LOWVILLE, N.Y.—When the Philadelphia Cream Cheese factory here started making string cheese, too, in the summer of 2017, it brought scores of new jobs to town. It also boosted the facility’s water ...

Growing up, Francisco Ochoa remembers selling his father’s homemade cheese door-to-door in Salem on the same streets behind where his 9,000-square-foot cheese creamery now sits. Today, that creamery ...