Schoharie County Sheriff's Office
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 - 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
By Timothy Knight on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015 - 1:52 pm
Above: Schoharie County Sheriff Tony Desmond. Image via RawStory.
After months of unexpected twists and turns, the Schoharie County Board of Supervisors voted to adopt a 2016 county budget on Tuesday, Nov. 24 that hits the Schoharie County Sheriff’s... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015 - 2:50 pm
An elderly woman who wandered away from her home in the Schoharie County town of Esperance was found alive but hypothermic in a ditch on Columbus Day morning, according to Tony Desmond, the Schoharie County Sheriff.
The woman, who is 91 years old and has... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 21, 2015 - 5:13 pm
Posted by Schoharie Co. Fire Wire & News on Thursday, August 20, 2015
Above: Photos of the rescue, shared on the Schoharie County Fire Wire and News Facebook page.
Schoharie County's Search and Rescue Team rescued a camper who was trapped 100... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015 - 4:30 pm
A 74-year-old Schoharie man driving an ATV backed into the path of an oncoming car on Terrace Mountain Road in the town of Schoharie on Tuesday, Feb. 3, according to a press release from the Schoharie County Sheriff's Office.
The man, George K. Lawton,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 15, 2014 - 9:04 pm
A man was trapped by snow in a remote cabin in the Schoharie town of Broome for three days last week, according to a press release from the Schoharie County Sheriff's Office.
Sixty-year-old David Garrison lives in a cabin with no phone or electricity. On... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 12, 2014 - 2:15 pm
Above: Photo via Flickr user rabiem22.
A 28-year-old man wearing nothing but a pair of boots turned up on the porch of a residence in Summit after spending 14 hours naked outside on Sunday, Dec. 7, police say.
"You've never seen a guy shake that much in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014 - 5:18 pm
A 21-year-old SUNY Cobleskill student was killed in a car crash in the village of Sharon Springs on the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 19, according to a press release from the Schoharie County Sheriff's Office and the Albany Times-Union.
SUNY Cobleskill has... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014 - 12:23 pm
A man wearing a ski mask and a blue hoodie has the residents of Schoharie County nervous this week after he allegedly invaded a home on Route 30 early on Saturday, Nov. 1.
Social media lit up with gossip on Saturday as drivers along Route 30 saw police... Read more
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