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By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 5, 2012 - 11:11 am
Above: A gas station without gas in Fallsburg on Friday, November 2. Photo by Jason Dole.
Thousands of households are still without power today as a Nor'easter bearing six inches of snow heads for the Catskills on Wednesday.
The vast majority of those... Read more
By Jason Dole on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012 - 6:54 pm
Above: Six trees landed on this house in Woodridge. A seventh was somehow able to resist the building's attractive powers. Photos by Jason Dole.
Jason Dole has been covering the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in Sullivan County for the Watershed Post. Here... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012 - 3:32 pm
Jay Fink at WRIP 97.9FM in Greene County tells us this afternoon that Greene County's gas situation is improving, according to Wayne Speenburgh, the chairman of the Greene County Legislature. Speenburgh warns that there may be some "scattered shortages"... Read more
By Jason Dole on Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012 - 6:06 pm
Above: Manager Brian McDonald (left) of Advance Auto Parts in Liberty and his staff tracked down gas cans – a hot commodity across the tri-state area. Photo by Jason Dole.
Last week, if people in Sullivan County were concerned about anything at the gas... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012 - 5:23 pm
From WRIP radio host Jay Fink, via the station's Facebook group:
The Greene County NY Code Red system was activated a short while ago to inform residents of anticipated short-term shortages of some grades of gasoline in and around Greene County. Supplies... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012 - 2:46 pm
As of Saturday, we are hearing reports and increasing social-media chatter about gas outages spreading north into Sullivan and Ulster County.
If you have first-hand information about a gas outage -- or, better yet, a photo of a local station where gas is... Read more
By Jason Dole on Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012 - 12:42 pm
Above: Loch Sheldrake resident Della Weekes, who stopped by the Red Cross shelter at the Sullivan County Community College Field House on Friday to warm up and have a shower before going to work. All photos by Jason Dole.
Every day, electricity returns... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 - 9:51 pm
Gas shortages have been spreading across New Jersey and the greater New York City area, sending frantic drivers ever further north in search of a fuel-up. The Times Herald-Record reported earlier today that shortages have begun to affect parts of Orange... Read more
By Jason Dole on Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 - 9:28 pm
Hurricane Sandy shook up many aspects of public and private life in Sullivan County, but the elections will go on much the same as always. Only two polling places will be changed due to complications following the storm, a Board of Elections official told... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 - 3:57 pm
Above: A poster for and video excerpts of "Walking Towards America," playing at the Open Eye Theater in Margaretville today through Sunday.
This Weekend in Margaretville, the Open Eye Theater is featuring "Walking Towards America," its original one-woman... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 - 3:18 pm
Sullivan County posted its latest update on warming stations, power outages and road closures today at 1pm. Read the report in full below:
SULLIVAN COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGMENTHURRICANE SANDY RESOURCE UPDATE: November 2, 2012 | 1:00pm
• NYSEG Dry Ice... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 - 2:16 pm
Above: An Alliant Energy crew repairing power lines ravaged by Hurricane Sandy in Woodstock on Thurdsday, November 1, 2012. Photos by Anne Pyburn Craig.
Gregory Brouwer and his Alliant Energy crew left Iowa at 6am Sunday and drove two and a half days to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 - 12:52 pm
Update: Sullivan County issued another update about warming stations and shelters at 1pm. See it by clicking here.
At 10am today, Sullivan County manager David Fanslau issued an update about conditions in Sullivan County, where power outages and road... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 - 11:07 am
Woodland Valley is one of the few neighborhoods in Shandaken where the power is still out today, four days after the storm.
Carol Seitz, the president of the Woodland Community Association, has been blogging about the valley's experience of the storm at... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 - 10:58 am
Update: Two more locations for dry ice have been added in Sullivan County (Claryville FD and Highland Town Hall). Source: 1pm update from Sullivan County.
Update: Two locations for dry ice have been added in Sullivan County. Source: Sullivan County's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 - 10:04 am
The latest road closures, according to the Ulster County Sandy update page, as of 8am this morning:
Town
Road Closure List
Cross Street 1
Cross Street 2
Problem
Jurisdiction
Denning
Yagerville Rd/Cty Rt 46
Phill Martin Rd
Mill Rd
Hanging Wires... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 - 6:22 pm
Headed downstate? Gas up before you go.
On Wednesday afternoon, local filmmaker Jessica Vecchione captured footage for this sped-up film of a drive from upstate New York to New Jersey, via the New York State Thruway, NJ-17 and the Garden State Parkway.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 - 6:07 pm
With much of Sullivan County still without power and looking at another few days of power outages, warm shelter and hot showers are becoming more critical.
Sullivan County radio station WJFF announced on Facebook Thursday afternoon that several local... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 - 4:43 pm
Above: Capt. Dave Thompson uses absorbent pads to try and soak up petroleum that spilled into the Rondout Creek in Kingston on Tuesday. Photo courtesy of Riverkeeper's Dan Shapley.
In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, a petroleum spill has been spotted in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 - 4:40 pm
Here's the latest update from the town of Olive: There is "plenty" of dry ice available at the Olive Bridge Fire House until 6pm. Clerk to the Olive town supervisor Susan Horner emailed us about it this afternoon:
We just heard from the Shandaken Town... Read more
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