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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 1, 2011 - 11:37 am
Twenty-one-year-old Martin Morales, of Cairo, reportedly led multiple police departments from multiple counties on a day-long chase on Monday after he allegedly attempted to abduct and murder his former girlfriend in Vermont, according to the New York... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 1, 2011 - 8:33 am
According to a hydrograph from the National Weather Service, the Wallkill River in Gardiner hit 15 feet this morning, two feet above flood stage. According to historical measurements, when the river hits 15 feet, Springtown Road, Libertyville Road... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Feb. 28, 2011 - 11:03 am
On Saturday, a 1969 vintage military jet flown by 38-year-old Michael Faraldi of Germantown inexplicably crashed into the Hudson River just north of the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge, according to New York State Police and multiple press reports.
Faraldi... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Feb. 28, 2011 - 8:57 am
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office is reporting today that 21-year-old Matthew Fragner, of Kingston, has been arrested as part of a complicated, bizarre, and very damp robbery.
According to the press release, Fragner helped two other men, Shawn McCarthy... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011 - 12:06 pm
A judge has found that a group of self-described witches may have gotten special treatment from the town of Catskill – and not in a good way.
In a strongly-worded decision issued on Tuesday, Judge George J. Pulver, Jr. of the Greene County Supreme Court... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011 - 8:54 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. For some context for this week's cartoon, click here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 25, 2011 - 4:58 pm
The New York Department of Environmental Conservation and the Attorney General have struck a blow for paddlers and canoeists with a legal filing in a case that pits Adirondack landowners against the editor of the Adirondack Explorer, according to the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011 - 5:46 pm
The Daily Mail and the Daily Freeman are reporting that an unidentified person fatally jumped off the Rip Van Winkle Bridge this afternoon. The Mail reports that the bridge was closed for several hours as authorities inspected a suspicious package:
The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011 - 2:46 pm
The Daily Mail is reporting that both a Greene County Sheriff's Office squad car and a minivan were totalled in a crash on Rte. 32 in Cairo yesterday. Interestingly, the Sheriff's Office is refusing to comment on the accident at all. Still, the newspaper... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011 - 11:48 am
Yesterday's two public hearings on the proposed regulation of natural gas drilling by the Delaware River Basin Commmission had a good turnout. According to PoconoNews.net, about 500 people showed up at the meeting in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, while the... Read more
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