[Marilyn]

Academy is an outdoors/sporting good store. Here's a link to their website. http://www.academy.com/

It was a big deal for our town to get an Academy. All we had for sporting goods prior to that were the locally owned shops or Walmart. There were rumors that Academy was moving in for years and that one of the locals who was politically connected was keeping them out. The big chains are moving in everywhere. They can't be kept out forever.