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- Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Archives Revels Classifieds Real Estate Guide Weather Subscribe Contact Us April 18, 2005 Greensprings Inn sold to employee couple New owners selected because they want to maintain establishment By Jennifer Squires Ashland Daily Tidings After six months on the market, the Greensprings Inn has new owners. Adam and Jennifer Hanor purchased the restaurant and inn from Diarmuid McGuire and Pam Marsh last week. The Greensprings Inn , a meeting place for residents of the secluded mountain area, is under new ownership as of Friday. File photo | Ashland Daily Tidings The change of hands became effective at 3:30 p.m. Friday, just as Jennifer Hanor loaded up pots of coffee and bowls of food to donate to an event at Pinehurst School that evening. Barbara McHugh, the head chef who built the restaurant 25 years ago, still needed to pick the night’s dinner special — something with veal, Hanor guessed — and the “For Sale” sign still stood in between the deck and the parking lot. The Hanors have been employees of the Greensprings Inn and lived in the area for four years. They got their start in the local restaurant business at Geppetto’s when they moved to Southern Oregon from Sun Valley, Idaho. The name and reputation for homemade food will remain at the restaurant, but the pair hopes to transform the Greensprings Inn into a green business within 10 years. For the time being, they will add organic options and “lighter side” dishes to the menu, as well as seek out local producers when possible. Eventually, they would like to run the restaurant on solar energy. The inn offers Highway 66 travelers the only pit-stop between Ashland and Keno, and is the sole neighborhood eatery for the 200-plus people who live on the mountain. McGuire, who has owned the Greensprings area inn along with his wife since 1994, said he received offers from perspective buyers who planned to turn it into a private retreat, or a drug and alcohol treatment facility, but waited for a buyer who wanted to retain the establishment’s character. “We just really fell in love with the community and this place,” Jennifer Hanor said, explaining the restaurant hosts events and donates time, services and resources to local groups, such as the school and the new Greensprings Volunteer Fire and Rescue. “It’s just kind of a community hub.” McGuire and Marsh had been attempting to sell the inn “on and off for the last couple of years,” because their daughter, Molly, started at Ashland High School in the fall of 2003. Marsh recently graduated from Southern Oregon University. “The big thing was we didn’t want Molly to have to commute to high school because she’s involved in so many activities,” McGuire said, who says he was glad when the Hanors decided to take control of the business. “They’re really great people. They have a really great commitment to the community.” Staff writer Jennifer Squires can be reached at 482-3456 x 3019 or [email protected]. DailyTidings.com Home Page Archives | Revels | Classifieds | Real Estate Guide | Weather | Subscribe | Contact Us Copyright 2005 Ashland Daily Tidings and Ottaway Newspapers All Rights Reserved Free Musick Downloads Slippers Women's & Men's Slippers Ceramic Piggy Banks heloc Calenders 2005 Calender 2005 Accelerate Weightloss Products Memory Foam Mattress tcg student loan consolidation home equity loans teleconferencing W2 Forms Tatoos student loans African Safari Conference Calls - $50/Month Security Systems diamonds Currancy Exchange Online Casinos Community Student Loans Tatoo Poker Games Homeschooling Click Here Site Search: .:Advertisements:. RESOURCES - Mail Tribune News - ODOT Road Cams