Branching out: Orchard expanding as hard cider market takes hold - Glens Falls Post-Star
No settlement: Goodell, Brady await 'Deflategate' ruling NEW YORK ? NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady attended last-minute settlement talks between the NFL and its players union Monday before a judge... Dear Abby: Daughter deep in debt needs counseling, not more money DEAR ABBY: Three years ago I gave my adult daughter, married with a child, more than $16,000 to help pay off her debts because she couldn’t pay her bills. Now I find she’s deep in debt again and needs more help. With 2,000 new trees planted this month, and with another 2,500 planned for next year and 3,000 more in 2017, Hicks Orchard co-owner Dan Wilson thinks he’ll be better able to weather the kind of hardship that struck his operation in 2012. That... “One of the reasons I’m planting so aggressively now is I would like 40 percent of a crop to be enough apples, and then deal with the problem of having too many apples in a good year. Too many apples will also be far less of a problem for the orchard, if its hard cider operation — the Slyboro Ciderhouse —continues on its present growth track. “We’re selling a lot (of hard cider), and our sales are really strong in New York City,” Wilson said. The cidery, which launched in 2007, has grown from producing around 300 cases its first year to an anticipated 6,000 cases for the coming season, Wilson said. Source: poststar.com
