Heav'nly Donuts Celebrates 50 Sweet Years of Serving Up Baked Goods and Joy

Today, Heav’nly Donuts is a successful family-owned business, serving up an acclaimed array of pastries, breakfast sandwiches, bagels, and beverages from 16 locations throughout northeastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. But before the yogurt cups, breakfast sandwiches, and the everything bagels, there were the donuts. The shop began in Methuen in 1975, when Greek immigrant George Saragas bought a small, closed-down Mister Donut to open his own bakery. The original premise was simple: good donuts, good coffee, good prices. The work, however, was hard—Saragas often slept on a 50-pound bag of flour in the back room so he coul

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