accidents
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010 - 2:46 pm
A press release issued today by the Delaware Sheriff's Department reports that the county responded to two car accidents on Friday. The release:
December 10, 2010
Sheriff's Deputies investigated a 2 car property damage accident on State 10 in the hamlet... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 - 4:34 pm
You've really got to watch your step in the mountains during hunting season. Just ask Greene County man Robert Warrings -- who, it is alleged, was shot at several times by a local sheriff's officer while tracking a bear. The Daily Mail reports:
The state... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010 - 7:19 pm
When you hit a deer, as so many of us have in the Catskills, your first worry is instant death and dismemberment, your second is for the cost of autobody repair, and your third, maybe, is for the deer. But last week, a 25-year-old man from Mount Vision... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 - 3:53 pm
Two Honduran immigrant brothers perished in a fire at a Saugerties riding club when their cigarettes ignited their wood-frame bungalow on Wednesday night, Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record reports in today's paper.
While the police have released few... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 - 3:29 pm
Jay Todd of Arkville was killed last night when he was struck by a car, while walking on Route 28 in Arkville Middletown.* A press release issued today by the Delaware County Sheriff's Department:
On Wednesday evening Delaware County Sheriff's Deputies... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 - 9:08 am
ATVs and shotguns can be a hazardous mix. When 36-year-old George M. Banks set out to hunt waterfowl with his two children on Monday in Esopus, he put one of his loaded shotguns on the back of his four-wheeler, where it got tangled up in some netting.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 - 10:37 am
Two people were killed in a two-car accident on Rte. 23 in Davenport yesterday during the afternoon's sudden heavy snowstorm.
The State Police have released little information about the accident, and the names of the two victims are not known. The police... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 1, 2010 - 10:12 am
A 24-year-old whose name is being withheld died around noon yesterday on the New York Thruway in the town of Catskill after his motorcycle slammed into a guardrail, State Police report. Here's the full press release:
On October 31, 2010 the New York... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010 - 12:11 pm
The Daily Mail has the details:
A 29-year-old Durham man died Wednesday night in an ATV accident on Cunningham Road, state police said Friday.
Earlier: Other recent ATV fatalities in the Catskills.
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010 - 6:05 pm
"My Headlight After a Deer Encounter." Photo by Flickr user joanna8555.
Sometimes, the deer really are out to get you, the Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin reported on Sunday:
Solon "Stevie" Tsangaras was driving back from a music gig near the hamlet... Read more



