SIDNEY—In Monday's edition of The Evening Sun, a report was published that detailed a recent approval by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to approve nearly 2 million in grants that would lead to flood mitigation of the swath of land affected in 2006 and 2011.

But another relevant twist of fate for Sidney village residents were made aware yet another $16 million in FEMA grants were given the go-ahead to buy houses in neighborhoods between River Street and the railroad tracks.

Residents across the Southern Tier spent hundreds of thousands of dollars repairing water damaged homes and businesses, many of them reduced to taking out second mortgages after the floods of 2006 and 2011.