Bookstore owner George Nye drove 489 miles to downtown Gainesville last week from the mountains of North Carolina so he could set up a lawn chair and wait. Nye, owner of Got Books! in Shelby, N.C., ...
Customers waited in a line that stretched for more than a block on the opening day of the fall Friends of the Library book sale on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. “It’s quite overwhelming whenever you think ...