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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011 - 11:19 am
The Times Herald-Record has the grim story today: One man is dead and two people are injured after a crash near Glen Spey in Sullivan County around 3am this morning. Sullivan County Sheriff's Office officials suspect that alchohol was involved in an... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 11, 2011 - 9:20 am
The New York State Police report that a 40-year-old Deposit man was killed on Wednesday when his pickup truck collided with a tractor trailer hauling a pre-fabricated house in the town of Sanford, NY. Bruce Singleton was a football coach at Seton Catholic... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011 - 7:55 am
Above: The beginning of the Escarpment Trail. According to a post on the Catskill Mountaineer Forum, the hiker's body was found on this trial on Monday. Photo from Catskill Mountaineer. 10/16/11 Update:  A man died while hiking on the Escarpment Trail in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011 - 5:06 pm
Dana Elizabeth RiceThe body of 54-year-old Dana Rice, a Kingston resident who has been missing since September 29, was found at the bottom of a steep embankment in the town of Ulster on Friday night, according to a press release issued by the Ulster... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 11, 2011 - 9:23 am
Four people from Ulster County died in a boating accident on the Hudson River yesterday, and two more people barely escaped. The accident was horrific enough to make the papers across the state. News accounts report that six people were riding in a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 25, 2011 - 9:24 pm
Tragedy struck in Esopus this afternoon when 22-year-old Thomas Heil was struck and killed by a CSX train. His brother, 20-year-old Christopher Heil, was also on the tracks, and sustained a shoulder injury. The press release from the Ulster County Sheriff... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Apr. 1, 2011 - 1:56 pm
The Daily Star has the horrible news: An 83-year-old woman was killed yesterday when a car drove through the house in Sidney where she was waiting to get her hair done at an in-home hair salon: An 83-year-old Unadilla woman waiting to have her hair done... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 10, 2011 - 10:25 pm
On February 27, 50-year-old Timothy Shields, a photographer, was found dead in his cabin in a Big Indian housing complex on Oliverea Road. Although a medical examiner's report would show that Shields died of a pulmonary embolism, the flurry of police... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011 - 8:38 am
Twenty-eight-year-old James Persico of Saugerties was killed yesterday when his Volvo crossed into an oncoming lane on Route 32 and collided head-on with a tractor trailer, New York State Police are reporting today. Here's the full press release: The New... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011 - 11:08 am
Another person has died in a vehicular accident this week, bringing the death toll from Catskills car and snowmobile accidents up to four since Friday. The Daily Freeman and the Times Herald-Record are reporting that a 58-year-old Hurley woman died after... Read more

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