September 27, 1911; Livingston Manor Times

"[Hurleyville] At the last school meeting held Monday evening, September 26, in the school house, it was voted that $14,500 be raised to build the new school, which is to be built of tile.

"We understand that the building will have all modern improvements. Bonds are to be issued within sixty days."

".... When a ditch was blocked near the Henry Horstman farm on Cold Spring Road, 800 chickens were drowned in their coop - about 500 of them six-weeks old and 300 of them only two weeks old. Some 600 others escaped the floods.

"While hotelmen have grown accustomed to week-end storms, that Saturday night failed to come early enough to spoil a resort business believed by many to have been the best this season in the county."

August 11, 1938; Liberty Register

"... The road from Liberty to Neversink was blocked when a bridge about a mile out of the village was made impassable. The Town of Neversink has advertised a vote on a $14,000 bond issue to repair damage of nearly three weeks ago, but what the new loss will be has not been determined.

"The New York Ontario & Western Railway Company reported extensive damage along the stretch between Youngs Gap and Parksville, with main lines washed out in several places. A northbound train Saturday night was halted near the Gap and passengers transferred to automobiles.

"The flood hit Liberty pretty hard, damaging the sewage plant into which four feet of water flowed and caused the pumps to burn out. Darbee Road was badly washed and the brook was plugged up, with loss to Sprague Brothers, publishers of the Liberty Gazette and the New York State Electric & Gas Corporation. The storm sewer couldn't handle the torrent and a crew under John Lawrence, superintendent of public works, did a good job in working all night to restore service facilities by 9 a.m. Sunday. Mr. Lawrence estimates the damage in the village proper may have reached several thousand dollars...."

"... The car swept into the floods was a sedan owned by Abrham Steckler, of the Bronx, operated by his son, David, 28. Steckler had left his parents at the Grossinger at Ferndale about 9 p.m. It had rained heavily between Ferndale and Parksville about 45 minutes, ending at about 8. Finding no accomodations at the Grossinger, Steckler started for here. He drove the car through rising water on the bridge just at the intersection of Route 17 with the Grossinger road and was proceeding all right until the torrent touched the battery, when the motor stalled.

"Steckler got out of the car and waded to safety. The water rose to within a foot of the top of the vehicle and carried it downstream over loosened highway posts. It was found Sunday morning bottomside up in a depression about 50 feet from the normal river bed. Four occupants of another car also abandoned it for safety and saw it about to be swept after the other until it bacame enmashed in the dangling highway posts. It was saved by a tow-truck a few hours afterwards. The bridge was but slightly damaged."

August 11, 1938; Liberty Register