Amsterdam

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This is your New York Met station in Amsterdam, New York.

This is WMBQ, ninety-seven point seven on your FM dial.

Now we're into the ball game as Steve Alfred with us tonight in Philadelphia.

But what happened is that my roommate from college, uh, was in a, in industrial labor relations school at Cornell.

And then, but then he decided to go to medical school, and he was from a little city called Amsterdam, New York, about 30, about 30 minutes west of Albany on a New York State Thruway in the Mohawk Valley, with the, essentially in the foothills of the Adirondacks.

And I used to visit there, uh, 'cause fraternity brothers would, uh, work in Lake George in the summertime.

They'd come up, we'd go up there and get blitzed, and then I would sober up in Amsterdam before I went home.

And then Tony was my best man, and he went, he came back to Amsterdam as a cardiologist, and he recruited me.

So that's how I wound up in this little city in upstate New York.

But the reason I'm h- I came to th- little city is that before I went to Vietnam, Robin and my two children were ancillary.

I still advocate for ves- uh, veterans.

The news of the crash went national.

Several of the victims, some of whom were celebrating their marriages, hailed from Amsterdam, New York.

Remembrances and vigils were held within days as the community tried to make sense of what happened.

I remember a vigil where the Schoharie High School auditorium was just packed with people.

It was such a terrible feeling, and it was, it-- because it was so many people-

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... and so many families, um, many of them, again, were from Amsterdam, which isn't a big town.

Mm-hmm.

We pause for station identification.

You're listening to Yankee Baseball on WCSS Amsterdam, New York.

Today's game is being brought to you in part by the G. Kruger Brewing Company of Cranston, Rhode Island.

Brewers of the world's most perfect beer, light golden Kruger Pilsner.

Kelly trying to go to right field with that outside fastball.

And right now on New York Yankee Baseball, let's pause briefly for station identification.

This is WCSS in Amsterdam, New York.

You're listening to Yankee Baseball brought to you in part by the G. Kruger Brewing Company, makers of Kruger Pilsner, the world's most perfect beer.

Crazier than that? If you want to think a crazier story than tentacled being, listen to this.

This took place in Amsterdam, New York.

It was a hot summer afternoon in Amsterdam, New York, and I was living with my mom in a house trailer just off the main route.

Ours was the first trailer in the park.

The date was June 9th, 1980.

[upbeat music] Today, we have the pleasure of welcoming Corinne Hansch to the Growing for Market Podcast.

Corinne runs Lovin' Mama Farm in Amsterdam, New York, where they grow vegetables, flowers, and microgreens.

More to the point, Corinne is the author of the brand-new book, Microgreens and Shoots: How to Select, Grow, Harvest, and Package Nutrient-Dense Greens for Profit.

Corinne had the cover story in the September Growing for Market Magazine about how to plan and grow year-round income with microgreens, and there's an excerpt from the book in the October magazine, so you can get a good idea of the book from those articles in the last two magazines.

We have about eight equivalent full-time employees.

Uh, we keep about five full-time on year-round.

And we recently bought a diner in our hometown of Amsterdam, New York, one of the poorest cities in Upstate New York, and we're turning that into a farm store and cafe and certified kitchen.

So we're also doing a whole line of value-added products with all of our leftovers.

So we had the opportunity to play a new course.

Amsterdam Municipal Golf Course.

And I'm still absolutely amazed at how nice that place was.

That is one of them.

We've talked about Freer Park.

We haven't yet been to Schenectady Municipal Golf Course in the Capital Region.

Amsterdam's just west of the Capital Region by about an hour, roughly 45 minutes to an hour west of the Albany Region.

Um, it's, it's a, it was a beautifully kept golf course.