A local business will be expanding with some help from New York State.

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli was in Boonville today to announce a $3.2 million loan from the state's Common Retirement Fund to Nirvana Water.

With the loan and other funding sources, Nirvana has purchased a high speed bottling line that will produce 12-million cases of bottled water a year and increase their workforce by 50 people.

The company currently has more that 100 employees.

The loan is the1,000 granted to small businesses in the state since 1987.

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