accidents
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 30, 2012 - 10:57 am
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office reports that a driver was injured on Friday afternoon in Accord, when a large tree branch broke and fell onto the windshield of her car.
According to a press release from the sheriff's office, Debra Fehring, a 50-year-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 22, 2012 - 11:34 pm
Two cars collided head-on on Route 299 in New Paltz around 11pm on Saturday night, when a Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by 45-year-old Highland resident Jeffrey Davis left its lane and drifted into oncoming traffic.
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 22, 2012 - 10:50 pm
The Daily Mail reports that on Saturday, an unattended cigarette sparked a blaze at a home in Catskill that left a family homeless and kept six fire departments busy through the afternoon:
The six-alarm fire was called in at 1:32 p. m. Saturday and first... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 9, 2012 - 10:54 am
Above: Video of fire at the Tamarack Lodge from the Times Herald-Record.
Wildfire raged across the property of the former Tamarack Lodge on Route 52 in Greenfield Park over the weekend, destroying dozens of buildings and calling hundreds of firefighters... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 6, 2012 - 11:39 am
An experimental plane struck a tree and crashed in a Kerhonkson field late in the afternoon on Thursday. Its pilot and sole occupant, 50-year-old New Paltz resident Mark Thomas, was injured in the crash, but according to a New York State Police press... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 1, 2012 - 3:58 pm
Lisa VanOrden, a 49-year-old Kerhonkson resident, died on Saturday, March 31 after a one-vehicle car crash on Samsonville Road in the town of Rochester.
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office reports that she was found unconscious in the car after her vehicle... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 28, 2012 - 10:25 am
Above: WNYT's report on the fire at the Red Barn Restaurant in Summit on Monday.
Today's forecast for the Catskills region is looking pretty soggy -- but earlier this week, dry weather and high winds were a recipe for increased risk of fires.
Several... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 19, 2012 - 8:25 am
A small plane went down near Jennings Road in New Baltimore on Sunday, March 18, leaving its solo pilot with minor injuries, several news outlets are reporting.
The Daily Mail has an account of the crash, and a photo of the crashed plane -- a 2/3-scale... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 14, 2012 - 9:57 am
On Monday, March 12, a driver lost control of a car headed southbound on Route 17 near Monticello, plunging down a steep embankment, rolling several times, and killing a passenger. Driver Michael Messineo, a 58-year-old resident of Liberty, stands charged... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 13, 2012 - 2:26 pm
Photo of Indian spices by Flickr user Francis Bijl. Published under Creative Commons license.
File under: Better safe than sorry.
Rondout Valley High School and Middle School were put under a brief lockdown around 10am on Monday, March 12, when a FedEx... Read more
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