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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, May. 12, 2015 - 12:12 pm
A forest fire that has been burning on Hunter Mountain since Thursday, May 7 is still burning, but has not jumped its containment line, said New York State Forest Ranger Rob Dawson on Tuesday May 12.
In a sign of confidence that the Hunter Mountain fire... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, May. 10, 2015 - 11:56 pm
Above: A helicopter fights the Hunter Mountain fire on Saturday, May 9. Photo by Ariel Woolheater.
Four days after it was sparked in a remote Greene County Valley, the largest forest fire to burn in the Catskills town of Hunter in living memory is fully... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Sunday, May. 10, 2015 - 4:16 pm
Firefighters were called on Sunday afternoon, May 10 to the Delaware County Solid Waste Management Center in Walton, where a smoky fire was burning in a pile of construction and demolition debris.
The "C & D" pile contains wood, plastic and other... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, May. 7, 2015 - 8:55 pm
Above: Fire on the mountain. A helicopter pours water on a forest fire, visible as a plume of white smoke rising over the ridge, on Hunter Mountain on May 8, the second day of the blaze. Photo by Douglas Senterman.
Updates at bottom of post. -- Ed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 6, 2015 - 3:43 pm
Above: An intersection in the Delaware County hamlet of East Branch where a man drove his Jeep off an exit ramp and into the Delaware River on Tuesday, May 5. Image via Google Earth.
A 37-year-old New Jersey man was found dead inside a heavily-damaged... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 29, 2015 - 5:06 pm
A juvenile bald eagle was shot and left to starve in Otsego County last week, according to wildlife rehabilitator Wes Laraway, who runs the New York Wildlife Rescue Center in the Schoharie County town of Middleburgh.
Shooting a bald eagle is a federal... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Apr. 27, 2015 - 10:43 am
An 11-year-old DeLancey boy who was injured in an ATV crash in Hamden last week has died, according to the Delaware County Sheriff's Office and an obituary issued by the family.
Left: Nicholas J. Dungan. Photo via his obituary at the Courtney Funeral Home... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Apr. 23, 2015 - 1:26 pm
A 27-year-old Wurtsboro man beat his girlfriend with a fishing rod, then "knocked her to the ground, held her down and spit on her," according to the New York State Police.
The police press release describing the incident does not give a date or time for... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Apr. 23, 2015 - 12:57 pm
A man holding what appeared to be a handgun and wearing a mask robbed a Mirabito gas station on Main Street in the village of Hancock on Tuesday, April 21, police say.
The man held up the gas station around 10 p.m. on Tuesday night, according to a press... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Apr. 23, 2015 - 12:14 pm
A year ago, on April 23, 2014, the Delaware County Board of Supervisors voted to ask the New York State Legislature to impose a 2 percent occupancy tax on room and hotel rentals in Delaware County.
But despite broad support for the so-called bed tax among... Read more
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