TRR photo by Ed Wesely During the afternoon of September 18, Calkins Creek surged against the Milanville bridge hours after it had crested.

The rumor mill. Rumors were rampant the afternoon and evening of September 18. One person told me “the Rio dam may go,” and another said, “they’ve got to empty the Cannonsville reservoir.”

As Calkins Creek splashed against the bridge in Milanville, I learned “the Delaware will rise another seven feet. It won’t crest until Sunday. They say it will reach 24 feet at Callicoon.”

Late in the day a fire truck stopped at a friend’s place and firemen suggested that the family evacuate, although sticks they’d placed in the yard clearly showed the river was receding.

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Conservancy celebrates river life come heck or high water

By KIMBERLY M. WEYANDT

NARROWSBURG, NY—When weather this past weekend threatened the eighth annual Meadow Party, the Delaware Highlands Conservatory (DHC) refused to allow their celebration to be washed out.

The annual party, scheduled for Saturday, September 18 on the meadow shores of the Upper Delaware River, was held instead the following day at the Narrowsburg school parking lot when flooding submerged the shores.

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Small town farmers seek hometown customers

WALTON, NY—There are an increasing number of farmers in the Catskills growing produce, making cheese, spinning wool, or raising grass-fed meats, and all are singing the same tune: local customers.

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