If you live in Maynard and your refrigerator is empty, you have to drive to an out-of-town supermarket or shop for groceries at a local pharmacy.
But a group of local residents is trying to change that, working to bring a cooperative, member-owned grocery store to the center of town.
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Happy memories of the United Co-operative Society of my youth in the Forties and Fifties in Maynard. I recall the big Co-op supermarket on Main Street and a small Co-op store on the other side of the Assabet River in downtown - with a gasoline service station next to it. The co-op had a dairy operation for fresh dairy products, a hardware store, a coal and oil delivery company. The bakery was super with delicious fresh Finish sugared bread - which we fried for a weekend breakfast treat. When the Maynard Co-op closed, we drove to the Fitchburg Co-op to get the delicious bread. Today, a merchant in nearby Westminister, possibly on Route 2A, near The Olde Mill Restaurant, sells the Finnish sweet bread - imported from New Hampshire. Best of luck to the new Co-Op. you have big historical shoes to fill. And the Annual dividend was nice too!