Two cars collided head-on on Route 299 in New Paltz around 11pm on Saturday night, when a Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by 45-year-old Highland resident Jeffrey Davis left its lane and drifted into oncoming traffic.

The Ulster County Sheriff's Office reported the incident in a press release today. Sheriff's deputies report that Davis suffered from a medical condition that caused him to lose control of the car.

The other car, a Land Rover, was driven by Roberto Gottardello, a local writer who lives in Shokan, and who was a participant in last week's Woodstock Writer's Festival.

Each vehicle had a passenger. Both drivers and the two passengers (who were not named in the release) were transported to St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie for their injuries. 

Heavy rains forecast across much of the region for tonight and tomorrow morning mean a flood watch for the eastern Catskills, as well as western New England.

An alert from the National Weather Service warns that Greene, Ulster and Schoharie County could see flooding tonight, especially on east-facing slopes:

Donated children's shoes at the CARE for New York State warehouse in Cobleskill. Photo from CARE's Facebook page; reproduced by permission.

A decade ago, the Guilford Mills textile plant in Cobleskill hummed with the sound of workers making fabric and lace.

Now, it's bustling with another kind of activity: The county-owned building has been converted into a huge warehouse offering free supplies to flood victims. The warehouse, run by Community Area Resource Efforts (CARE) for New York State, stocks a vast array of donated goods, from daily needs like toothbrushes and shampoo to big-ticket items like ovens and sofas.

Outside of tabloids like the New York Post -- which once ran the famous headline "Headless body found in topless bar" -- news headlines about crime, especially in small-town papers, are usually pretty boilerplate.

But a couple of truly despicable burglaries at a volunteer-run flood recovery program in Schoharie clearly pushed a few buttons at the Times Journal. This week's paper has a story: "Lowlifes break into Schoharie Recovery."

(Should that be "lowlives"? Merriam-Webster says it can go either way. The AP Style Guide is silent on the matter.)

For months, the Times Journal reports, Schoharie Recovery kept expensive tools in a shed behind the Schoharie Reformed Church without any problems, despite hundreds of volunteers coming and going. But in recent weeks, about $1000 worth of newly-bought tools went missing.