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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 - 3:06 pm
Above: Big Tree Field at the Frost Valley YMCA in Claryville this morning. Photo by Frost Valley YMCA. Below: Photo of Claryville Fire Dept. by Jennifer Grimes.
County Bridge 364 is washed out, says the Catskill Chronicle.
"The County will send a bridge... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 - 2:16 pm
Reader Larry Reilly snapped a few photos of the swollen Schoharie Creek this morning while driving along Route 23A:
Ya think?
Don't go there.
Apparently that used to be a yard.
Update: We're losing our minds from all this flood news. I accidentally... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 - 2:07 pm
Reader Lynne Resch snapped these photos of the Little Delaware from Main Street this morning while coming back from Russell's Store (amazingly, it's open):
Click here for our main story on flooding throughout the Catskills region. We will be posting... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 - 12:27 pm
Above: The Delaware River north of Delhi. Photo by Cynthia Dunne. Below: Photo collage of the West Branch from Bridge Street this morning, by Fred Harris.
The Red Cross has set up an emergency shelter at the United Ministry Church in Delhi, and some... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 - 11:50 am
Catskill Flies in Roscoe is blogging and tweeting about conditions in Roscoe all day today. Here's their latest report, from 8:40am:
UPDATE at 8:40-Walt & Chris are out checking conditions as I am on the computer-here is the latest-Russell Brook looks... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 - 11:28 am
Reader Cassandra Olin sent us a few pictures she took this morning. This one's from behind the railroad:
And this one's from the bridge on the corner of Route 28 and Dry Brook Road:
Olin writes:
On either side of the river is a trailer park that is also... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 - 11:20 am
The town of Hancock in Delaware County has declared a state of emergency, the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin and WBNG Channel 12 report.
Hancock, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Delaware County Emergency Services report a State of Emergency in Hancock. That's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 - 10:50 am
Above: Photo of a bridge in Brown Rd/McKinley Hollow in Big Indian Valley this morning by Pierre Levesque. Below, a photo of flooding reaching the door of a cabin in McKinley Hollow by Levesque.
Below: A CNN iReport by user kkeaveny. Photo taken around 4... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 - 10:42 am
The villages of Livingston Manor and Roscoe in the Town of Rockland are experiencing significant flooding, according to the Sullivan County website, and the town of Rockland has declared a state of emergency, according to County Manager David Faslau:
The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 - 10:29 am
Above: Reader Catherine Sapinsky send us this photo of the Margaretville skate park, taken this morning at 8am.
Carol O'Beirne, the Executive Director of the Central Catskills Chamber of Commerce, emails us with a report of what it looks like on the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010 - 5:22 pm
Poor little Sidney. One day, it's just like any other town in Delaware County, where people leave their cars unlocked on Main Street and the latest scandal tends to be about some new wood-boiler regulation. Next thing you know, it's on national television... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010 - 4:24 pm
Roxbury's only medical clinic will close in November, a spokeswoman for the Health Alliance of the Hudson Valley confirmed today.
“It will be closing, yes, in November,” said Sylvia Murphy, the Health Alliance's director of marketing told the Watershed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010 - 2:25 pm
Sandy Foster, of New York Times and DIY-gingerbread-cottage fame, took a bunch of lovely photos of asters by her cottage in Delhi this week.
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010 - 1:02 pm
What you really need for your cozy little upstate cabin this blizzard season is a generator and a "cottage cam," the New York Post tells us today. I'll take a few cords of wood first, thanks.
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010 - 10:58 am
The Apex Bridge over the Cannonsville Reservoir on September 27. Photo by Jack McShane.
Paddlers and canoe enthusiasts rejoiced last year when the New York City Department of Environmental Projection announced that it would be opening up the Cannonsville... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010 - 10:39 am
There's a flood watch in effect for some of the Catskills region today and tonight. (Surprise, surprise.) For the western Catskills, from NOAA:
OTSEGO-DELAWARE-SULLIVAN-PIKE-SOUTHERN WAYNE-430 AM EDT THU SEP 30 2010
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2010 - 4:24 pm
So how did the community-radio festival and training-fest in Hudson go last weekend? WGXC and the Prometheus Project have a slew of videos recording the "community radio barnraising" in action, so you can see for yourself what it was like. Here's a "video... Read more
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