Route 213 in Rosendale near the intersection with Binnewater Road is closed due to downed electrical wires, the NY Department of Transportation announced at 1:34pm Monday.
The road is expected to reopen by around 5:30pm.
State police are looking for a New Jersey man after a Sunday evening hit-and-run accident in Marlborough that left a woman injured.
At 9:17pm Sunday, a 2002 Chevrolet Suburban was driving the wrong way on one-way Western Avenue, police say. The Chevrolet collided with a 2006 Honda Civic, struck three parked cars, turned onto Route 9W, and struck another parked car. The driver, who police say is 39-year-old Juan Flores-Fernandez of Brick, New Jersey, then abandoned the car and fled.
The driver of the Honda Civic, 27-year-old Marlborough resident Stephanie Mitchell, received minor injuries in the accident. Mitchell was transported to St. Francis Hospital by Mobile Life, treated and released .
Charges against Flores-Fernandez are pending. Anyone who has information about the incident is asked to call New York State Police at Highland at 845-691-2922.
Assisting in the incident, along with state troopers, were the Marlborough Police Department, Marlborough Fire Department and Mobile Life Support.
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Above: A video report from News 10 of flooding in Middleburgh's Main Street on Friday afternoon.
Just when it was clearing up: Rainstorms moving south through the Hudson Valley prompted a fresh round of flood advisories and a few flash floods on Friday afternoon, a day after an east-moving storm prompted widespread flood watches across the Catskills.
A Brood II cicada in Malden-On-Hudson in Ulster County. Photo taken June 3, 2013 by Jen Williams Dragon.
Where, indeed? After 17 years underground, Brood II has emerged across the Northeast in the last month or so -- but not everywhere. While some areas have been inundated by the creatures, others have nary a bug.
This week, tantalized by reports of mass emergences in towns along the Hudson River, the real-estate blog Upstater set out to find out where the cicada hotspots are. And they found one: On the Ulster/Greene county line.
Above: Karen Butler, Ingrid Husam, Richard Friedberg and Wenda Habenicht protest the New York Safety Track at a town meeting on Tuesday, June 11. Photo courtesy of the Friends of Rural Life, a local group that wants the track shut down.
In Harpersfield, neighbors who are angry about the noise from a new high-performance motorcycle track are having a hard time getting their concerns heard by the town board, after town officials decided not to allow any discussion of the issue at their regular meetings.
Last month, a group of irate Harpersfield residents calling themselves "Friends of Rural Life" filed a lawsuit against the New York Safety Track as well as the Harpersfield town board and planning board, claiming that town officials violated open meeting law when they approved plans for the track.
Lady Antebellum, appearing Saturday at the Taste of Country Festival at Hunter Mountain.
Father’s Day is upon us -- an opportunity to honor and enjoy the dad in your life. This weekend, the various venues and organizations of the Catskills region and beyond have a varied batch of opportunities on tap for celebratory good times.
Some of the events listed below aren’t specifically planned with Father’s Day in mind -- but hey, paternal units come in all sorts of flavors. If you and Pater decide something is a Father’s Day outing, we’re sure the organizers won’t mind.
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The Delaware County Fairgrounds in Walton will be taken over for the weekend by the Walton Regional Livestock Show -- more prize pigs, goats, cows and sheep than you can shake a dad at. Special this year: New bull show events, with a $100 prize for the champion. Friday, June 14 through Sunday, June 16.
On Wednesday, a simmering dispute over the future of the Ulster and Delaware rail corridor in Ulster County erupted in legal action: County executive Mike Hein has served the privately-operated Catskill Mountain Railroad with a legal "demand to cure" notice, alleging that the railroad has violated the terms of their 25-year lease with the county, signed in 1991.
In the letter (embedded below), Hein states that the railroad has defaulted on nine separate points of the lease, and demands that the railroad come into compliance within 30 days, or risk forfeiting their lease and having their property seized.
Hein and county officials claim the railroad has committed the following lease violations:
A rainfall prediction issued by the National Weather Service in Binghamton early Thursday morning, calling for 2 to 3 inches of rain in the southwestern Catskills region.
The latest forecasts for a rainstorm sweeping through the area Thursday and into Friday are calling for slightly less rain than originally predicted in some areas, but flood watches remain in effect throughout the Catskills region.
As the rainstorm has moved into the area from the southwest, it has tracked slightly more south than initially expected, Hudson Valley Weather reported late Wednesday night:
Storm looks to be taking a more southerly track and also a bit weaker as well. While the HV is still under the gun for a 1-3 inch rainfall the 4-5 inches looks a bit less likely. While the 2-3 is still enough to cause some issues with flooding it is a better solution. If the storm trends any further south we may see another reduction is projected rainfall.
An Elmont man stabbed himself to death while driving on the New York State Thruway in the Ulster County town of Plattekill on Tuesday, according to a statement by New York State Police.
Around 7:25pm on Tuesday, police say, two witnesses saw a 2002 Volkswagen sedan driving erratically on the Thruway, and then pulling off the road and into a wooded area. When police responded to the scene, they found 48-year-old Elmont resident Jon D. Sheppard unconscious in the car, suffering from apparently self-inflicted stab wounds.
Efforts to revive Sheppard were unsuccessful, and he was transported to St. Luke's Hospital in Newburgh where he was pronounced dead.
An autopsy was performed on Wednesday, and found that the cause of death was suicide by self-inflicted stab wounds.
Above: The Catskill Mountain Railroad's Kingston City Shuttle. Photo from the Catskill Mountain Railroad website.
An ongoing battle between rail and trail supporters intensified this week, when the chair of Ulster County's Railroad Advisory Committee (RAC) resigned in protest of "closed door meetings" held by the county to discuss the future of the railroad corridor.
