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5 days ago | nny360.com | Don Cazentre

In the four decades since he opened his namesake winery on Cayuga Lake, Cameron Hosmer has followed the debate over allowing grocery stores in New York to sell wine. “It’s been kicking around for 40 years,” said Hosmer, who founded Hosmer Winery in Ovid with his wife Maren in 1985. “There’s always been two sides to the situation. I guess what’s happened is, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’”But this year, the long-standing push to allow the sale of wine in New York grocery stores has a new twist.

5 days ago | syracuse.com | Don Cazentre

Like many Catholics around the world, the Rev. John Leo Oduor watched with intense interest as the church introduced a new pope at the Vatican in Rome on Thursday. Oduor, a priest at Christ the Good Shepherd in Oswego, had a special connection: He knew the new pope, now Leo XIV, about 20 years ago when he was still the Rev. Robert Prevost. At the time, Oduor was studying to be a priest at a “formation house” run by the Order of Saint Augustine in Nairobi, Kenya.

6 days ago | syracuse.com | Don Cazentre

New York’s oldest family-owned brewery is embracing one of the newest trends in the market: “mid-strength beer."The latest beer from Utica’s F.X. Matt (Saranac) Brewing Co. is called Saranac Weekend Warrior. It’s a golden pilsner-style lager at 3% alcohol by volume. “Mid-strength” means it’s not as strong as a typical domestic lager (about 5% to 6%), and certainly far less than some 7% or 8% IPAs. And it’s not a low-calorie “light” beer, which are typically 4% to 4.5% ABV.

1 week ago | syracuse.com | Don Cazentre

Mexico, N.Y. — When life gives you apples, you make beer. That’s the philosophy driving Jenna Behling, a fifth-generation member of the family that owns Behling Orchards in the Oswego County town of Mexico. Behling is opening a new brewery taproom this weekend to showcase the beers she’s been making and selling since 2019 at orchard’s visitors barn on Potter Road. The beers are sold under the name 6 Acres Farm Brewery.

2 weeks ago | syracuse.com | Don Cazentre

Syracuse, N.Y. — A stage version of a classic board game, the stories of two mega music stars, and both old and new hit musicals are highlights of the 2025-26 M&T Bank Broadway in Syracuse season. Those touring shows, plus the previously announced return of “Hamilton,” will take the stage at the Landmark Theatre starting this fall and through the summer of 2026.