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09-03-2025
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Three new sugar houses join the 2025 Maple Taste & Tour Weekend. What to know if you go
The sweetest tour in the Erie region is back. The Northwest Pennsylvania Maple Syrup Producers Association will host its annual Maple Taste & Tour Weekend March 15-16. The event begins each day at 10 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. Visitors can tour various sugar houses in the region, learn about maple syrup production and sample a variety of maple products. Participating sugar houses offer demonstrations, tastings and the opportunity to purchase fresh maple syrup and other maple products. Three new sugar houses will join the tour this year, including one in Erie County. From 2024: Maple Taste & Tour: Sweet treats at center of syrupy trip around northwest Pa. Here are the participating sugar houses in each county: New to the Maple Taste & Tour are three sugar houses, one in Erie County and two in Mercer County: Furry's Family Farm, Albion Munnell Run Farm Sugar Shack, Mercer Windy Knoll Maple Farm, Stoneboro Please enable Javascript to view this content. Almost Home Sugar Shack: 10721 Eureka Road, Edinboro. 814-460-5107 or 814-923-1434. Hurry Hill Farm and Museum: 11424 Fry Road, Edinboro. 814-572-1358. Maple Lane Maple Products: 9437 Phillips Road, Union City. 814-881-1017. Shumakes Sugar Shack: 11401 Hilltop Road, Albion. 814-602-9533. Squirrel Creek Maple Products: 9404 W. Lake Road, Lake City. 814-602-1689. Yatzor's Maple Products: 5860 Koman Road, Edinboro. 814-450-4056. Casbohm Maple and Honey: 9750 Sherman Road, Albion. 814-756-4781. Triple Creek Maple Products: 9225 Fillinger Road, Cranesville. 814-756-4500. Fort LeBoeuf Maple: 2789 Dublin Road, Waterford. 814-796-3699. Wildcat Maple: 200 Harthan Way, Albion. 814-490-7180. Jim's Sugar Shack: 3229 Davison Road, Harborcreek. 814-602-7877. Austin's Pure Maple Syrup: 13738 Route 8, Wattsburg. 814-431-9790. Furry's Family Farm: 9525 Route 6N, Albion. 814-882-5996. Where we shopped: Supermarkets and grocers from Erie County's past in photos How Sweet It Is: 19868 Greenleaf Drive, Saegertown. 814-763-2777. The Willows at Little Conneauttee: 24507 Route 99, Cambridge Springs. 814-720-7016. Boylan Farms: 26308 Crossingville Road, Edinboro. 814-734-5078. Coryea's Maple Products: 4303 Ivanhoe Road, Sharpsville. 724-813-0394. Munnell Run Farm Sugar Shack: 753 Greenville Road, Mercer. 724-662-2242. Windy Knoll Maple Farm: 503 Boyd Road, Stoneboro. 724-967-6075. Triple J Farms: 315 Voorhees Road, Titusville. 814-671-5981. Yeany's Maple: 113 Chestnut St., Marienville. 814-221-4360. Senita Maple: 10750 Stateline Road, Clymer, New York. 814-392-5200 or 814-882-1531. McCray Maple: 213 Route 426, Clymer, New York. 716-499-7306. For a list of directions to each sugarhouse, visit Contact Nicholas Sorensen at nsorensen@ This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: 2025 Maple Taste & Tour: Where to find participating sugar houses
Yahoo
27-02-2025
- General
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Luke Bowers named semifinalist for Cooke College Scholarship Program
Luke Bowers of Confluence, is one of 571 high school seniors named semifinalists for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Cooke College Scholarship Program. The Cooke College Scholarship provides students with the opportunity to graduate with as little debt as possible. The award can provide as much as $55,000 per year to each awardee to pursue a bachelor's degree at any accredited undergraduate institution. 'I am truly honored to be named a semifinalist for the Cooke College Scholarship Program. This recognition inspires me to continue striving for excellence in my education and personal growth," Bowers said in an email. "I am thankful to the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation for believing in students like me and for their commitment to making college more accessible. "I also want to express my gratitude to my family and friends for their unwavering encouragement and belief in my abilities. Their support has been instrumental in this achievement and throughout all of my successes. I look forward to the possibilities that lie ahead as I pursue my dreams and continue to strive to make a positive impact in the lives of others." Cooke College Scholars are selected based on exceptional academic ability and achievement, financial need, persistence, leadership, and service to others. Students must be current high school seniors. Bowers is the son of Kristy and Jared Bowers and attends Turkeyfoot Valley High School. He is a dual enrollment/early college student at Allegany College of Maryland, who has completed 40 college credits in three years and appeared on the college's dean and honors lists. More: Berlin math teacher selected into IXL Elite 100 list of educators This year's Cooke College Scholarship semifinalists represent an exceptional cohort, selected through an even more rigorous academic standard with a new minimum unweighted GPA requirement of 3.75, according to the press release. 'These students have shown remarkable dedication to their academic pursuits, and we're honored to recognize their achievements as we continue our mission of making college accessible to exceptional students with financial need,' said Seppy Basili, executive director of the Cooke Foundation, in the press release. Bowers is the vice president of leadership for ACM's Omicron Pi Chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa National Honor Society and president of the Theatre Club. At Turkeyfoot, he is president of the Art Club, secretary of the Chess Club, member of the Class Council, past president and treasurer of the Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) Club, president of Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) Club, and president and past vice president of the student council. He participates in varsity cross country, varsity basketball and weight training, and is a letter award winner and varsity team captain. More: Area sugar camps the star attraction of Somerset County Maple Taste & Tour. What to know Bowers volunteers for a variety of organizations, including the