03/23/2026
We had the best time chatting with Sam Ferland and Carol Lollis from the Daily Hampshire Gazette last week!
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Julie Tuman unveiled 84 strawberry watermelon fruit punch popsicles that were just frozen below -20 degrees on a recent weekday afternoon, with trademark crooked sticks jutting out from the bottoms.
âThis is Little Guy, everything has a name here,â said Tuman, owner and pop master of Crooked Stick Pops, pointing to a machine that can freeze popsicles in about 25 minutes. âLittle guy can do 84 pops at a time.â
Locals may have gotten a pop from Tuman at local farmersâ markets, at Cultural Chaos or even the now-closed Crooked Stick Pop shop that was previously located in the Eastworks building.
Crooked Stick Pops has been serving fresh popsicles made from local produce for a decade now, since opening in 2016. While coincidental on its 10-year anniversary, the businessâ headquarters is taking a short but expansive relocation, moving from the second to the first floor of the Keystone Building to allow for more pop production for all of the Valley and beyond to enjoy.
Tumanâs popsicle-making operations relocation is being helped by a $40,000 grant from the MassDevelopmentâs Biz-M-Power Program.
The grant allowed Tuman to purchase a new walk-in freezer that will triple her storage capacity. She currently has one 10-by-10-foot freezer that will be in the new location, along with the new 10-by-20-foot freezer.
âFor a lot of this itâs like, big deal what does that do?â Tuman said about the additional freezer. âWell, that means that I can actually be operational year-round because pops when theyâre in these deep freezes, they stay good, hard stop.â
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âïžSam Ferland
đžCarol Lollis
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