Putting cows on the front page since 1885.
Putting cows on the front page since 1885.
Pictured are employees from the Village Closet and Country Store. Front row, from left, Betsy Corle, Laura Rhodes, Janice Colbert, Amanda Butler. Second row, from left, Emma Byler, Pam Claycomb, Stephene Weyandt, Rhonda Miller, Jaycie Butler. Back row, Tammy Daughenbaugh. Absent from photo: Chloe Wiedemann, Christie Hellwig, and Amy Martin
Back in 1989, two local sisters, Iris Stern and Janice (Jan) Colbert, had a dream of owning their own store. After lots of planning and hard work, they set that dream in motion. The Village Closet originally opened as a consignment shop in the village of McKee in the building currently housing The Cut on November 15, 1989. One year later, The Village Closet moved to just outside Martinsburg along route 164 in the plaza then known as Towne's Edge Exchange, owned by Don & Shirley Weyandt.
Sadly, on January 30, 1994, Stern unexpectedly passed away and Colbert became sole proprietor of the busines...
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