Confluence Lions Club, the Confluence Senior Center where he helps to shovel the sidewalks and parking lot during the winter, hockey equipment manager, Kingwood I.O.O.F Lodge 1010, New Centerville Fire Department, New Centerville Farmers and Threshermen's Jubilee, and Mount Davis Challenge Bike Race. Bowers is a Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) Junior Official. "I am a certified PIAA Junior Official for basketball, baseball and volleyball," he said. He works contests in these respective fields throughout the year at schools across the western Pennsylvania region. "I intend to pursue a double major in sports management and education, with a minor in theatre," Bowers said. "I am currently considering two options for schools: PennWest University at California or West Virginia University. My long-term goal is to pursue my passion for sports officiating by becoming a professional baseball umpire and/or a collegiate Division I basketball official." Applications will be reviewed once more to choose the scholarship finalists. The 2025 Cooke College Scholarship recipients will be announced in late March. This article originally appeared on The Daily American: Luke Bowers named semifinalist for Cooke College Scholarship Program
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Climate
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Better late than never – it's maple syrup time
SHARPSVILLE, Pa. (WKBN) – The maple syrup season is running a little behind, but that's OK. There's still plenty of time to collect it and turn it into various products of maple goodness. The trees are tapped. Over 1,400 plugs are going at least an inch into the maple trees at Coryea's Maple Products. And today, sap collection started. 'Very exciting. We're about three weeks later than last year, so we've been patiently waiting for today to come,' said Aleigh Coryea. In the first week of February 2024, Coryea's was already cooking. When the temperature is below freezing, it builds up pressure in the trees. The temperature rises, and the sap is pushed out and into the lines that run to collection tanks. The sap drips slowly, but the season runs fast. It takes over 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup.'We can't make maple syrup without collecting the sap. So this is our season right now, thankfully. So our whole the rest of our whole entire year is based on what we do over the next few weeks,' Coryea said. Coryea's is an award-winning producer, and this is the most important time of the season. The lines are laid, and now is the time to collect what it needs to make its variety of maple products. 'Our season ends whenever Mother Nature stops giving us freezing nights. So whenever it doesn't freeze again, then we're done,' Coryea said. Coryea's had some leftover sap collected last year, which it could start cooking today. Maple Taste & Tour weekend is coming up. That's the annual open house and three sugar houses are participating in Mercer County, plus 23 others across northwest Pennsylvania, including Coryea's in Sharpsville, Munnell Run Farm in Mercer and Windy Knoll Maple in Stoneboro. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
07-02-2025
- Climate
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Maple producers looking ahead to spring with annual tree-tapping ceremony
Even though Somerset County is in the heart of winter, maple producers are already celebrating the oncoming spring. The annual Somerset County Maple Producers' Association tree-tapping ceremony is at 2 p.m. Feb. 22 at Baer Bros. Maple Camp, 245 Appy Acres Road, Somerset. The camp is owned by Mike and Sherry Lynch. The ceremony will feature Queen Maple LXXVII Gracie Paulman of Meyersdale and this year's contestants for the maple queen title. Maple King Jason Blocher will officially tap a maple tree. Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Russell C. Redding will be this year's special guest and speaker. The event will be held in conjunction with the Pennsylvania State Maple Tree Tapping Ceremony, an event started last year. Association President Everett Sechler of Sechler Sugar Shack, Confluence, said there also will be some state maple officials attending. More: PennDOT reviewing plans, responses for proposed Route 219 to Maryland completion project The maple sugar water harvest season happens when the days are warm but the nights are still freezing cold. The maple season could last for eight to 10 weeks, but the sap may run only 10 to 20 days. The season ends when the nights become warmer and the first stages of bud development are on the trees. Each tap yields an average of 10 gallons of sap per season, which boils down to about one quart of syrup. The association's tree-tapping event was originally deemed as the kick-off to the maple season for area producers. But in the past few years, the maple production has started earlier than usual. Some producers start tapping and boiling sugar water by the end of December. The majority of Somerset County's producers start their seasons by the end of January. More: Old-Growth Forest Network inducts Klondike Ridge area of Youghiogheny River Lake "There is truth in what is said (about the season starting earlier)," Sechler said. "But it's been a tradition to celebrate the maple season the last Saturday in February." The producers have sponsored the ceremony for more than 50 years, he said. There are about 75 members of the Somerset County Maple Producers' Association. "In those 50 years of celebrating the maple season, I can think of only two times we had to cancel that I know of," Sechler said. Visitors to the tree-tapping ceremony will be treated to free maple candies, and baked goods will be available. The Somerset County Maple Taste & Tour is set for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 1, 2 and 8 and 9, at participating sugar camps. The 78th annual Pennsylvania Maple Festival is set for April 5, 6 and 9-13, in Meyersdale. Madolin Edwards has been a journalist at the Daily American for 38 years, covering school boards, borough councils, sports and new stories. Contact the Daily American staff writers at news@ This article originally appeared on The Daily American: Baer Bros Sugar Camp hosting 2025 tree-tapping ceremony
