All roads in Delaware County are closed today, according to a an order issued by Delaware County Sheriff Tom Mills via email at 6:25am:

By Order of Delaware County Sheriff Tom Mills - All roads in Delaware County are officially closed due to current and expected weather related road conditions. No travel is permitted except for emergency travel and mandated services.

The plan to heat the village of Fleischmanns with a communal wood boiler will live or die on community buy-in, according to Jim Waters, the director of the Catskill Forest Association (CFA), which is spearheading the proposed project. 

Waters gave a presentation about the village's plan to switch from oil heat to a community wood-fired boiler on Saturday, February 1. Videographer Jessica Vecchione was onhand, and put together a short video about the meeting, above. 

"If you have a hundred different businesses and family homes that feed into this and buy into this, then it will work," said Waters at the meeting. "So it's up to the community whether they want this project to work or not." 

Several fire companies battled a major structure fire Monday morning at a home on 4 Franklin Street in Delhi, just off the village's Main Street. Photo by Cathy Roloson and used with permission. (Thanks everyone for helping us track down the photographer!) 

An elderly couple and eight others are safe after a three-story Victorian on Franklin Street was destroyed by fire the morning of February 3, 2014. 

The home at 4 Franklin Street, just off the town's Main Street, belongs to Gerard and Lilly Breen. The couple rented several apartments on the second and third floors of their home to tenants, according to Steve Hood, the assistant chief of the Delhi Fire Department.

Four SUNY Delhi students, three of their guests, and another woman who lived in an apartment on the third floor, were in the house at the time of the fire. No one was injured.

The blaze, which began around 8:15am Monday morning, began on the third floor, Hood said. No cause has been determined.