Sullivan County
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010 - 9:19 am
New York State Police report that they've arrested two sets of burglars that were caught in the act of robbing homes in the town of Mamakating on Sunday and yesterday. The first pair, 26-year-old Erin M. Peters and 35-year-old Joseph Francis Feuerstack... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010 - 7:26 pm
In Roscoe tomorrow: Flyfishers, filmmakers, and other folks are meeting at Roscoe Central School to watch Gasland and talk about fracking. The event starts at noon, and is open to the public. From an announcement posted on our local-business news channel... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 - 2:37 pm
So says the National Weather Service, which has issued a flood watch for much of New York State, including Sullivan, Delaware, and Otsego counties. The NWS office in Binghamton had special warnings for the Catskills, and anyone living near the West Branch... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010 - 5:36 pm
Detail of this week's "Potshots" cartoon, by Gary Mayer.
As anticipated last week, Governor David Paterson announced today that he has struck a deal with the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans to build a gaming resort in the hamlet of Bridgeville in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010 - 5:58 pm
Above and below: Sullivan County Sheriff's Deputies and State Police troopers pull over a few of the scores of high-performance cars that ripped through the speed limit this afternoon. Photo provided by NY State Police.
This afternoon, local law... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 - 9:44 am
Three men who decided to harvest deer in Roscoe a week early were arrested by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation on Wednesday. 26-year-old Steve Rosati, 27-year-old Vincent J. Lopicolo and 27-year-old Christopher Abrahamsen have been... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 - 10:54 am
The former site of the Chestnut Woods restaurant in Grahamsville. Could the hamlet get a proper restaurant again? Depends on whether Neversink stays dry, its owner says.
It's been 75 years since a legal libation was sold in the Sullivan County town of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010 - 10:45 am
Yesterday, the New York Times ran an analysis of how natural gas is becoming the dominant issue in the election battle between Democratic congressional incumbent Maurice Hinchey and his Republican (and pro-gas-drilling) challenger George Phillips. (The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 - 1:28 pm
Today, Adam Bosch over at the Times Herald-Record took a look at last-minute contributions to various local candidates running in Tuesday's election. He found that much of the eleventh-hour money is from gas-drilling companies.
The numbers show that... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010 - 1:41 pm
The state police are reporting an arrest in an unlikely place: a Zen monastery in Sullivan County.
According to the press release, reprinted in full below, a South Korean man named Min Jae Hwang allegedly assaulted a man and a woman on Saturday at the... Read more
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