Ok thanks, there is a fair of some kind at Woodstock NY this weekend

"Alice Faber" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "Ozgirl" > wrote:
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>> "W. Baker" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> >
>>
>> > Thanks- what URL did you use to get the intol I seem to keep
>> > floudering
>> > looking for info for Margaretville(not the floood) but where are
>> > roads
>> > now, power, etc?
>>
>> And of course the complaints start :
>>
>> "http://www.wfsb.com/story/15386210/clp-lights-up-woodstock-fair-while-half-of
>> -town-out-of-power
>>
>> While more than half of Woodstock sits in the dark, the 151st annual
>> Woodstock Fair kicked off Friday with the lights on.
>>
>> And now some people in town are critical that Connecticut Light &
>> Power
>> restored power to the fair before theirs.
>>
>> While most of the spinning rides at the fair operate on an
>> independent
>> generator system, the concessions and other venues take power from CL
>> &
>> P's grid. The fairs sits at the center of town on Route 44 and on the
>> main artery for CL&P.
>>
>> Still, the timing couldn't be worse.
>>
>> "The fair is a good thing for Woodstock. I can see the resentment
>> you
>> know. But I'm not going to get upset about it," said Bill Duke of
>> Woodstock.
>>
>> Allan Walker Jr. ,Woodstock's First Selectman, said the fair is an
>> economic engine for the town, generating $4 million a year.
>>
>> "We want everybody in the town, individuals, companies to have power.
>> There was no preference to the Fair," Walker said."
>
> That's Woodstock, CT (a very small town), not Woodstock, NY (where
> Evelyn lives), which is some 150 miles away. Woodstock CT is in the NE
> corner of the state, where many people are, indeed, still without
> power,
> and will be until the middle of next week. Rt 44 is the main E-W road
> in
> the northern part of the state, and it would indeed get power before
> side roads would.
>
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