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Tues. 8:20 pm: Girard hopeful to fill vacant storefronts

GIRARD – With several local businesses closing in recent months, including one that was a staple for more than 50 years south of downtown, city officials are hopeful new businesses will be moving in.

Girard Mayor Jim Melfi said this week the city recently saw the closing of Kuzman’s, which was for more than 50 years a popular polka dancing site. The Santisi’s IGA Marketplace closed after 75 years last fall and the Fire Grill Restaurant closed last month.

“In its day when all the mills were open, I remember all the cars that used to be parked at Kuzman’s. People for the past 50 or 60 years would go there. It was the place people went to to dance the polka,” Melfi said.

Melfi said after the death of its owner, John Kuzman in 2010, his wife, Helen, ran the business. Helen, 87, passed away last month, leaving the business to her family who closed it for a few weeks while they decided what to do. A sign was posted recently on the building saying “For Sale.”

Read more in Wednesday’s Tribune Chronicle.

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