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Longtime Mill Valley Resident Revives Once Around Craft Shop, Moves it Downtown

"I did this because I believe that Mill Valley needs this kind of business," she says.

Longtime Mill Valley resident Louise Dockstader was on vacation in July with a friend and her family in Provence in southern France when she saw an email would change her life.

The email was from Julie Stanton, the owner of the Once Around arts and crafts shop on Miller Ave., informing customers that she was closing the store due to a personal crisis. Dockstader’s reaction was echoed by a bevy of parents and kids all over town: “That can’t happen!”

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