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Wallkill Valley Times, Wednesday, November 11, 2015
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12
Montgomery Town Board Audit/Work
Session, 7 p.m. Town Government
Center, 110 Bracken Road, Montgomery.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16
Town of Montgomery Zoning Board of
Appeals 7 p.m. Town Hall, 110 Bracken
Road, Montgomery.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17
Walden Village Board of Trustees,
6:30 p.m. Village Hall, 1 Municipal
Square.
Montgomery Village Board, 7:30 p.m.,
Village Hall, 133 Clinton Street.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18
Shawangunk ZBA. 7 p.m. Town Hall, 14
Central Ave., Wallkill
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Angry Orchard opens the doors to its Walden cider house
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Angry Orchard has brought new life to
this land,” Crist said.
First launched in 2012, Angry Orchard
is the number-one selling hard cider in
the US, where cider consumption has
nearly quintupled since 2010. It is owned
by Boston Beer Company.
Empire State Development (ESD), New
York’s chief development agency, estimates that the state has 47 operating
cideries, including 18 cider producers, and
16 farm wineries that exclusively make
cider. New York State is the second highest producer of apples in the country, with
an estimated 1.26 billion pounds harvested last year, and home to 40,000 acres of
apple orchards, where growers produced
an average of 31,500 pounds of apples per
acre. Last year’s crop totaled $289 million,
a 22 percent increase from 2013.
ESD provided Angry Orchard with
$175,000 in performance-based Excelsior
Jobs Program Tax Credits, and Angry
Orchard agreed to hire at least seven fulltime employees through 2018 and invest
$9.1 million in the new facility.
“I support better alcohol at better
prices,” cheered Congressman Sean
Patrick Maloney at Friday’s gathering.
“Especially when it means jobs here in
Orange County.”
Maloney said he’s excited that $9.1 million