Bethel News

MONTICELLO The towns of Bethel, Liberty, Callicoon and Delaware are seeking public comment on their recently drafted Farmland Protection Plans.

He calls the shells that whistled over his head in the European night "whispering death." They were a symbol of something bigger than anything the kid from Sullivan County could imagine some 65 years ago.

A much-ballyhooed registration drive from Hasidic groups in the Town of Bethel might have spurred a surge in absentee ballots, but is not expected to change the outcome of Tuesday's races.

Soprano Kate Hurney and pianist Katherine Addleman, assisted by Carolyn Steinberg on flute, will commemorate the anniversaries of Joseph Haydn and Felix Mendelssohn in a concert titled 'They Went to London,' at the Tusten Theatre, 210 Bridge Street, on Saturday, November 7 at 8:00 p.m. The event is presented by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance .

Quartetto Poesia y Clave will perform a free show at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Events Gallery at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

Jimi Hendrix performing at Woodstock on Aug. 18, 1969. Well, I came upon a child of God He was walking along the road And I asked him, Tell me, where are you going? This he told me.

Sullivan County Legislator Dave Sager and a group he founded formally challenged on Thursday 150 voter registrations of primarily Hasidic seasonal residents in the Town of Bethel.

Last week saw the PBS premiere of Latin Music USA , the four-hour documentary created by WGBH and the BBC about "American" music in the broadest sense of the word.

One of the many thorny issues surrounding the Toronto Reservoir is well on the way to being settled.

It was the best of times and the worst of times. Jack and Bobby Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King were dead, martyred by assassinations.

Sullivan County is considering a proposal to change the way it funds trash disposal.

The chairwomen of the Republican, Democratic and Conservative parties were in attendance, which is not a common occurrence in local politics, especially with important local elections just weeks away.

Sullivan County is getting ready for an anticipated increase in applications for federal heating assistance this winter, as officials work to avoid the fiasco of 2007 that left more than 1,200 people without help because their applications went unprocessed.

The weather, especially the sky in its many moods, has attracted artists for centuries.

Two teenage boys living at the Abbott House, a residential home for boys in Bethel, have been charged with assault following a fight in which one youth stabbed the other.

Taking Woodstock Directed by: Ang Lee Starring: Demetri Martin , Henry Goodman , Imelda Staunton , Emile Hirsch , Eugene Levy , Mamie Gummer , Jonathan Groff ; Liev Schreiber Running time: 110 minutes Taiwan release: Today Since Ice Storm in 1995, Taiwan-born director Ang Lee has made a number of forays in Americana.

NEW YORK, New York - The pilot hailed as the hero of the Miracle on the Hudson returns to the cockpit today in New York.

Lawmaker David Sager is one of the primary forces behind a new grassroots group called Voters for Election Integrity .

The Harvest Festival at Bethel Woods continues Sunday with "A Chili Day in October," a free chili tasting of recipes prepared by the Monticello Fire Department, Sullivan County Sheriff's Office and Sullivan County Federation for the Homeless and the staff at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

The scarecrows that are on display for the Harvest Festival at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts show that these days, scarecrows are often the product of imagination and whimsy, and not necessarily an important agricultural tool.