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By George Rowann
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Soon you may not be able to tell the players without a scorecard ... or the businesses in Old Town Warren ton by their current locations. A game of musical chairs is about to take place.
Businesses are leaving their current locations for new ones both in and out of town and at least one is shutting its doors for good.
Gone away
The biggest impact will happen at the building at First and Main Streets. Currently housing six businesses, two, Emma’s and Back In The Woods, will leave within weeks.
For Beth Rogers, owner of Emma’s, the move is strictly personal. Her lease is running out, and she wanted to spend more time with her family.
“I’m going to be a full-time mom to a three-and-one-half year old,” Rogers said. This is something I can come back to when she’s in school. Just yesterday there was ballet and a swim class. I’m very happy with my decision, and it took me a year to make it.”
Back In The Woods was a store unlike many others. Books and especially imaginative puppets filled the place. The store hosted a spectacular midnight party when the latest Harry Potter book came out a couple of years ago. Now owner Better Sherman is heading south.
“My rent is paid until the fifteenth of September,” Sherman said, “and I will be moving to Blairsville, Georgia, about an hour and a half northeast of Atlanta.”
There she intends to resurrect her store, though on a smaller scale. She was sharp in her criticism of what she sees going on.
“I’m don’t like what’s happening,” she said. “Border’s is coming in, and if they don’t Warrenton is going to be left without a book store. They kept raising my rent, here and at home, and my sales weren’t that good [to afford the increases].”
Still the optimistic Sherman was eager to begin a new phase of her life.
“I turned 71 yesterday, and I deserve to play a little bit,” she said.
Still, she is going to miss Warrenton.
“I do enjoy putting a good book in a child’s hand,” she said.
Jim Timberlake, who owns the building, said that he did not have tenants to fill the two
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