Sylva’s City Lights Bookstore changing hands
Owners Joyce and Allen Moore are selling the store to longtime employee Chris Wilcox, effective January 1.
Moore informed her customers of the change in a letter written on Monday, in which she wrote, in part:
As I begin my 66th year and a new decade, I feel the need to slow and simplify my own life, but I believe that I am leaving the store in capable hands, well suited to dealing with the evolving complexities of the bookselling world.
The Moores bought the store from local author Gary Carden in 1986, and moved it from Main Street to its current location at the corner of Spring St. and East Jackson St. a few years later.
In her letter, Moore also wrote:
Chris and his employees will also be facing many changes. Some are beginning to affect not only the face of the bookselling world, but even the book itself. It will take hard work, a constant acquisition of new information, flexibility and most of all, your continuing support to carry City Lights into the new decade.
Many independent bookstores across the country are closing in these economic hard times, but you have continued to say with your dollars that having a real bookstore in Sylva is important to you. It is essential that you continue that commitment, not only to City Lights, but to all the independent businesses in downtown Sylva.
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Very cool. Good luck to Chris. We’re lucky to have a good local bookstore. Glad it will keep going under capable hands.