relief
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 Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2011 - 10:39 am
The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently announced that they will be opening a mobile disaster recovery center in Catskill, from Wednesday, September 28 through Friday, September 30.
The DRC will be located at the Catskill Community Life Church at... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 - 1:27 pm
This just in from Community Reporting Alliance director Barbara Gref: The Millbrook NY-based Dyson Foundation has established two hurricane relief grant programs for nonprofit organizations in several affected counties, including Greene and Ulster. Check... 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 WP Newsroom on Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 - 11:46 am
To the editor:
In the wake of Hurricane Irene and the resultant flooding, we have organized New Paltz Flood Aid: Farmers, Families, and First Responders. Contributions and all ticket sales to Flood Aid events will be distributed to the New Paltz farmers... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 22, 2011 - 8:15 pm
The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the New York Office of Emergency Management announced today that all Disaster Recovery Centers currently operating in New York State will now be open six days a week.
A joint press release from the agencies... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 21, 2011 - 9:19 am
Above, a photo of the shed at the Prattsville Agway where the Young family was trapped during the flood, from the Young's General website.
Brian Young, the energetic owner of two Greene County and feed stores, was trapped with his family on the roof of 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