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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015 - 9:47 am
Above: A house and propane tank (white, center of photo) that were hit by a BMW on Monday, Aug. 10. Image via Google Earth.
Eight fire companies responded to a home on Glenford Wittenberg Road in the Ulster County town of Hurley on Monday night after a... Read more
By Jeanine Pascarella on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015 - 1:28 pm
Recreation and the outdoors are not just for able-bodied people. Adults and children with physical challenges benefit from exercise and the balance that comes from nature and fitness. Here are some opportunities that allow everyone equal access to the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015 - 10:56 am
Above: An aerial image of the railroad tracks in the village of Otego. Image via Google Earth.
A Delaware County couple riding in a golf cart with their dog was hit by a train while crossing railroad tracks in the Otsego County village Otego on Sunday,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 10, 2015 - 3:50 pm
It's August, the very peak of the high summer season in the Catskills, and the roads are jammed with drivers. That means more crashes, especially on weekends, when the region's many visitors are in transit.
In one week, there have been two crashes on the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 10, 2015 - 2:25 pm
On Friday evening, a Long Island man sped through the Delaware County town of Colchester on a motorcycle at 127 miles per hour, police say.
Thirty-five-year-old Anthony J. Mcnamee of Suffolk County was in a 55-mile-per-hour speed zone on Route 30 on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 10, 2015 - 11:46 am
A 55-year-old man was arrested in the village of Sharon Springs on Wednesday, Aug. 5 for attempting to hurt his neighbor by putting glass in his neighbor's pool, police say.
Left: John Schultheis. Photo via the New York State Police.
New York State... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Friday, Aug. 7, 2015 - 5:42 pm
Above: This map, from the Delaware County Electric Cooperative website, shows areas targeted for construction of fiber-optic data lines.
Just as the Rural Electrification Administration brought electric power to remote areas of the nation in the 1930s, a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015 - 11:41 am
Above: Heroin. Photo by psychonaught, via Wikipedia.
It's been a huge year for drug busts in Sullivan County. In March, a group of 13 people -- including two men in Monticello -- were arrested for trafficking heroin into upstate New York and Pennsylvania... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015 - 8:54 am
Above: Video footage of Tuesday's bear rescue, shot by DEC Conservation Officer Anthony Glorioso's body camera.
Officer Anthony Glorioso of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has pulled off another daring Catskills bear cub rescue... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 3, 2015 - 12:43 pm
Above: A stream of cloudy water, center, flowed from a rock embankment downstream of the Cannonsville Dam for several weeks. Photo via the NYC DEP.
A disturbing gush of cloudy water below the Cannonsville Dam was stopped on Saturday, August 1, and the... Read more
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