MOUNT MORRIS – A detached garage on Rte. 408 sustained heavy damage in a fire Friday afternoon. The emergency call went out at about 12:45 reporting a garage on fire. The scene was just across the road from the Mount Morris Dam and Recreation Area. First responders at the scene battled the fire but also temperatures that hovered in the single digits, with windchills below zero. No one is reported injured at this point. Multiple fire … [Read more...]
Endangered Falcons Hunt Mount Morris Dam
MOUNT MORRIS – A casual birder poked along the trail by the dam on a blustery Friday, camera at the ready. A flying bird caught his eye, too small to be a hawk but slicing the wind faster than any pigeon. Charles Negley snapped a few photos as the bird perched on a high limb. Later, when he asked some friends what he had seen, the unanimous and surprised answer was 'peregrine falcon,' an endangered species in New York State. "There were … [Read more...]