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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2011 - 6:07 pm
After the flooding of Irene and Lee, NYC food blogger Liza de Guia, who makes short behind-the-scenes documentary films about food from field to fork, visited Maple Downs Farm in Middleburgh. What she found was a landscape that has become all too familiar... Read more
By Carol La Monda on Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 - 12:24 pm
Above: A view of the Boiceville business district on Route 28, taken on Sunday, August 28, 2011. From Jan Ryan and Ann Davies.
Like 9/11 or the assassination of JFK, people in the Catskills will also remember the details of the hurricane and flood. ... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 21, 2011 - 11:29 am
Photo of Catskills vista by Flickr user ohmann alianne. Published under Creative Commons license.
Last week, New York Post travel writer David Landsel took a spin up Route 28 to see what Irene hath wrought.
Landsel, a local boy whose grandmother had a... Read more
By Rich Muellerleile on Tuesday, Sep. 20, 2011 - 5:00 pm
As I stood in my own ambulance bay in Phoenicia on September the 16th -- anxious, profusely sweating, and feeling rather defeated after I denied repeated offers of a tetanus vaccine from the kind and concerned representatives from the Ulster County... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Sep. 20, 2011 - 10:49 am
Above: Video footage taken in Prattsville on August 29, the day after flooding from Tropical Storm Irene destroyed most of the town's Main Street.
In the New York Post on Sunday, September 18: A suspected scammer posing as a volunteer for Prattsville's... Read more
By wateradmin on Thursday, Sep. 15, 2011 - 10:05 am
Downtown Phoenicia. Photo by Daniel Case, via Wikimedia Commons.
In this case “you” refers to anyone who periodically enjoys spending time -- and, preferably, a little money also -- inside Shandaken. With only a few exceptions, the town is open and ready... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 6, 2011 - 10:48 am
Chuck Schumer was in Shandaken yesterday to see the damage caused by the floodwaters of Hurricane Irene, according to the Daily Freeman:
The visit was conducted with Federal Emergency Management Agency Regional Administrator Lynn Canton, with Shandaken... Read more
By wateradmin on Monday, Sep. 5, 2011 - 10:33 pm
Above: M.F. Whitney Hose Company in Phoenicia. Photo by GreeneFireApparatus.net.
It's not our roads - though in most cases they're not getting any younger. And it's not our bridges either. For unwanted reasons, most of them are slated for emergency... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Sep. 3, 2011 - 2:27 am
Town supervisor Dennis Richards Friday at the command post in the Middleburgh village office: Photo by Marty Rosen.
Hurricane Irene plunged rural Schoharie County into a nightmare.
During the storm last Sunday, emergency sirens blasted. Emergency... Read more
By wateradmin on Friday, Sep. 2, 2011 - 11:07 pm
Burning Barn from wet hay spontaneous combustion in Schararie County. Photo credit Shannon VanKuren.
Ulla Kjarval of Spring Lake Farm in Delhi provides this report on the impact this week's flodding has had on our region's farms.
Many New York State farms... Read more
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