The 141-year-old Ephrata-based business is shutting the doors of its five Pennsylvania stores by March 18. The family-owned Royer Pharmacy was one of the oldest continuously operating independent ...

Ephrata Pharmacy is now open in a 2,000-square-foot portion of the building at the northeast corner of State and Main streets that was made into two retail spaces after Royer Pharmacy closed.

Now owned by siblings Donald and Robert Sherman and Patricia Leaman and Pamela Groff, the pharmacy traces its beginnings to 1879 in Ephrata, when a young pharmacist named George S. Royer bought ...