Erie Canal Lock 33

PHOTOS!

Carmella Mantello the director of the NYS Canal system stopped, August 2008. Photo 1, Photo 2.

Photos--Fall 2007 #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20

Photos from June 21, 2007
New signs are up! #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7

Lock 33 in the spring
Fossils in the stone of the lock
Lock 33, looking at present Erie Canal
Large view of Lock 33 when in use
St. Johnsville Marina in the winter

Bridge closed in Mindenville
Temporary Bridge in Mindenville
Long View of Bridge which is going to be torn down
New Bridge in Mindenville #1, #2, #3
Drop culvert, filled up and had to be dug out. Once went under the old Erie Canal.
Other side of the drop culvert, near river
This is what the drop culvert used to look like!
January 3, 2007. Jack Frost visited. #1, #2, #3
Repaired Drop Culvert South End Jan 07
Repaired Drop Culvert, North End Jan 07
January 13, Cold morning, #1, #2
Photos of flood June 30, 2006, #1,#2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8

PRESS RELEASE, Amsterdam Recorder.

MINDEN — Town of Minden resident Terry Potoczny has won the grand prize in the latest Explore! photography contest. Explore!, a half-hour television program that features Central New York history, arts, and culture, is broadcast locally on WUTR, Channel 20 at 10 a.m. Sundays. The award was announced during the Dec. 24 telecast.

Potoczny's winning entry is "Morning Dew," a close-up digital photograph of dew dripping off wild grapes. For his winning photograph, Potoczny will receive a night's stay for two at Hotel Utica and a membership to Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute.

Potoczny has also won three of the program's weekly photography contests. Several of his photographs, including photos of Minden's historic Lock 33 and the St. Johnsville Community House, can be seen on the program's Web site http://www.explore-tv.net.

A St. Johnsville volunteer firefighter, Potoczny also takes photographs at fire and accident scenes, many of which have appeared in local newspapers and on the fire department's Web site. http://www.stjfd.com.