Category: Featured
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Live Stream of Rep. Millard Fernville Meeting
Read more: Live Stream of Rep. Millard Fernville MeetingHere is the video archive of the meeting between Rep. Millard, Hemlock Township officials, and Fernville residents. Part 1 of 3 Part 2 of 3 Part 3 of 3
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An Update on FEMA Funds and Mobile Homes
Read more: An Update on FEMA Funds and Mobile HomesThe Bloomsburg Daily had a chance to talk with Eugene Brezeny from the FEMA News Desk in Harrisburg this morning. The goal was to get a status update on the amount of funds disbursed to Columbia County at this point, as well as to get an update on the status of FEMA mobile homes and when they might show up in the area. In the statistics news, as of this morning (10/20/2011), FEMA has received 2329 disaster assistance applications from Columbia County for Tropical Storm Lee. Of those, 1436 have been approved. Those approved applications represent $7 million in assistance to Columbia…
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Town Addresses Citizens Regarding Flood Response
Read more: Town Addresses Citizens Regarding Flood ResponseListen to the Audio of Dan Knorr’s Opening Remarks at the Flood Forum Watch the Live Stream Archive of the Event (High Def Version Coming Soon) Read the Live Blog, a minute-by-minute account of last night’s meeting Concerned members of the community met with Mayor Dan Knorr and local officials last night to discuss the town response to the disastrous September flooding. Mayor Knorr stated that the goal was to know what went right, what went wrong, and what could be done better in future flooding situations. He stated that “It’s critical that we not rely on memory, on word…
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Flood Open Forum Live Blog
Read more: Flood Open Forum Live Blog8:00 Mayor: Getting Federal dollars is more difficult due to lack of earmarks. Money is awarded to best project on cost basis, rather than influence over political leaders. 7:58 Resident: With future flood plans, is it possible to coordinate flood planning efforts with towns upriver? Mayor responds that he would like to see a regional plan, but also feels that he needs to fight specifically for his town against other communities in getting flood protection. 7:55 Resident concerned that Emergency Services, waking people at 2AM to evacuate, only told people to “get out” with no information on specifically where to…
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An Interview with Bloomsburg University President David Soltz
Read more: An Interview with Bloomsburg University President David SoltzMany of us have the impression that given a week off from school due to a natural disaster, the typical college student would go home to see family or take a road trip to visit friends. The scenario we envision would probably not include staying in a flood-ravaged town without running water and scooping sewage-laced river mud out of a home twelve blocks away from the student’s apartment. However, in the aftermath of the 2011 flood, Bloomsburg University students gave tremendously to the relief effort. In addition, the entire university community — faculty, staff, students, and administrators — came together…
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Marcellus Research Network to Track Water Quality
Read more: Marcellus Research Network to Track Water QualityUNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Development of a database that will be able to track potential impacts of Marcellus Shale activity on water quality is the focus of a new $750,000 research collaboration led by Penn State researchers. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the Marcellus Shale Research Network will consolidate and routinely update water data being collected by watershed groups, government agencies, industry stakeholders and universities as a searchable database. The project also will facilitate and train additional community groups in how to organize, collect and interpret water data. “Significant data collection is occurring throughout the Marcellus Shale region, but…
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Remember When: Main Street Eats
Read more: Remember When: Main Street EatsThis is your column. It is our hope you will use it to tell our stories: Bloomsburg’s stories. It will grow and meander, just like a conversation. It is a conversation: our conversation with our past. Where is this going? We’re not sure yet. It’s up to all of us. I’ll start: My name is Jen Ralston and I was born at Bloom Hospital in 1971. I moved to New York City in 1989 to attend college and stayed there to pursue a career in sound editing for film. I still work in that field and because of that,…
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Saturday Morning Sports Links
Read more: Saturday Morning Sports LinksWe have three great local football match-ups on tap for today. The rain may have postponed the Bloomsburg High School Panthers’ game versus Hughesville yesterday, but it gives us all a second chance to get to Hughesville and support the Panthers tonight. The game is at Hughesville Junior/Senior High School at 7:00 PM. Also, you should definitely take a few minutes and read about quarterback Blake Rankin and the Panthers overcoming the adversity of the flood in this great Reading Eagle article. The disastrous flood which moved foundations and canceled the traditional Bloomsburg Fair, hasn’t derailed a Panthers squad which…
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The Truth About Numbers
Read more: The Truth About NumbersWith the devastation that was brought to the region by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee, it seems as though everyone has been scrambling to find statistics that accurately depict the damage that the community has endured. Statistical accuracies are proving quite elusive however, and the amount of numbers circulating about the region are enough to make one dizzy. One can look to FEMA and the number of persons who have applied for aid as a reliable source of quantifiable data from the region. Eugene Brezany, spokesman for FEMA, confirmed that as of Oct. 11th, 2,238 applications have been received…
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Visiting Nurses Braved Flood Dangers
Read more: Visiting Nurses Braved Flood DangersWhen disaster strikes, most people are healthy enough to escape the danger on their own or take care of themselves for a few days while roads clear and the crisis passes. There are those among us however, who are less fortunate: the sick, the elderly, and the terminally ill. These are people who require constant, daily care, regardless of regional emergencies or disasters. Since 1967, the community health care workers of Columbia-Montour Home Health & Hospice, part of the Bloomsburg Health System, have provided in-home nursing and care-giving services for all of Columbia and Montour counties, as well as most…