State crews are helping local public works employees remove 5 to 8 feet of lake-effect snow that has fallen on the Tug Hill.The National Weather Service says its meteorologists recorded up 64 inches in the Oswego County town of Boylston and 61 inches in the town of Montague in neighboring Lewis County.
Lewis County Fire and Emergency Management Director Bob MacKenzie says Monday that the town of Osceola received between 6 and 8 feet from lake-effect storms that began Wednesday and lasted into Sunday. He says state transportation department crews are wrapping up nearly non-stop operations that began Saturday as local crews struggled to keep up with the snow. Some rural