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Wallkill Valley Times, Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Paradise for a sports fan
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Walden.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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Walker Valley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9
Shawangunk Town Board, 7 p.m. Town
Hall, 14 Central Ave., Wallkill.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 10
Montgomery Town Board Audit/
Work Session, 7 p.m. Town Government
Center, 110 Bracken Road, Montgomery.
MONDAY, AUGUST 14
Valley Central Board of Education
5:30 p.m. Administration building, 944
Route 17K, Montgomery. Executive ses-
sion – Board retreat.
Town of Montgomery Planning Board,
7:30 p.m. Town Government Center, 110
Bracken Road, Montgomery.
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Merchandise shop opens in Walden
By TED REMSNYDER
M
ore so than ever, sports are an
obsession in America, and local
fans will be in heaven when they
visit Enthoozies, the sports merchandise
shop that opened in Walden. The
sprawling store sells everything from
golf balls, mugs, toothbrushes to
containers of hand sanitizer festooned
with team logos from the National
Football League, National Basketball
Association, National Hockey League,
Major League Baseball and leading
college teams.
Store Owner Tom Maloy has been
selling sports merchandise on the
website, Enthoozies.com for the past
14 years, but decided to expand his
operation with a retail location at 3
Cherry St. in Walden. “I started selling
online, and we moved in here to get
more space and to open it up for the
community,” he explained. Online sales
currently account for approximately 60
percent of the Enthoozies business, but
each month that the physical store is
open, that percentage drops as customers
find the local shop. The store contains
two showrooms, and Enthoozies also has
a warehouse stocked with items from 25
different manufacturers.
The shop’s current top-selling item is
a snack helmet that allows fans to eat
chips, dip or candy out of a plastic NFL
helmet in the design of their favorite
football team. The item retails at $54.99,
and for that price Green Bay Packers
fans can snack on Fritos chips out of the
Owner Tom Maloy outside his shop at 3
Cherry St. in Walden.
top of the team’s classic yellow, green
and white helmet. “We can get any team
in, and one good thing about this store
is that we try to get a good variety