Bookstore staying put

Though handmade signs announcing a “Retirement Sale” have some passersby concerned about the shuttering of downtown landmark The Bookstore, current manager Josh Mills wants to assure customers it is not closing.

Mills, who has worked there for 22 years, will become the new owner following the retirement of Ron Barrett around the first of the year. Barrett opened the store in 1976 at 337 Broadway and moved to the current location at 118 Main St. in 1992. The store has been featured in Sunset magazine twice and named one of “The Top Four Best Used Bookstores in Northern California.”

“There will be incremental changes, but overall it will be the same used-book store that everybody loves,” Mills said of his vision for the business.