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Amissville Market is on a roll

by | Feb 1, 2025

Sweets display at the Amissville Market. (Photo/Ireland Hayes)
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Community support is ‘fantastic’

The Amissville Market recently celebrated one month of business, and owner Jessica Hall said she has received an outpouring of support from the community.

“The reception from the community has been fantastic, and it’s really nice to see people enjoy coming in and having a place where they don’t have to commute to go and have a meal together,” Hall said. “It’s been really sweet.”

The store — which officially opened at the end of December — is located in the historic Hackley’s General Store and offers fresh-made sandwiches, soups, coffee, baked goods and quiches, featuring different specials each day of the week.

Hall owned the Raven’s Nest Coffeehouse in Culpeper for 14 years, and said it feels good to be back in the kitchen again.

“I love coming back to the kitchen and cooking, that’s been really fun,” Hall said. “And we’ll see where it goes.”

 

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By Ireland Hayes

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Ireland joined Foothills Forum as a full-time reporter in 2023 after graduating from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication with a degree in journalism and minor in music. As a student, she gained valuable experience in reporter and editor positions at The Red & Black, an award-winning student newspaper, and contributed to Grady Newsource and the Athens Banner-Herald. She spent three years as an editorial assistant at Georgia Magazine, UGA’s quarterly alumni publication, and interned with The Bitter Southerner. Growing up in a small town in Southeast Georgia, Ireland developed a deep appreciation for rural communities and the unique stories they have to tell. She completed undergraduate research on news deserts, ghost papers and the ways rural communities in Georgia are being forced to adapt to a lack of local news. This research further sparked her interest in a career contributing to the preservation of local and rural news.