Openings

Pineapple Ink Tavern has been closed for renovations and repairs since January, but owner, Allan Soto and his team are excited to show guests the changes they’ve made to the restaurant. Located at 1002 Broad St., the restaurant will celebrate its grand reopening on Wednesday, July 6. Pineapple Ink, which opened just before the pandemic began in 2020, serves a variety of entrees, including soups, sandwiches, salads, desserts, and drinks. Updates will include new artwork and a Cuban-inspired menu based, in part at least, on Soto’s Cuban heritage. “We are

Two local business partners have taken on the onerous task of turning a 150-year-old house into an antique shop. Daniel Edwards and Kevin DeLaigle (or de l’Aigle, the family name’s original French spelling) are breathing new life into the DeLaigle House located at 551 Greene St., across the street from the Augusta-Richmond County Municipal Building. The four-story, 7,300-square-foot home was built in 1873 by DeLaigle’s great-great-aunt, Mary Clark DeLaigle, the widow of a Confederate Civil War soldier. It has been transformed into Edwards Mercantile & Company, which sells a variety

When Lance Danko needs stress relief, he goes book shopping, which is why he was happy when Books-A-Million reopened in Aiken late last week. Danko, administrator for Augusta University Health Imaging, and his wife have already visited the new store located at 1650 Richland Ave. West, Suite 195 near Rose’s and Hibbett Sports in the Kalmia Plaza shopping center. “It’s one of the few bookstores left besides Barnes & Noble in Augusta where you can really go in and look around,” he said. Books-A-Million had a store in the Aiken

Dave Barrett owns appliance stores on the East and West coasts, but in early July, he plans to open a fourth store in the former Earth Fare building located at 368 Furys Ferry Road, Suite 3 in Augusta. Barrett, the owner of Dave’s Appliance Warehouse, has one store just outside of Athens and two more in Orange County, California. He sells both new and B-Stock appliances, which refer to scratch-and-dent items and canceled orders, among others he buys from major companies. Unlike other appliance stores, Barrett won’t sell used items.