Searsport market reopening later this year under new owner

This story will be updated. A small Maine grocery store chain will buy and reopen the former Tozier’s Family Market in Searsport after it closed down earlier this summer. The buyer, Edwards Brothers Supermarkets, currently has other locations in Unity, Trenton and Dover-Foxcroft, according to its website. In an interview, co-owner Jeremy Edwards said he expects to reopen the Searsport store Nov. 22. Searsport officials had previously announced that the former Tozier’s Family Market was expected to change hands, but the buyer was not made public until Thursday. Minor renovations have been taking place there for the last few weeks. It had abruptly closed on July 3, a week before a second location of Tozier’s Family Market closed in Brewer. The closure caught many Searsport-area residents off-guard.