in the 1960s and 70s are filled with riding my bicycle across town with friends to spend long days at Littauer Pool, exploring Melchoir and Myers parks, buying treats at Candy Kitchen with the change we found along the sidewalks and two-week stints at Camp Cramer-Burton, the day camp run jointly by the YMCA and YWCA where my big sister was an arts and crafts counselor. If it was a good year, the family would ven...

Northshire Bookstore Sold; New Owners Vow to “Continue the Legacy” Before the books, a drill driver. Chris Morrow at work outside Northshire Bookstore Saratoga, in advance of the bookstore’s opening in 2013. Photo by Thomas Dimopoulos. SARATOGA SPRINGS — Northshire Bookstore opened the doors to its Saratoga Springs store on an August day in 2013, affecting in innumerable positive ways the downtown landscape of the Spa City. This week, it begins a new chapter. “It is with excitement, confidence and sadness that I announce that the Northshire Bookstores are passing out of Morrow...

MANCHESTER — A Northshire institution will remain in local hands. Manchester's iconic Northshire Bookstore, widely heralded as one of the best independent bookstores anywhere, and its sister store in Saratoga Springs, New York, have been sold by the Morrow family to Clark and Lu French of Manchester. The sale was announced in a press release early Friday morning consisting of letters to the community by Chris Morrow, who currently runs the store; his parents Edward and Barbara Morrow, the founders of the original Northshire Bookstore in 1976, and the new owners. "It is with excitem...

Top 10 Times People Tried To Shut Down The Internet The internet is a vital part of modern life. Without web access, all kinds of businesses and jobs would be unable to function. So, as you can imagine, there are plenty of people who would love to see the internet crumble. Since Tim Berners-Lee launched the World Wide Web in the late 1980s, there have been numerous attempts to shut down the internet. Some of these attacks were carried out by coordinated military groups and governments in a bid for political control. Others consisted of one irate man ripping the wires out of a service box. Fro...