SALISBURY — When it came down to it, all Pat Weddington wanted was a hand-stitcher and a polisher to help with repairs he sometimes had to make to shoes he and his wife were selling on eBay.

Mark Benson gripped the tops of a pair of leopard print heels, black shoe polish stains under his fingernails. He raised a gnarled heel below the frames of his oversized glasses, tilting it back and ...

It wasn’t that long ago that the shoe repair business in Buffalo was on rocky ground. Then, out of the blue came Brian Gavigan who was looking for a career change. Gavigan began apprenticing with a ...