Cochecton News

The Tusten Historical Society is celebrating Archives Month with an open house at 2 p.m. Sunday at Western Sullivan Public Library's Tusten-Cochecton Branch, 198 Bridge St., Narrowsburg.

The Sullivan County Long Beards took 19 young members of Extreme Jakes for a full day of pheasant hunting at Catskill Pheasantry in Long Eddy.

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

Delaware River towns had better get ready for gas drilling, concludes a new study.

Can you imagine traveling with a newborn, a toddler, a cow and a husband without a car, disposable diapers or ready-made formula? Rebecca Pickering did just that in 1782 when she left rented rooms at Mrs.

A Cochecton woman died Saturday after her minivan struck a tree in the Town of Tusten.

Three people suffered serious injuries when an SUV and a minivan collided on Route 17B in the Town of Cochecton Thursday afternoon, the Sullivan County Sheriff's Department said.

Three people suffered serious injuries Thursday afternoon when a sport utility vehicle and a minivan collided on Route 17B in the Town of Cochecton, the Sullivan County sheriff's Office said.

Workers are expected to begin ripping up and replacing a mile of pavement on Route 302 on Wednesday in the first road construction project in the region to be funded with federal stimulus money.

COCHECTON Four students, ages seven to 17 and a bus aide sustained minor injuries when a small school bus ran off the pavement on Route 17B in the Town of Cochecton between Burr and Westervelt roads Tuesday morning.

Sullivan County lawmakers voted to send a message to Albany saying, 'Don't touch our money.' The concern is that Governor David Paterson will change the way the state's off-track betting system is operated in an attempt to bail out OTB in New York City and elsewhere.

At 7:37 a.m. there were reports of a school bus accident along Route 17B and Burr Road in the Town of Cochecton.

A severe thunderstorm warning is in effect for Sullivan County until 4 p.m. today.

What's an equivalent single axle load? By FRITZ MAYER KAUNEONGA LAKE, NY - If a town wants to protect its roads against, say, hundreds or thousands of trucks related to gas drilling, officials must know first how many miles of roads the town has, and what the roads are made of.

A severe thunderstorm warning is in effect for Sullivan County until 4 p.m. today.

The New York-Pennsylvania Joint Interstate Bridge Commission approved capital construction and maintenance plans for 10 Upper Delaware River bridges at its annual meeting held May 28 at Pennsylvania Department of Transportation District 4-0 headquarters in Dunmore.

A Jeffersonville businessman is being held in Sullivan County Jail, in lieu of $100,000 bail, accused of using a gun to threaten a family living on one of his properties.