A customer has bought the first beer served legally in a rural upstate New York town in 80 years.
The Times Herald-Record of Middletown reports servers at the Eureka Market & Cafe poured the first beer sold in Neversink on Thursday since an eight-decade prohibition on alcohol was partially lifted last month.
Kenny Curry was the first to be served and had a pint of Trout Town Eagle IPA as about 20 supporters cheered.
Voters approved two propositions that changed the town’s dry laws to allow beer, wine and liquor sales in restaurants and package stores.
Jennifer Grimes, the cafe’s owner, says she started a liquor license application the day after the vote passed. She led the push to allow the sale of alcohol in the Catskills town.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Our town made a similar move a decade ago. Surprisingly there was no photo op of the first person to legally purchase alcohol.
While this was probably pushed as an effort to make the community prosperous, local government and the beer/liquor distributors are the ones who will truly prosper off this move. Several of the bars and restaurants which opened in my town to reap the profits of legal alcohol sales have closed. I guess they learned that it was going to take more than alcohol to succeed.
Uhh, Prohibition ended in 1933, why so late to game now??
For tourism??
Unfortunately, your headline reads
“…… this NYC town……..”.
NYC is new York City not New York State
where this little town is located.
I have never known you to make a mistake
before this. Thought I was looking at YAHOO!!