New York State Police responded earlier this week to a call for help in the Town of Mamakating, where an elderly woman was isolated at home with no transportation during below zero frigid temperatures, no food for her or her dog, and her cell phone was dead.
It sounds like the plot to a cutesy Hallmark movie, but this 80-acre apple orchard and farm market in the Hudson Valley is what farming dreams are made of.
Well, when the city of Manhattan is growing so fast that they need more water, the state invokes their "rights" and literally takes a town away from the 3000 people that lived there. That town was called Bittersweet and today it lies under 175 feet of water known as the Neversink Reservoir.