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...continued from p.2 Kerry Bennett (right) and Ashley O’Brien enjoyed yet another busy day up at Brophy’s.
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All the time and effort planning and plotting really paid off. I stopped into Brophy’s (yeah, I know, Brophy Bros.) and found proprietor Kerry Bennett and (always friendly) bartender Ashley O’Brien smiling widely behind the bar. “Great day,” Kerry told me, “we saw a real uptick in business due to the Princess out there.” Harrison Daly, a server at Sambo’s, responded with a single word when I asked him how business had been on Tuesday. “Booming,” he said, grinning. While it is indeed true that local restaurants see a fair share of additional business when these ships pull into town—Brian Slagle attributes that to the potential that passengers are tired, already, of boat food—retail and
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