More than two months after Pyro City started selling fireworks in Edgecomb – and a week before the big Fourth of July holiday – the Route One store is doing well, owner Steven Marson said.

“Absolutely,” Marson said. “We’re very satisfied. We’re seeing the business I anticipated.”

When the store opened April 11, area residents were most of the customers; the nearer July 4 has come, so too have come the tourists, Marson said.
Accordingly, he is expanding the store’s hours.

Thursday, June 28, through at least Sunday, July 8 – to accommodate the July 4 holiday weekend demand – the store will be open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven days a week.

The store currently has eight full-time employees, two more than when the store opened, Marson said.

So far, the local sale of fireworks has not made extra work for the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department. The department has gotten only about one or two complaints regarding fireworks, Maj. Ken Mason said June 25.

The Edgecomb store was the second one Marson opened after Maine lifted its ban on the sale of consumer fireworks. The first was in Manchester. Since launching the Edgecomb location, he has added stores in Winslow and Ellsworth. He plans to open a store in Presque Isle on Sunday, July 1.