The Bloomsburg Daily
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Town Announces Public Meeting on Flood Buyouts
Read more: Town Announces Public Meeting on Flood BuyoutsBloomsburg Town Administrator Carol Mas issued a press release this morning announcing that an informational meeting will be held on Wednesday 23 November at 5:30PM in the Town Hall’s Council Chambers for Town residents interested in participating in the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP). This meeting follows up on the presentation FEMA made to the Town Council on Monday night. All residents interested in possibly participating in the HGMP program, or who are curious about its requirements, scope, and limitations, are encouraged to attend. The complete text of the press release follows: PUBLIC INFORMATION SESSION HAZARD MITIGATION GRANT PROGRAM Wednesday,…
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A View From There: Kilimanjaro (Part 4 of 4)
Read more: A View From There: Kilimanjaro (Part 4 of 4)Kilimanjaro. Africa’s highest mountain. Wishing to raise money for health care and education for the children of Kenya, the sister and brother team of Veronica and Richard Smiley, in partnership with the March to the Top Foundation, climbed Kilimanjaro this past August, raising $25,000 in the process. While putting together the articles on Veronica and Richard, there were simply too many wonderful photographs to choose from. Rather than leave them out, TBD decided that we would simply extend the series one more day and share as many of the Smiley’s photographs as possible. Part One of this series detailed the…
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FEMA Addresses Bloom Council on Buyouts
Read more: FEMA Addresses Bloom Council on BuyoutsRepresentatives from FEMA addressed the Bloomsburg Town Council last night, reviewing the particulars of the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) and stressing that people who wish to apply for Acquisition (commonly referred to as Buyouts) should do so quickly. The deadline for submitting a Letter of Intent/Pre-Application has been extended to Wednesday, 30 November. The Application packet submission deadline has been extended as well, to Friday, 30 December. The Letter of Intent/Pre-Application form can be downloaded from The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency. This is a direct link to PEMA’s downloadable PDF of the Letter of Intent. In light of the…
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A Flood of Silence: Dan Bauman
Read more: A Flood of Silence: Dan BaumanDaniel J. Bauman was the Mayor of Bloomsburg from 1982-1988 and 1994-1997, and is currently the vice chair of the Bloomsburg Area Joint Flood Control Authority. Mr. Bauman lives on West 3rd Street in a home that was not in the flood plain before 1972, yet has been flooded many times since then — with each big flood seemingly more devastating than the last. His involvement with the flood wall and flooding issues for the town began when he was a foreman with a Bloomsburg construction company. After the devastating Hurricane Agnes flood in 1972, he became the chairperson of…
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The View from Here: The Churches of Bloomsburg
Read more: The View from Here: The Churches of BloomsburgThe Bloomsburg Daily was founded out of a desire to document our town, to let us all see the sights and activity of happening around us in our community: The Bad, The Good, The Places we pass for years without seeing. Bloomsburg Daily Photographer Bob Rush set out to capture some of these images of our town. What he returned with surprised and delighted us all — images of our favorite churches retouched as oil paintings.
