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Is your local Olympia Sports one of the 76 closing? Going-out-of-business sales started Friday.

Olympia was recently acquired by JackRabbit, another sports retailer that will operate the remaining 75 Olympia Sports.

Tia Strong waited for customers at the opening of Olympia Sports at the Gloucester Crossing shopping center in Gloucester. The store is one of 22 Olympia Sports stores that will close in Massachusetts. JOHN BLANDING/GLOBE STAFF/FILE 2010/GLOBE STAFF

By Caroline Anders

More than half of Maine-originated Olympia Sports’ stores are closing on the East Coast. Going-out-of-business sales for those 76 stores began Friday.

Olympia was recently acquired by JackRabbit, another sports retailer that will operate the remaining 75 Olympia Sports. Those stores will not change names.

The store-closing sales will include all men’s, women’s, and children’s sneakers, sweatpants, sweatshirts, coats, and more.

Here’s a list of the stores closing around New England:

Connecticut

Branford: Branhaven Plaza, 1060 West Main St.

Bristol: Bristol Commons Mall, 123 Farmington Ave.

Danbury: Danbury Fair Mall, 7 Backus Ave.

Killingly: Killingly Commons, 2129 Killingly Commons Drive

New Milford: Fairfield Plaza, 116 Danbury Rd.

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Newtown: Sand Hill Plaza, 228 South Main St.

Westport: Compo Shopping Center,  403 Post Road East

Willimantic: Eastbrook Mall, 95 Storrs Rd.

Massachusetts

Auburn: Auburn Mall, 385 Southbridge St.

Boston: Prudential Center, 800 Boylston St.

Brockton: Westgate Mall, 200 Westgate Dr.

Burlington: Burlington Mall, 75 Middlesex Turnpike

Chelmsford: Eastgate Plaza, 288 Chelmsford St.

Fairhaven: Berdon Plaza, 25 Berdon Way

Franklin: Franklin Village Shopping Center, 85 Franklin Village Dr.

Gardner: Timpany Plaza, 356 Timpany Blvd.

Gloucester: Gloucester Crossing, 331 Gloucester Crossing Rd.

Harwich: Harwich Commons Shopping Plaza, 1475 Orleans Rd.

Leominster: The Mall at Whitney Field, 100 Commercial Rd.

Lowell: Sunrise Plaza, 1201 Bridge St.

Marlborough: Solomon Pond Mall, 601 Donald Lynch Blvd.

Newburyport: Market Basket Plaza, 25 Storey Ave.

North Andover: North Andover Mall, 350 Winthrop Ave.

North Attleboro: Emerald Square Mall, 224 Emerald Sq.

Orleans: Skaket Corner Shopping Center, 9 West Rd.

Pembroke: North River Plaza, 125 Church St.

Rowley: Rowley Marketplace, 225 Newburyport Turnpike

Springfield: Eastfield Mall, 1655 Boston Rd.

Taunton: Silver City Galleria, 2 Galleria Mall Dr.

Ware: Gibbs Crossing, 350 Palmer Rd Ware

Maine

Bangor: Bangor Mall, 663 Stillwater Ave.

Belfast: Reny’s Plaza, 1 Belmont Ave.

Biddeford: Biddeford Crossing, 118 Shops Way

Farmington: Hannaford Plaza, 121 Hannaford Dr.

Freeport: Freeport Square, 140 Main St.

Sanford: The Center for Shopping Plaza, 1364 Main St.

South Paris: South Paris, 243 Main St.

Wells: Wells Retail Center, 913 Post Rd.

New Hampshire

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Epping: Epping Crossing, 31 Fresh River Rd.

Exeter: Stop ‘n Shop Plaza, 137 Portsmouth Ave.

Gilford: Walmart Plaza, 1458 Lakeshore Rd.

Meredith: Meredith Shopping Center, 38 NH Route 25

Newington: Fox Run Mall, 50 Fox Run Rd.

Plaistow: Plaistow Shopping Center, 34 Plaistow Rd.

Rindge: Cheshire Marketplace, 497 Route 202

Rhode Island

Westerly: Westerly Crossings, 143 Franklin St.

Woonsocket: Walnut Hill Plaza, 1500 Diamond Hill Rd.

Vermont

Brattleboro: Royal Square Mall,  766 Putney Rd.

Saint Johnsbury: Green Mountain Mall, 2000 Memorial Dr.

South Burlington: University Mall, 155 Dorset St.

 

Stores are also closing in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.