Beersheba Springs Market closed Jan. 7, and a community effort is underway aimed at its return. “The current owners have operated the business for 50 years or more,” John Adams said, of Bud and Sharon Whitman. “They wanted to retire. No one showed interest in buying it. We, we being a number of people, wanted to keep the store open. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have a business in Beersheba Springs and the community would become unincorporated and just disappear eventfully, it seems like.”