- Destruction of Vermont Standard Did Not Keep Them From Publishing
They Did It!
The Vermont Standard, Woodstock’s 158-year-old regional weekly newspaper, has “gone to press” and will hit the street later this tonight!
Publisher Phil Camp, whose entire business operation in West Woodstock was flooded by the Ottauquechee River, just pulled up stakes and set up camp down the road and — with his eight employees — “got ‘er done”.
As you may remember this is what happened to the Vermont Standard building:
Julia Carlisle
Woodstock Early Bird 
Posted by Jane Johnson (Truesdall & Kilner) on September 2, 2011 at 16:22
Many of us who live in the area part of the year ( my family has 4 generations in Plymouth and Woodstock) are watching all the Vermont news – bravo to VT Standard and Phil Camp and his gang!!!
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Posted by Meg Anderson on September 2, 2011 at 17:18
YAY! Absolutely wonderful news, and my father would have been “SOME impressed”. As I remember it my father helped the Vermont Standard out in a small way post-flood in 1973, at the Elm Tree Press, when it was in the then newly-built building next to the iron bridge and Leonard’s and WUHS (I have seen pictures and it was flooded by Irene this week.) The flood damage at the ETP in 1973 was a small puddle of river water in the corner of the plant closest to the Ottauquechee, but the Standard had severe water damage – nothing remotely like what they experienced on Sunday, but they needed press support then and my father was happy to help.
Here is a video of the interior of the Vermont Standard after Irene for those who haven’t seen it already: http://www.necn.com/08/29/11/Vermont-deals-with-storms-devastation/landing.html?blockID=556150&feedID=4211
Julia, kudos upon kudos for your stream of useful and important information for area residents, and for keeping many of us outside Woodstock in touch in real time with a situation which we cannot help to clean up physically, but care about with all of our hearts.
More power to you!
Meg
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