Callicoon News

A Sullivan West committee and superintendent are recommending holding off on selling the Narrowsburg school for at least one year while the district studies other options.

Democrat Linda Babicz, the Callicoon town supervisor, lost her seat Tuesday night to Republican challenger Thomas Bose, according to unofficial returns.

Sullivan County Chamber of Commerce sponsors YEL! Fest Wednesday night at the Villa Roma Resort & Spa in Callicoon.

CALLICOON, Sullivan County - Two Connecticut men were arrested Friday after allegedly robbing a bank.

WAS THAT A FORMER PRESIDENT WHO ROBBED A BANK IN SULLIVAN COUNTY THIS MORNING, OR WAS IT SOMEONE WEARING A BILL CLINTON MASK? THE BILL CLINTON LOOK-A-LIKE PULLED AN EARLY HALLOWEEN TRICK THIS MORNING AT THE BANK OF AMERICA BRANCH ON RIVER ROAD IN CALLICOON.

State police have arrested two Connecticut men in a Friday morning robbery at a bank in Callicoon and have ruled out that a package left in the building contained a bomb.

A man wearing a 'Bill Clinton' mask robbed the Bank of America in Callicoon this morning, meeting staff as they opened the bank on Main Street and threatening that he had explosives.

At the first public hearing of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation's review of natural gas drilling, one speaker summed up the sentiment of many in Sullivan County, which is likely to see much of the drilling in the state.

The Sullivan County Sheriff's Office, in conjunction with the New York State DARE Officers Association, hosted the 2009 School Safety and DARE Conference recently at the Villa Roma Resort.

Troopers say a highly intoxicated woman was pulled over on Saturday after she was spotted driving the wrong way on Route 17.

Halloween Parade CALLICOON, NY - These two little munchkins missed Oz but ended up at the Children's Halloween Parade and Party at the Delaware Youth Center in Callicoon.

Catskill Regional Medical Center has received a state grant for $2.9 million to establish an integrated primary care and diagnostic imaging network for Sullivan County.

At least one person has no problem with district attorney candidate Glenn Kroll putting his campaign sticker on Krol vodka bottles and giving them out.

A $320,000 state grant obtained by Sullivan County on Tuesday puts it one step closer to building a regional red-meat processing plant in the Village of Liberty.

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.

A Connecticut driver asked the wrong guy for directions. State police say off-duty Trooper Yisroel Kaplan was outside a business in Callicoon in Sullivan County last weekend when a man driving a Mercedes Benz pulled into the parking lot to ask for directions.

Rebecca M. Baudendistel was nominated this spring by Afton Central School administration to attend the National Student Leadership Conference for a week in Washington, D.C. in August.

A Connecticut man is facing charges of driving drunk on Route 97 in Hankins. State police based at the Liberty barracks arrested Ronald D. Harrison, 41, after Harrison and a 47-year-old passenger were involved in an accident Saturday night.

Youngsville resident Bruce Bell breathed a sigh of relief on September 28 when the Callicoon Town Board voted to move forward with a plan to stabilize the bank of Callicoon Creek, which may be further eroded with the next serious storm that passes through.

The clock is ticking in terms of adequate time to protect towns against some impacts of natural gas extraction.