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Press Coverage
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Recent Coverage
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Community Owned Food Co-op Gains National Recognition
WCA-TV - July 17, 2026
The Charles River Food Co-op has earned national recognition for its efforts to bring a community-owned grocery store to the region.
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Effort to Start Food Co-op Half Way There, Board Starting to Seek Sites
Watertown News - June 10, 2026
The effort to bring a food co-op to the Watertown area reached a major milestone recently, and has gained momentum in its effort to open a retail store.
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In Watertown, Charles River Food Co-Op Aims To Replace Russo's
WBZ News Radio - February 10, 2026
When the legendary Russo's Grocery closed in Watertown in 2021, it left a hole here that many people still feel.
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Locally and nationally, food co-ops are on the rise. Here’s why.
Boston Globe - March 22, 2024
Why is the cooperative movement seeing a renaissance? The answer is different this time around. -
Cooperation Nation
Edible Boston - May 5th, 2023
When is a store more than a store? When is food more than food? Advocates of the food co-op movement know stores have the potential to offer more than indifferent aisles stocked with items from distant plants and slaughterhouses. Grocery coops provide food grown and made nearby by partnering farmers and producers. They lift neighborhoods up by reinvesting in the community. The best become hubs of economic solidarity and radical inclusion. -
Behind the scenes, forces are at work to create the Charles River Food Co-op
Boston Globe - February 7th, 2023
On the day before Russo’s closed, Nick Quaranto, a software engineer, stood in the long check-out line with blocks of Parmesan in hand. “I had a breakthrough moment,” Quaranto says. “We were all pretty sad, and I needed to channel that grief into something great.”
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Charles River Food Co-op reaches goal of 500 Founding Members
Fig City News - November 8th, 2022
Last June, the Charles River Food Co-op launched its inaugural membership drive with the goal of reaching 500 Founding Members — each paying $200 one-time or in installments — by October 31…
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Shares Available for Charles River Co-op, Group Looking to Create New Food Buying Alternative
Watertown News - June 13th, 2022
Since the closing of Russo’s market in September 2021, a group of people has been working to create a new option for grocery and food shoppers in the Watertown area. On June 15, the Charles River Food Co-op formally kicks off the sale of shares in the planned store.