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Photo courtesy of The Vermont Standard of Woodstock
Phil Camp, publisher
and owner of The Vermont Standard of Woodstock, stands booted in mud,
talking with a neighbor near a wall of the newspaper’s building
ripped loose and leaning from the force of a flood caused by Tropical
Storm Irene in August. For more photos of the Vermont Standard’s
battle with Irene and back, please click here.
In
aftermath of Irene’s floods
Torrent
of town support,
staff perseverance, put
Vt. weekly back on its feet
By Moriah
Sargent
Bulletin Staff
In late August,
Phil Camp and the staff at The Vermont Standard of Woodstock were scrambling
to maintain the weekly newspaper’s record of never missing an
edition in its 159-year history. Its building was severely damaged by
flooding from Tropical Storm Irene on Sunday, Aug. 28, three days before
its next edition was scheduled to go to print.
 “We
were totally wiped out. We had nothing to go on but our desire to never
miss an edition,” Camp, owner and publisher of the Vermont Standard,
said.
Unable to work in
the building because of damage from the flood, the staff set up a temporary
office in another building, and successfully published that week’s
newspaper.
In the eight months
since Irene, the Vermont Standard has recovered from the flooding. The
newspaper has permanently relocated and has had increases in its advertising
and newspaper sales. The newspaper is running ahead of last year in
both categories.
“We achieved a lot in a short amount of time,” Jon Estey,
general manager of the Vermont Standard, said.
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