Brewery breaks ground in Canton

A groundbreaking ceremony took place Friday at Bent Beam Brewing, 41 West St., Canton. In the front row, from the left are, Deputy Mayor Anna Sorensen, Village Trustee Barbara Beekman, Patrick Kelly, chief executive officer St. Lawrence County Industrial Development Agency, Canton’s Director of Economic Development Leigh Rodriguez, Bent Beam Brewing investors, Mark Brackett, Joe Erlichman, and Jim Erlichman. In the back row are Mayor Michael Dalton, Aaron Jarvis, Tisdale Associates, Dean Chilton, Northern Tier Construction, Gouverneur, David Warner, Gary Hammond, Scott Wright, Dave Murphy, Scott Chisholm, and Zack Erlichman, investors. NCNow Photo by Paul Mitchell.