BERLIN — It’s a twist on a line from the movie "Field of Dreams": If they come, we will build it.
The Androscoggin Food Co-op is on a membership drive, a drive to have enough members so that the next steps can be taken, and a local co-op building can be built somewhere in Coos County or the Androscoggin Valley.
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