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By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014 - 2:48 pm
Left: Neal McCarthy. Photo via the New York State Police.
A man with a knife and suboxone, a narcotic, was arrested in Livingston Manor on Friday, Dec. 5 for "threatening others and destroying the interior of a house," according to the New York State... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014 - 2:27 pm
Above: Stephanie Fletcher. Photo via the New York State Police.
Stephanie Fletcher, a 29-year-old who is accused of engaging in sex acts with students while she was a teacher at Walton Central School in 2011 and 2012, admitted to some of the crimes as... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014 - 11:16 am
Left: Thomas A. Pfeiffer. Photo via the Ulster County Sheriff's Office.
Update 12/5/14: The Daily Freeman reports that Pfeiffer is a doctor; he is a licensed anesthesiologist working in the Hudson Valley.
Original story:
A 44-year-old Red Hook man is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014 - 4:28 pm
Left: Image of the suspect in a Spider-Man mask taken during the robbery on Nov. 28. Photo via the New York State Police.
Police have arrested two men in connection with a Black Friday robbery of a convenience store in the Delaware County village of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 1, 2014 - 11:52 am
An armed suspect wearing a Spider-Man mask robbed a Smoker's Choice convenience store in Walton the day after Thanksgiving, according to the New York State Police.
A police press release states that the store was robbed at 6:44 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 28 by... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014 - 9:49 pm
Update, 10:00 p.m.: According to a statement issued by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office late Tuesday evening, commercial traffic will be banned from I-84 in New York State as of 7 a.m. on Wednesday. Long tandem vehicles will also be banned from parts of the New... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014 - 5:21 pm
In a curt decision issued on Tuesday, Nov. 18, the New York State Court of Appeals ruled that the Maetreum of Cybele, a monastic branch of Paganism with a headquarters in the Catskills, is entitled to a religious property tax exemption from the Greene... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014 - 1:43 pm
Above: A paddler heads down to the shore of the Pepacton Reservoir during the 2014 boating season. Photo via the NYC DEP's Flickr page.
In the three years since the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) opened four of its upstate... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 7, 2014 - 2:41 pm
Three people have been arrested in connection with a shooting at the Hess Express gas station on Route 28 in Margaretville that left an Arkville man wounded, according to a press release issued by the New York State Police on Friday evening, Nov. 7.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014 - 1:02 pm
Former congressional hopeful Sean Eldridge has drawn the ire of the Catskill Watershed Corporation (CWC) with his comments about economic development in the New York City watershed.
Eldridge, a Democrat, lost the race for New York State's 19th... Read more
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