The Bloomsburg Daily
Local for Bloomsburg, PA
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Why Isn’t Local News More Open?
Read more: Why Isn’t Local News More Open?As a librarian at Penn State University, my job centers on helping users—students, faculty, and community members—find the information they need. Focusing on this important task for over fifteen years has given me a valuable perspective on how information is created, published, and made available. To a librarian, there’s nothing more exciting than an information challenge—helping someone find the newspaper articles or the books they need to dig deeper into a research area. During the recent Bloomsburg flood, my skills as a librarian were put to the test. I read about the Bloomsburg Press Enterprise’s paywall—re-erected after five days of…
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A Flood of Silence: Sarah Rudolph
Read more: A Flood of Silence: Sarah RudolphA Flood of Silence is an ongoing series of digital stories from those personally affected by the 2011 flood in Bloomsburg, PA. The third vignette being released today is titled, “Just Like That, It Is Gone.” This scene features Sarah Rudolph and her 12 year old grandson, Clay, in a story that shares the pain of losing everything and an amazing willingness to do things that are well beyond the expected. Mrs. Rudolph told us that her back yard opens to the Fairgrounds. Her neighbors had a hot dog cart on Leonard Street and used it to feed workers during…
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Mini-Fair this Weekend
Read more: Mini-Fair this Weekend4-H members from Columbia County, as well as six other nearby counties, will put on a Mini-Fair this weekend. It will happen at the Bloomsburg Fairgrounds in the barn area. Parking and admission are free, and over 30 vendors will be in attendance (including John the Greek, Dave’s Concessions, Williams Concessions, Hewlett’s & others). There will also be crafts/jewelry and games. About 240 goats, sheep, hogs, beef cattle, and steer will be featured. The animals are raised by 4-H members. Shows include: Friday, October 14th: 6:00 PM Sheep and Market Lamb Show Saturday, October 15th: 8:00 AM Market Hog Show…
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Rainfall Brings a Chance of Localized Flooding
Read more: Rainfall Brings a Chance of Localized FloodingIt had to end sooner or later – our fantastic run of weather over the last week is ending with a storm system moving north from the Florida panhandle and up just inside the East Coast. A few months from now, we would be talking snow, but this will be a classic October rainstorm. Lately, folks in Columbia County hear rain and immediately wonder if that means flooding. As it appears now, it seems the storm track would focus the heaviest rain to Bloomburg’s west, back into the spine of the Appalachians and western Pennsylvania. This would mean that there…
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Plagued by Doubts, Flood Victims Begin Again
Read more: Plagued by Doubts, Flood Victims Begin AgainWarm October days, cool crisp evenings, the noise of saws and hammers, slowly dwindling piles of debris. All of these sights and sounds makes one think that a month after the flooding caused by Tropical Storm Lee, life is starting to return to normal in Bloomsburg. But for Tina Parks Erb, her husband Marlin, and their sons Kyle (17) and Walker (8), things are far from normal. For them, their neighbors in the west end of town, and all families affected by the flood, new worries and dangers abound. On Wednesday, September 7th the sheriff’s office alerted Mrs. Erb and…