Longtime baker Emily Bachelder has bought Tony’s Donuts from the Fournier family, which founded the shop in 1965.

She began working there at age 14 and has been running it for the past few years, taking ownership officially on Dec. 18. “I grew up in the shop. It’s like home to me,” she said on Tuesday. “I was engaged but I didn’t have the ring. Now I’m married and signed.”

She is already making some small changes, adding an assortment of donut holes, refreshing the lights and paint, and producing donuts throughout the day in smaller batches so she can provide customers with hot donuts at any hour. But the donut recipe will be unchanged, she said, and she will not be changing the name.

The place is family to her: Bachelder’s mother first job was at Tony’s and she still helps out. Two of Bachelder’s three children (the other is just a toddler) work there, as does a niece and a nephew. Her siblings have worked there, too. And her late father, a police officer and later a firefighter, often hung out with his buddies at the shop.

Three other bakers have worked with Bachelder for about 15 years. They’ve all grown up there together, she said. “I couldn’t be doing this without them.”

Tony’s, located on the corner of Congress and Bolton streets in the city’s Libbytown neighborhood, will be closed from Dec. 25 to Jan. 1, and will have a grand reopening on Jan. 3, featuring a ribbon-cutting, raffle and donut-eating contest. Meanwhile, ahead of Christmas and a predicted snowstorm, Tuesday has been “one of the busiest days in the last ten years here,” Bachelder said.

Is Bachelder sick of donuts after all this time? Certainly not. “I eat a hot plain donut every morning.”