Madison’s Rutabaga Paddlesports may not be closing after all, though owner Darren Bush still plans to transition to a new career as a hospice chaplain.
Bush, who has worked at the specialty sporting goods shop since 1990 and owned it since 2007, last month said he made the decision to move on from Rutabaga after a serious heart attack led him to reevaluate his life.
In an interview with WPR’s “The Larry Meiller Show,” he said his announcement was followed by hundreds of emails and direct messages asking “What are you doing? How can you do this? You can’t do this.” Some of those messages were from potential buyers of the business…