Lexington clothing boutique, Copper Lane on Main, has closed its doors for good.
Misty McMillion, who opened the store above Textür Salon & Wellness Spa at 113 N. Main St. in September 2020, said the store closed on Dec. 24, a few days shy of its four-month anniversary.
McMillion, who opened her first women s clothing store in Welcome in May 2020, said several reasons played into the closing of the Lexington location. Business never took off like her Welcome location, she said. One, we opened in the middle of a pandemic, she continued. Then everything with the Confederate monument happening in downtown. People were not coming to downtown to shop for months with the protests going on every day. Then so many big events were canceled because of COVID, where I could have gotten word out about the store... And so many people who usually work from offices in downtown are not doing that now. That all hurt businesses.
Davidson County Planning and Zoning director will retire Jan. 1
The Dispatch
For a man who loves history as much as Davidson County Planning and Zoning Director Guy Cornman, it s fascinating to listen to him spin tales of his family s history and see how it all circles back to him, Davidson County, community planning and a pandemic.
He ll dot the last i and cross the last t in his career s history on Dec. 31 when he retires from his position as the county s planning and zoning director and begins living the plans he has mapped out for retirement.
The Fayetteville native rolled into Lexington at age 4 in 1959 when his father was hired as the plant manager at the former Edgewood Casuals, a shirt manufacturer. This wasn t the first time his family had walked the ground of Davidson County or had a hand in the planning of the county s future. That began with his maternal grandfather, Karl Sloan.