Government
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015 - 11:30 am
Stacy Post, the supervisor of the Greene County town of Windham, was indicted by a grand jury on Wednesday, Feb. 19 on 30 counts of felony eavesdropping and official misconduct, according to the Windham Journal's Michael Ryan, who was covering the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015 - 11:21 am
Above: Cold Spring House in 2008. Photo by Erika Karl via Flickr.
The Tannersville village board has decided to demolish the mouldering ruins of the historic Cold Spring House, a once opulent 200-room wooden hotel that catered to Jewish guests during... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 13, 2015 - 4:09 pm
Above: Wild boars. Via the New York Department of Environmental Conservation.
The owner of a Hancock hunting preserve must destroy his herd of illegal Eurasian boars by March 31 or face a $10,000 fine from the New York State Department of Environmental... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 13, 2015 - 12:07 pm
Above: A Save Cooper Lake poster, from SaveCooperLake.org.
Niagara Bottling Company has abandoned its proposal to bottle and sell water from Cooper Lake in the Ulster County town of Woodstock.
The Daily Freeman, which along with the Woodstock Times and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Feb. 9, 2015 - 10:18 am
Above: Anthony Atkins, Wayne Atkins and Angela Disanto. Photos via the New York State Police.
Three twenty-something residents of the Sullivan County hamlet of Grahamsville have been arrested for larceny and fraud after allegedly charging $3,000 to a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 6, 2015 - 1:04 pm
Above: A promotional video for the Catskill Park, produced by Catskill Mountainkeeper.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease, at least in Albany. And until recently, the Catskills were pretty quiet when it came to asking New York’s legislature and governor... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015 - 10:56 am
A police dispatcher working in the town of Ulster Police department stole lost cash that a citizen found and turned over to police, according to a press release on the department's Facebook page. Then the dispatcher altered a police blotter record to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015 - 12:21 pm
There's been a lot of bad checks written in Delaware County lately.
A serial check bouncer left a trail of larceny across the county earlier this month, and now the New York State Police say that they have arrested an Amsterdam man for writing $30,000 in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015 - 3:52 pm
A toddler vacationing at a camp in Loch Sheldrake reportedly drowned in a bathtub the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 20, according to multiple Sullivan County news outlets.
A sergeant answering the phone at the Fallsburg Police Department said that no one was... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 16, 2015 - 10:27 pm
Above: The first of a three-part video from the Shandaken Planning Board's public hearing on Crossroads' proposed Belleayre Resort project. Source: Town of Shandaken's YouTube channel.
For the past fifteen years, the public debate surrounding the... Read more
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