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Here & Now Boutique Closing

The downtown boutique, Here & Now closing down

Ariana Harrington, Contributor • September 4, 2025

Here & Now Boutique, located here in Graham, unfortunately, closed down about a week ago, on August 15, 2025. After spending about 5.5 years running her own business, Sydney Hughes made the tough decision to close her store. Here & Now was known for its cute and trendy clothes. The store also included jewelry, home gifts, and fragrances. They were also inclusive with their staff, hiring high school students. Below, you can read the Facebook post that Sydney Hughes posted for the community, explaining her reasoning for the closure.

“To all my loyal and loving customers and friends. First and foremost I want to thank you all for allowing one of my biggest dreams to come to come true. In 2019 I moved back to my hometown witht the hopes of opening my own boutique on the downtown square. I have spent the 5.5 years of life pouringmy entire heart into this dream. Many moves, remodels, and changes later, I have found myself stepping into a new chapter of life.
My husband and I will be welcoming our daughter in October, and I know it’s time to put my full focus this next season of life that we have been praying & waiting for. With that, Here & Now will be officially closing the doors of the shop at the end of August. This has not been an easy decision whatsoever, but I know it is right and it is time. I will never be able to fully express my gratitude for all the relationships and memories I have made thanks to you all. This is definitely a bittersweet decision, and I know I will miss the daily interactions at the shop with you all! It will be an adjustment but I am ready and excited for what is ahead!
Be on the lookout for our closing markdowns, followed by a fixture sale after we clear out the shop. We will also share official dates of closure when the fixture sale will begin based on how fast inventory goes. Please note that gift cards are non-refundable and need to be used before then!
My love and thanks to you all, Sydney Hughes.”

Sydney, if you read this, we will miss Here and Now. Thank you for enriching our community for all of these years.

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About the Contributor

Ariana Harrington, Contributor

Ariana Harrington is a senior in high school, even though she’s only 17, but it’s okay, she can’t help it. She’s not currently in any extracurricular activities, but plans on being in the newspaper and maybe even Art Club. Ariana’s very outgoing, but it takes her a little bit and open up to get to that point. She’s also very caring and loves taking care of people in their time of need. However, she’s not the best at comforting people when they are crying; she kind of just waits until they’re done to talk, but she’ll definitely help! The main thing she enjoys doing in her spare time are going on walks or hanging out with her aunt. Art, animals, makeup, and music are the main things that she likes. Anytime she walks into a pet store of any kind, she will be found holding a snake. She dislikes overtly negative people; if they’re going through something, she understands, but being negative for no reason really gets on her nerves. After she graduates, she plans on going to cosmetology school to pursue a career in Esthetics.