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Business brewing again in downtown City will have 2 breweries once more with Abyssal Brewing set to join Tindall Road BY JOE EmANSKi
Downtown Bordentown’s Holiday Chocolate Walk is set to return to Farnsworth Avenue and vicinity on Friday, Dec. 5 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. “Chocolate passports” are available for preorder at visitbordentowncity.com.
Arnold set to lead Scotties’ basketball into new season BY JUSTiN FEiL Corrin Arnold texted Maddie Wylie several times over the fall to share how much the Bordentown Regional High School girls basketball team will miss her. Wylie, a 1,000-point scoring force inside who’s now playing for Eastern University, was one of four seniors, two that were starters, to graduate from last
year’s Burlington County Scholastic League Freedom Division co-champions. Arnold’s return should soften her graduation loss. “Corrin played alongside Maddie so I feel like she’s kind of been in the shadow of Maddie for a couple years,” said Bordentown coach Bill Lloyd. “So I’m just hoping this year she takes it and saw what Maddie
achieved and kind of becomes more consistent with what she’s been doing because she’s going to be our really our only true big. We’re going to be very guard heavy this year.” Arnold is a 5-foot-10 forward. And she’s hoping that the Scotties can depend on her in some of the same ways they relied on Wylie, though they have See ARNOLD, Page 10
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Bordentown is oddly familiar with the concept of a here-todaygone-tomorrow microbrewery. The city’s first microbrewery in the modern era, Common Sense Brewing, opened in late 2017, only to close in 2019. Luckily for local beer lovers, Dan Pogorzelski and Marci Warboys were ready and willing to take over at the Common Sense location, opening Tindall Road Brewing Company later that summer. Then there was Fox House Brewing, which opened down the road on Farnsworth Avenue in March, but closed three months later. Owners Chris and Abby Campbell, who had been working to open the business for two years, cited a number of factors including equipment failure as the reason for closing so quickly after opening. Yet once again, beer geeks will have the chance to sample locally made ales once again at the former Fox House location,
as another new brewery is set to open in that space this month: Abyssal Brewing. Abyssal Brewing is a new business owned and operated by Daniel Knowles and his wife, Meagan. They will be assuming the lease on the building at 222 Farnsworth Ave. Daniel Knowles, 35, may be known to locals from his time as a bartender at Old Town Pub. He is also a longtime homebrewer who will be bringing that experience to the new venture. The Hamilton High West graduate has been working in the restaurant business since he was 15. His first job was working birthday parties at Hamilton Lanes. Later, he worked at Red Robin and then Longhorn Steakhouse for 10 years total. He says that as soon as he started homebrewing, he fell in love with the hobby. He has had a desire to open a craft brewery for a number of years. In fact, at the same time that Chris Campbell was working to open Fox House, Knowles was in the process of opening up his own brewery in Burlington City. Knowles knew Campbell from his time at Old Town Pub, and he says the two entrepreneurs would often swap stories See BREWERY, Page 8
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