Business Beat: Open-house event planned in Cherry Valley

December 03, 2008 04:00 am

—

Cherry Valley businesses will have their annual holiday open-house program Sunday.

From noon to 2 p.m., there will be door prizes, refreshments and horse-drawn wagon rides, organizers said. Santa will be at the Cherry Valley Museum from 1 to 3 p.m., where photographs may be purchased for $3, according to a media release.

Other participants include A Rose is a Rose Florist, A Dickens of a Christmas in Middlefield, The Plaid Palette, Cherry Branch Gallery, Coyotes Café, Nectar Hills Farm Store, Mojo's Pizza, The Tepee, Upper Crust Bakery and Nancy's Old & New.

The event is sponsored by the Cherry Valley Chamber of Commerce. For more information, call 264-3100 or visit www.cherryvalleychamber.org.

Professor's book reading is Friday

Hartwick College Professor Thomas Travisano will read from his book ``Words In Air'' at 7 p.m. Friday at the Green Toad Bookstore on Main Street in Oneonta.

Travisano's book, which was featured in The New York Times Book Review, is the complete correspondence between poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Travisano also will answer questions and sign copies of the book.

Organizers at Green Toad said Travisano recently spoke at Hartwick College ``to a very excited audience, and his presence will be a warm and welcome event this season.''

To reserve a copy of his book or for more information, call the bookstore at 433-8898.

IDA to meet Thursday night

The Otsego County Industrial Development Agency will meet at the Broad Street Grill at 7:30 a.m. Thursday.

Hartwick College students will give a report on their project about the feasibility of a business incubator, officials said.

The IDA board will have the first half of four-hour training in public accountability, with the second half next month, officials said. Also, the Otsego County Capital Resource Corp. will meet.

The Broad Street Grill is at 55 Market St. in downtown Oneonta. For more information, call the IDA office at 432-8871.

Area artist selling holiday cards

Brandon Dawley, a graphic artist from Richfield Springs, is selling holiday greeting cards featuring his drawings of Krampus with Santa Claus.

While St. Nicholas would give treats to good children at Christmas, Krampus delivered switches and bad dreams to disobedient youngsters, according to 19th-century legend in Europe, Dawley said in a media release. Dawley said his first Krampus card in 2005 won recognition in Print's Regional Design Annual.

For more information, call Dawley at (315) 219-6723, send e-mail to bld@brandondawley.com or visit krampuskards.blogspot.com.

___

To suggest a business story, announce a new business or changes to an existing one, e-mail drichardson@thedailystar.com or call Denise Richardson at 432-1000 or (800) 721-1000, ext. 213.