Torrington, CT
News
Isaias: Eversource, UI Reject Demands For Reimbursements For Food, Medicine After Outages Isaias: Eversource, UI Reject Demands For Reimbursements For Food, Medicine After Outages
Isaias: Eversource, UI Reject Demands For Reimbursements For Food, Medicine After Outages Despite calls to reimburse customers for costs incurred due to power outages after Tropical Storm Isaias barreled through the region, Eversource and United Illuminating are showing resistance to complying. Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and Gov. Ned Lamont both demanded the company reimburse customers, Eversource has thus far been reluctant to provide relief, despite utility companies in neighboring states reimbursing for prescription medication and food that spoiled during the storm cleanup. "Eversource and UI need to do the right thing as ConEd has done in New York and reimbur…

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by Zak Failla
Marlton-Evesham, NJ
Schools
Bug Off! Flying Pests Sting South Jersey Graduation Bug Off! Flying Pests Sting South Jersey Graduation
Bug Off! Flying Pests Sting South Jersey Graduation First, it was the coronavirus outbreak that delayed graduation ceremonies at a South Jersey school and just about everywhere else statewide. Then, a second natural disaster tangled with one school's graduation plans: A swarm of insects, Burlington County officials said. There was an 11th-hour surprise: A sudden swarm of unidentified bugs threatened Lumberton Middle School's class of 130 students from walking across a stage to get their diploma on Wednesday. The school district’s pest managers warned it could take 72 hours to eliminate the pesky swarm. A strategic switch led to a happy bug…

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by Jon Craig
Massapequa, NY
Weather
New Projection Issued For 'Extremely Active' Hurricane Season, With Several Major Storms New Projection Issued For 'Extremely Active' Hurricane Season, With Several Major Storms
New Projection Issued For 'Extremely Active' Hurricane Season, With Several Major Storms The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting a strong possibility of an "extremely active" and "above-normal" 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, with 13 to 19 named storms, of which several could be major hurricanes. This comes after the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University predicted 16 named storms and four major hurricanes in its 38th annual forecast previously reported here.  That would make 2020 the most active hurricane season since the record-damaging year of 2017 when hurricanes Harvey, Maria and Irma devastated parts of th…

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by Joe Lombardi
Lakewood, NJ
Obituaries
Ocean County Native Among 24 Killed In Tennessee Tornados Ocean County Native Among 24 Killed In Tennessee Tornados
Ocean County Native Among 24 Killed In Tennessee Tornados A 36-year-old Ocean County native was among two dozen people killed in a Tennessee tornadoTuesday morning. Jamie Smith, a graduate of Jackson Memorial High School, owned an office cleaning company and lived near Nashville with her 8-year-old son, Logan, NJ.com reports. Logan was staying with Smith's father when the storms hit, the media outlet says.  Smith died of injuries sustained in the tornado, her sister Kristy Bailey Loff said on Facebook. Smith came back to visit New Jersey last summer to visit friends and spend time at the beach, her brother Joseph Loff told the out…

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by Cecilia Levine
Poughkeepsie, NY
Politics
State Attorney General Declares Price Gouging Emergency In Dutchess State Attorney General Declares Price Gouging Emergency In Dutchess
State Attorney General Declares Price Gouging Emergency In Dutchess Dutchess County is among 12 counties in New York to be warned of price gouging following the Halloween storm that caused expansive flooding in the region. New York Attorney General Letitia James issued a consumer alert, warning homeowners and businesses to be on high-alert for potential price gouging after the Thursday, Oct. 31, storm that brought heavy rains and whipping winds to upstate New York. On Friday, Nov. 1, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency in 12 counties that saw widespread power outages and road closures, including Dutchess. Other counties included in Jam…

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by Zak Failla
Massapequa, NY
Weather
Photos: Long Island Tornado Touchdown Confirmed Photos: Long Island Tornado Touchdown Confirmed
Photos: Long Island Tornado Touchdown Confirmed This story has been updated. The National Weather Service has now confirmed that a tornado touched down on Long Island on Labor Day afternoon. The tornado touched down in eastern Suffolk County in Manorville, just north of Route 27 (Sunrise Highway) in the area of Dayton Avenue from 4:33 p.m. to 4:38 p.m. Monday, Sept. 2. After touching down on Dayton Avenue, the twister went northeast through the southern end of adjacent Rosewood Street and then across intersecting cross street of South Street. It then crossed the Long Island Expressway near Exit 69. Numerous downed trees and wires …

