Crime
By Timothy Knight on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017 - 5:48 pm
A national debate on how to respond to bigotry and hate speech has suddenly become a pressing local issue in Schoharie County, after the appearance of swastikas throughout the tiny village of Esperance on New Year's Day.
State police arrested a 13-year-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Sep. 26, 2016 - 5:26 pm
A recent series of bomb threats in Ulster County continued on Monday, Sept. 26 when a 35-year-old Kingston woman was arrested for allegedly planting four notes containing bomb threats in the Shandaken business where she worked, according to a press... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 15, 2016 - 10:45 pm
A bomb threat that was phoned in to the Woodstock Golf Club around 5:50 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 15 prompted an evacuation and road closures in the Ulster County town of Woodstock, according to a press release from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office.
Roads... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Tuesday, Jul. 12, 2016 - 7:35 pm
State police say that a Preston Hollow man died in a one-vehicle crash on Friday, July 8 in the Schoharie County town of Blenheim.
According to Trooper Mark J. Cepiel, the public information officer at Troop G headquarters in Latham, troopers were... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 12, 2016 - 7:03 pm
A four-year-old boy from Brooklyn drowned on Sunday, July 10 in a partially-filled swimming pool at a summer bungalow colony in the Sullivan County town of Bethel, local newspapers report.
The child, whose name has been alternatively reported as Shimon... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 12, 2016 - 6:02 pm
One person drowned, another was killed when an SUV flipped over and a third was found riding in a car with a gunshot wound in a series of odd incidents in Greene County over the weekend, according to media reports.
Only sketchy details are available from... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 12, 2016 - 5:40 pm
A 49-year-old man has died of injuries sustained in a crash with a deer that happened on Wednesday, July 6 in the Delaware County town of Roxbury, according to the Daily Star, the Catskill Mountain News and the Associated Press.
The Catskill Mountain News... Read more
By Timothy Knight on Wednesday, Jul. 6, 2016 - 12:46 pm
Above: Members of the Middleburgh Fire Department's water rescue team move Mike Silocott, a 60-year-old Troy man, across the Schoharie Creek after he fell 15 feet off of a cliff into the water on Sunday, July 3. The photo was originally posted on the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 20, 2016 - 1:03 pm
A man died on Thursday, June 16 in the Sullivan County town of Bethel when a two-story apartment building caught fire, according to the New York State Police.
The fire, which fully engulfed a building located at 1240 Route 17B, possibly began in a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 20, 2016 - 10:52 am
The New York State Police are investigating the death of a 31-year-old Middleburgh man who died after being struck by a Schoharie County Sheriff's Office patrol car on Friday, June 17 while fleeing from the deputy on an unregistered dirt-bike motorcycle.... Read more
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