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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 - 9:44 am
41-year-old Adriano Pacheco of Portugal died Saturday while trying to swim across the Delaware River near Cochecton with a friend, who survived and was treated at a local hospital. The Times Herald-Record has the details.
Just last week, an eighteen-year-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 28, 2011 - 11:56 am
Photo of the Upper Delaware River. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
A Brooklyn teenager (whose name is still being withheld) is missing and presumed drowned after attempting to swim across the Delaware River near Narrowsburg yesterday evening.
The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 18, 2011 - 8:48 am
A report of a child drowning in the Rondout Creek in Napanoch had police, fire, and medical emergency responders scrambling to reach the scene in time -- but turned out to be a false alarm.
The 13-year-old boy who called in the report will be referred to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 9, 2011 - 8:40 am
To add to the recent spate of drownings in the Catskills region, Ulster County police are reporting that a man drowned last night in the Rondout Creek in High Falls, according to the Daily Freeman and the Times Herald-Record:
The Ulster County Sheriff's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 2, 2011 - 11:33 am
Photo of the Upper Delaware River at Hawk's Nest, near the spot where a rafter drowned on Saturday. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Three people drowned in local waterways over the Memorial Day weekend.
On Monday, two fishermen lost their footing in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010 - 2:46 pm
We were hoping yesterday's widespread flooding didn't claim any lives, but it seems that's not the case.
A body of a woman was found around noon today in the Neversink reservoir, said Zone Sergeant James Rafferty out of the State Police barracks in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 24, 2010 - 10:14 am
The Shawangunk Journal interviewed the family of Ryan Panchak, the 29-year-old who drowned in the Esopus while fishing a week ago. Panchak was the father of a one-year-old son:
Panchak was a 1999 graduate of Kingston High School and had a baby son, Jacob... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 21, 2010 - 11:21 am
A 29-year-old named Ryan Panchak was found dead in the waters of the Esopus Creek on Friday in the Ulster County town of Marbletown, and yesterday, the State Police announced that the cause of his death was drowning. But, according to the press release,... Read more
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