Coffee Central Opens its Door!

Last Saturday, August 20, roughly 400 customers stepped into the northeast door of the Villa Theatre building to welcome Coffee Central, Malta's newest coffee shop to the community for its grand opening.

"It was crazy," said Coffee Central owner Kelsie Harms. "If Tessa (Handley, her sister-in-law) wasn't here to help me, I would have been crying in the corner. She ran the till, I ran the coffee, and it was great!"

Harms, the daughter of Mark and Donna Handley, and wife of Noah Harms, is a 2011 graduate of Malta High School.

Harms also has had plenty of experience as a barista, be-it 10 years a...