📚Longtime bookstore finds new owners

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📚After 29 years, independent Hanover bookstore the Reader's Cafe finds new owners

After nearly three decades, a longtime Hanover cafe and bookstore has been sold, the business reported.

The Reader's Cafe, located on Broadway in downtown Hanover, was sold to a new owner, said owners Derf and Mary Ann Maitland in a social media announcement.

With new ownership, the business will reopen under a new name, Little Fox Coffee & Books, on Aug. 1, the post said.

Read more here.

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Things to do: Reptile invasion!

• Where: The Markets at Hanover, 1649 Broadway, Hanover
• When: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, July 27

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I had the chance to meet some of Reptile Invasion's scaly friends at the Experience Codorus Outdoors event this year, where I met Max, a spiny-tailed iguana that was once on a Saturday Night Live skit!

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If any of y'all have feedback, pet photos, or questions, feel free to send them over to my email at hjones@gannett.com ! I will do my best to answer any questions if I can, and I will be happy to highlight any comments y'all might have.

That's it for your Thursday Daily Briefing! See you on friday!

This article originally appeared on Hanover Evening Sun: 📚Longtime bookstore finds new owners