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Nick and Jessica Bohnsack, the new owners of Sheridan Stationery Books and Gallery in Sheridan, Wyo., are moving the bookstore to a new location, the Sheridan Press reported.
The new space will be further north on Sheridan's Main Street, and while it will no longer be right in Sheridan's downtown, the store will have dedicated parking and more square footage. The store has closed for the move, and the Bohnsacks hope to reopen by June 1. They plan to expand the book inventory and help support local microbusinesses by offering shelf space for their products.
Jessica Bohnsack, who has been a retail manager for a greenhouse, nursery and landscaping company for 15 years, will handle bookstore operations. Nick Bohnsack will continue working full-time for the railroad.
Purchasing the store, Bohnsack told the Press, came about very suddenly. Roughly eight weeks ago she told an acquaintance that if Robby and John Smith, the former owners of Sheridan Stationery, Books and Gallery, ever retired, she'd be interested in buying the bookstore. Although Bohnsack thought this would happen in a few years, the Smiths were already in the process of retiring. The Bohnsacks and the Smiths met, and then things happened very quickly.
"I figured it would be a couple of years, but it was the next day," Bohnsack said, who has always wanted to own a business of her own. "For me, it was a chance to follow the path that was out in front of me. If it worked, it worked. If not, it wasn't meant to be."