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Super day for business

Many local retailers cash in on public’s football craving

Jennifer Padilioni and Ashley Russell of the On-A-Stick Bakery in Fishkill are ready to take orders for Sunday’s Super Bowl. They are holding special cupcakes and stand behind a large football field cake, complete with team jerseys carrying the names of the starting quarterbacks. The big game gives many local businesses the opportunity to supply food and supplies for game-day parties. - Photo by Curtis Schmidt

By Ray Fashona

The Super Bowl is so much more than a football game it has become tantamount to a national holiday.

And an array of businesses – some obvious, others more obscure – reap benefits from the most watched sporting event in America.

This year, the defending champion Seattle Seahawks play the three-time title-holders the New England Patriots Feb. 1 in Glendale, Ariz. Whoever takes the game, the real winners will be the many businesses that cash in on America’s unquenchable thirst for football.

Super Bowl Sunday “is one of the better days we can count on during the year,” said Jay Baisley, owner of the Channingville Deli on the border of Poughkeepsie and Wappinger.

“We are busy all day long,” said William Abela, owner of CJ’s Pizza in Rhinebeck.

For many retailers, Super Bowl means super business.

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Super Bowl means super business
for local restaurants, delis, sports bars

Photo caption: Owner William Abela and Maren Metcalf of CJ’s Italian Ristorante of Rhinebeck are ready for the Super Bowl on Sunday. Here, they display sandwiches by the foot, boneless wings and chicken ranch and bacon pizza. The big game provides a big payday for many local businesses that offer food and supplies for game-day parties. Photo by Curtis Schmidt

by Ray Fashona

The Super Bowl is so much more than a football game it has become tantamount to a national holiday.

And an array of local small businesses – some obvious, others more obscure – reap benefits from the most watched sporting event in America.

This year, the defending champion Seattle Seahawks play the three-time title-holders the New England Patriots Feb. 1 in Glendale, Ariz. Whoever takes the game, the real winners will be the many businesses that cash in on America’s unquenchable thirst for football.

“We are busy all day long,” said William Abela, owner of CJ’s Pizza and Italian Ristorante in Rhinebeck.

For many retailers, Super Bowl means super business.

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Seeger’s legend continues to grow

Pete Seeger, a Dutchess County icon, died a year ago and is missed by music lovers, environmentalists and activists.
- Courtesy photo

By Goldee Greene
Staff Writer/Arts & Entertainment

'Spirit of Beacon' Pete Seeger left this world on January 27, 2014, at the age of 94. A year later memories of his life and music are resounding throughout the Hudson Valley.

"Pete Seeger's local community in Beacon and the Hudson River Valley as well as the entire world community lost an icon of decency, courage, humanity," said longtime friend Connie Hogarth. "Also through his spirit of change captured through music. But his work, spirit and vision, so inspirational for young and old, live on. Forever."

Seeger was predeceased by Toshi, his wife of almost 70 years, on July 9, 2013. The Seegers, who dwelled for decades on Mount Beacon, in Dutchess Junction, were named Honorary Beaconites by the City of Beacon in 2008. The Beacon City School District named the Beacon High School Theatre after them, in early 2013.

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