Store manager Merradee Lyons, right, jokes with customers Adam Wiggett, center, and Joel Amyx Tuesday at the newly reopened Middle Branch Market & Deli in East Randolph. Local farmers Stanley and Larry Armstrong, who bought the property at a December foreclosure sale, wasted no time asking Lyons to return as the general manager. ÒEast Randolph needs its store,Ó commented Lyons, ÒLots of people havenÕt seen each other since the store closed and they live within a mile of each other.Ó (Herald /Tim Calabro)