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by Joe Lombardi
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Police & Fire
STORMY FRIDAY: Homes Hit By Tree In Glen Rock, Lightning In Ramsey STORMY FRIDAY: Homes Hit By Tree In Glen Rock, Lightning In Ramsey
Stormy Friday: Homes Hit By Tree In Glen Rock, Lightning In Ramsey Lightning ignited a fire when it struck a Ramsey home, a tree crashed into a Glen Rock house and flash floods were reported throughout North Jersey during Friday's thunderstorm. The Glen Rock tree fell through the lower roof of an unoccupied Austin Place home. No injuries were reported. Municipal officials ordered the home evacuated. Glen Rock police and Hawthorne firefighters responded. In Ramsey, firefighters were assisted by their colleagues from Allendale, Ho-Ho-Kus, Mahwah and Wyckoff in handling a two-alarm fire caused by a lightning strike brought on Davidson  Boyd A. Loving cont…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Poughkeepsie, NY
News
Woman Rescued After Buildings Collapse During Storm In Poughkeepsie Woman Rescued After Buildings Collapse During Storm In Poughkeepsie
Woman Rescued After Buildings Collapse During Storm In Poughkeepsie A woman who had been trapped for several hours was pulled from the rubble by rescuers Monday night after a building collapsed onto two others in Poughkeepsie. Rotanya Hargrove was alert and conscious when she was rescued at about 8 p.m., nearly four hours after a vacant, seven-story building collapsed onto two other buildings during a severe thunderstorm with gusty winds. Hargrove, 43, suffered non-life threatening injuries. During the collapse at around 4:15 p.m., the larger building at 19 Academy St., fell onto another building at 17 Academy St., and then onto a smaller three-story build…

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by Joe Lombardi
Ridgefield, CT
Schools
Ridgefield, Danbury Schools Get State OK To Make Up Storm Days In 2018-19 Ridgefield, Danbury Schools Get State OK To Make Up Storm Days In 2018-19
Ridgefield, Danbury Schools Get State OK To Make Up Storm Days In 2018-19 The Danbury and Ridgefield school districts have been given the okay to make up missed school days next year from state officials.  All schools are required to be in session for 180 days, said Danbury Schools Superintendent Sal Pascarella.  All except three of his 18 district schools only need to make up one day of school, the others need to make up two days, he said.  The days need to be made-up next year because schools are required to end the school year by June 29, he added. Pascarella said the May 15 storm that produced a microburst that wreaked havoc on the area is the reason the di…

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by Kathy Reakes
Mahopac, NY
Lifestyle
Photo Gallery: Storm Scenes From Lake Carmel, Kent Photo Gallery: Storm Scenes From Lake Carmel, Kent
Photo Gallery: Storm Scenes From Lake Carmel, Kent A devasting storm that included two tornadoes and several macrobursts, left thousands without power, downed trees and major damage across Putnam County.  Local photographer Dan Gallo captured some of the damage. Click through to see some of the most dramatic images.  Contact Gallo at [email protected].

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by Photos by Dan Gallo
Poughkeepsie, NY
Politics
Rip Van Winkle Fire Prompts Maloney Call For New Legislation Rip Van Winkle Fire Prompts Maloney Call For New Legislation
Rip Van Winkle Fire Prompts Maloney Call For New Legislation After a fire at the 16-story Rip Van Winkle affordable housing complex in Poughkeepsie left more than 300 residents without housing, U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney announced legislation to ensure low income tenants are re-housed if they’re unable to return home.  The Affordable Housing Protection Act would direct the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to require the establishment of "pass-through leases" in the event that tenants are displaced from their federally-subsidized housing. “We’re lucky that the community rallied around the Rip Van Winkle residents after t…

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by Jon Craig
Paterson, NJ
Obituaries
Hawthorne FedEx Courier Killed In Storm Remembered As Loving Husband, Dad Hawthorne FedEx Courier Killed In Storm Remembered As Loving Husband, Dad
Hawthorne FedEx Courier Killed In Storm Remembered As Loving Husband, Dad A GoFundMe has been established to aid the family of a 25-year-old Hawthorne man who died earlier this month driving in the damaging Nor'easter. Jonathan Rodriguez-Melendez, 25, of Hawthorne, was pronounced dead on the scene when a large tree fell on his car on the Merritt Parkway in Fairfield County amid the storm. Francisco Berdecia, 33, of Paterson was a passenger in the vehicle and was transported to Greenwich Hospital with minor, non-life-threatening injuries, according to police. Rodriguez-Melendez was a courier for FedEx Express and leaves behind his mom, Lissie Melendez, his wife a…

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by Cecilia Levine