Nancy's Restaurant, Clintonville Landmark, Closing June 1

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clipped from www.thisweeknews.com Nancy's Restaurant, a staple of the Clintonville neighborhood, will close June 1. Faced with mounting debt and medical problems, owner Cindy King said she has no other choice. "It's done now and it was a hard decision to come to," she said. "All good things have to come to an end." For four decades, Nancy's was known as a comfort-food haven, a refuge for those who liked the camaraderie as much as the meatloaf and chicken and noodles. King bought the business 38 years ago from Nancy Kemmerling, who founded the restaurant about two years before that. King, 60, said she purchased the store for $10,000 and paid Kemmerling $100 to keep the name. Back then, a city ordinance would have forced King to buy a mounted sign instead of one that hung over the street in front of the restaurant, 3133 N. High St. A recent High Street improvement project hurt sales by 40 percent. King, already struggling with diabetes and circulatory issues, faced putting more money into a dilapidated building.