Effective today, the Bennington Bookshop, Bennington, Vt., is under new ownership. Linda Foulsham and Phil Lewis, who moved from North Carolina, succeeded longtime owners Rick and Ellen Havlak, who posted on the store's Facebook page: "In the past 35 years we have grown from the little hole-in-the-wall at 414 Main Street in 1979 to our beautiful space at 467 Main Street--the place we have called home for the last 20 years.
"The Bennington Bookshop is the oldest independent bookstore in Vermont, so we are pleased to see that our business will survive and hopefully thrive into the next decade and beyond."
An open house will take place on Friday to give customers the opportunity to meet the new owners.
