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City Barber Shop owner Marcelle Lowry prepares her final customer, David Westmoreland, to get his hair cut at the end of the shop’s last day of business Thursday, Feb. 22. The barber shop, which Lowry ran for the past 30 years, was a staple of downtown Ellijay’s business community for more than a century. Westmoreland, a former Ellijay mayor and city councilmember, had been going there since childhood. “It was an honor,” he said about being asked to be Lowry’s last customer. The North Main Street building in which the barber shop operated has been sold and is scheduled to become a restaurant.