Lexington’s popular Parent-Teacher Store won’t close. A teacher and her husband bought it.

There’s good news about Lexington’s Parent-Teacher Store USA off Clays Mill Road that once had an uncertain future because the owner is retiring this year: A Fayette County teacher and her husband have bought it.

Bowling Green-based owner Stan Young said Friday that he and his wife Cody Young have sold the educational supply store on Partner Place as they look toward retirement. Chriss La Rue, a retired Navy commander told the Herald-Leader that he and his wife Meg La Rue, a fourth grade teacher at Lexington’s Lansdowne Elementary are purchasing it.

Chriss La Rue said Friday that the long-time staff at the store will remain employed there. He said the store will close to conduct inventory and for computer work from Feb. 26 through March 1, but will reopen on Monday March 2.

La Rue said he plans to do some “old fashioned marketing” to determine what customers want at what he described as the only parent-teacher store in Central and Eastern Kentucky.

He said his wife’s role as a teacher “brings an understanding of a product and understanding of the whole teaching process.”

Parents “who are looking to improve education,” La Rue said, are among the customers. Home school teachers, Sunday school teachers, day care owners and grandparents also frequent the store, which offers items aimed at children who range from infants to about middle school age, the store staff previously told the Herald-Leader.

The seller, Stan Young, meanwhile, said he is glad that the store is being sold rather than having to close.

“It’s in great hands,” said Young, “I really feel like with Chriss and his wife Meg, they will do an excellent job with that store.”