February 12, 2021 By H. Nelson Spencer
Capt. Ronnie Paul Stevens, 51, knew at an early age he was going to be the captain one day of a towing vessel in the commercial marine industry. He loved being on the water and was raised around boats. His father worked at a shipyard in Lockport, La., where he was born and raised. Plus, his two best friends and their father worked on boats.
“Why wait?” he remembers asking himself when he was a sophomore in high school. “Why not just start my career right away, and make a good living doing what I love?”
Unique Hudson Valley Businesses
We learned so much about some great Hudson Valley businesses.
After a whole bunch of thinking, we decided that we needed to try one more time to save as many local Hudson Valley businesses as we can. How? We want to spread the word on any and all locally owned places in the Valley that have something unique about them. The Hudson valley is so big that most of us have no idea about any of the cool places that might not be in our neighborhoods.
To give some shine to some of the great places to shop or eat at, we asked you, tell us about a place that you know about that we need to check out. Any place goes, the only rule we want to follow is that the place you recommend has to have something unique about it.