Above: YouTube footage of a fire at the Grandview Palace in Fallsburg. Early on in the video, a woman - presumably a resident of the complex - can be heard saying, "Well, there goes our first investment in real estate."

For the second weekend in a row, fire has raged across the site of a former icon of the Borscht Belt, destroying buildings and calling hundreds of firefighters to the scene.

On Saturday, a fire broke out at the Fallsburg condo complex Grandview Palace, formerly known as Brown's Hotel, and destroyed or damaged seven of the complex's nine buildings.

SUNY Delhi students Jonathon Cusimano, Phil Bianchi, and Andrew Marsh at the New York State SkillsUSA competition on March 24 at Alfred State's School of Applied Technology, Wellsville. Photo courtesy of SUNY Delhi.

Three SUNY Delhi students are headed for the nationals in a career skills competition after winning top prizes at the New York State level.

SkillsUSA -- formerly known as the "Skill Olympics" -- is a national competition for vocational and technical skills, pitting students across the country against one another in career-related events like producing a radio spot, performing aircraft maintenance tasks, or conducting a crime scene investigation.

At the New York State SkillsUSA competition on March 24, SUNY Delhi student Phil Bianchi of Montauk took first prize in automotive service. Jonathon Cusimano of Vestal and Andrew Marsh of Elmira Heights took first and second place in carpentry.

Mike Hein announces an executive order banning the use of frac fluid by any county department. Photo courtesy of the Office of the Ulster County Executive.

Ulster County executive Mike Hein issued an executive order today to prevent the spreading of brine from hydraulic fracturing on any county-maintained roads.

The executive order bans "the purchase of any liquid waste product from hydraulic fracturing operations (fracking waste brine) or the use of such fracking brine by any part of Ulster County government." The ban does not apply to town or state roads in the county.

The frac fluid spreading ban is Hein's second executive order since taking office in 2009. Hein's first executive order, in 2010, was an official ban on nepotism in hiring for county jobs.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo at the Middleburgh Fire Department today, announcing that New York State will cover the local share of flood recovery costs in 25 counties. Photo by David Avitabile of the Schoharie County Times Journal; reproduced by permission.

Local officials in flood-ravaged towns across New York State are breathing a sigh of relief today, after an announcement by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that the state will be picking up the tab for the local share of flood recovery funding. Cuomo visited the Middleburgh Fire Department today, in hard-hit Schoharie County, to make the announcement before an audience of about 150 local officials and residents.

Disaster recovery projects are usually funded by FEMA at 75 percent, with the remaining 25 percent split equally between the state and local towns, counties or villages. The local share of costs -- 12.5 percent -- doesn't sound like a lot compared to the entire cost of the projects. But for last year's flooding, all those local costs add up up to a whopping $61 million in New York State alone.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo will pay a visit to the Schoharie County town of Middleburgh today at 12:30 to make a public announcement about flood recovery in the area.

Cuomo will be at the headquarters of the Middleburgh Fire Department, at 127 Railroad Avenue. On their Facebook page, the Middleburgh Fire Department tells people who want to attend to get there early so they can be seated.

Update, 10:40am: Gannett state government reporter Jon Campbell tweets:

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