Heath Brook/Trahan PAC Fundraiser at Orange Leaf

Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt of Tewksbury will be hosting 3 nights of fundraising for the Heath Brook/Trahan PAC starting tonight at 6pm.

Tewksbury's Ken Mackey Opens Another Orange Leaf In Acton

Orange Leaf enjoying early success after opening earlier this month.

It's early Monday afternoon and a throng of Acton students scuttle inside this quaint Main Street shop. Their eyes quickly focus at the colorful back wall where eight dispensers featuring 16 mouth-watering flavors await them, along with nearly 40 delicious toppings to choose from. The students pay, grab a seat and gleefully chat while enjoying their frozen yogurt in front of a large hi-def TV. That's been a typical day for Ken Mackey, one of the co-owners of Orange Leaf which opened earlier this month on Main Street. "The first week was great," he said. "The day we opened there were four girls waiting at the door at 9 a.m. until we opened at 11 a.m. We had 10 kids come in right away and it was really nonstop until we closed at 10 p.m. Each…

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Orange Leaf Ready For Tewksbury Grand Opening

Frozen yogurt franchise has been widely anticipated.

For Tewksbury frozen yogurt fans, this upcoming weekend will be, without a doubt, one to remember. Saturday, Aug.18 at 11 a.m. will mark the long awaited and much anticipated grand opening of the new, Orange Leaf Frozen yogurt. Located on Route 38 at Wamesit Place, near the entrance to Walmart, Orange Leaf promises to bring a whole new kind of experience to Tewksbury.  Owned and operated by partners Ken Mackey, Gerry Goodwin and Don Coffin, Orange Leaf‘s mission statement is a simple one, “To promote community and family by providing a great tasting, sensible frozen dessert made just for you, by you, in an environment that is  as visually uplifting as it is welcoming.”  Orange Leaf arrives in town with a decidedly local flavor. Two of the …

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Brooke

3:50 am on Sunday, August 26, 2012

Agreed, I LOVE fro-yo and was excited when Pushcart started offering it again, but one time was enough. It wasn't good, at all. Orange Leaf is FANTASTIC and I'm glad I won't have to go to Andover any more to get it! I hope it lasts here, but seeing as its Tewksbury I won't hold my breath :/   more ›

Owner Reveals Location, Projected Opening For Orange Leaf

Tewksbury frozen yogurt shop will be one of more than a dozen Orange Leaf locations opening in Massachusetts.

One of the owners of the much-anticipated Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt franchise in Tewksbury has provided the answers to where the store will be located and when it projects to open. Ken Mackey, a Tewksbury native, said the new business will be located at 345 Main St., in the Wamesit Place plaza. He and his partners hope to have the store open for business by mid-to-late July. "We'd like to get that summertime business if we can," said Mackey. Mackey owns the franchise, along with Don Coffin of Tewksbury and Jerry Goodwin of Andover. The trio are longtime business partners, having owned the U-Save Car Rental business in Lowell since 1997. Orange Leaf is an Oklahoma-based business that started in 2008. It was bought up in 2010 and over the …

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motherof2girls

3:14 pm on Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Best of luck! My daughters are also looking forward to the grand opening! I was just wondering if you were considering offering a dairy free flavor(s) for little ones, like my daughter will dairy allergies? It would be greatly appreciated! :)   more ›