Dear Customers, If you think “inflation” is just something you do to your tires when the temperature drops, you’re absolutely correct.  But the term hits home in a more global context when you sit down with your checkbook to pay the month’s bills.  Something’s not right here. . . there’s more out-go than in-come! Simply…

Dear Customers, October, our tenth month, gets its name from the Latin word for eight, “octo”, because it originally was the eighth month in the Roman calendar.  Americans have a penchant for assigning the term, “National _____________ Month” (you fill in the blank, apparently! In the grocery business, October is known as National Apple Month,…

Dear Customers, Gradually, one vegetable at a time, I’m pulling the vines out of my garden and consigning them to the compost heap.  Vegetables, like people, mature at different rates and times so the cucumbers that were done back in August are way ahead of the sauce tomatoes I’ve been harvesting of late.  This is…

Dear Customers, As I announced back in March of this year when our managers attended the bi-annual food show in Connecticut, we were once again present this past August for the Fall-Winter event.   While there, our managers took advantage of many, many great deals that are, for whatever reason, available only if you are in…

Dear Customers, Cooler nights that seem to begin earlier and earlier, spider webs in every nook & cranny, and bees that hover over everything edible on the picnic table can only mean one thing.  .  .  This is the final week of summer! Normally, I would be getting ready to pick apples or pears off…

Dear Customers,   With Fall high-school sports seasons stretching out ahead of us for the next couple of months, it’s often difficult, if not worth the effort, to execute or even plan a family meal most nights.  Practices usually coincide with suppertime as well as games, meets and matches scheduled at various times during the…

Dear Customers, Summer is coming to its normal conclusion, albeit three weeks before the calendar thinks!  This weekend we celebrate Labor Day which is for all intents and purposes the end of summer for most people.  That is “most people with school age children”.  I no longer fall into that category and neither does my…

Dear Customers, This Friday night, at about 7pm, the Orange & Black will be lining up for their season opening kickoff.  The Hubber marching band will be settling into the bleachers as the final notes of the National Anthem fade away.  Down on the track, the cheerleaders are anxiously waiting to start exhorting the crowd,…

Dear Customers, The McKean County Fair comes to town this week for its 117th visit.  I’ve been alive for way more than half of those, but the fair still holds a special amount of magic for me.  I’ll admit that my interest has centered on different aspects over these many years. As a boy, I…

Dear Customers, In a couple more weeks, I’ll be turning 69 years old.  While that’s not an accomplishment I can take any credit for, it seems to be a big deal to those who think I retired several years ago!  I’m just a little flabbergasted when a friend or acquaintance I haven’t seen in a…