Grahamsville News

Roughly 50 small-town folks crowded into the Napanoch fire hall to get answers they'd been waiting on for months, years, as far back as some memories could reach.

The 17th annual Rhulen Rock Hill Run & Ramble will be held Saturday to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of America, and the R4 Patient Fund.

The Tri-Valley Lions held their annual Journey for Sight walk May 2 at the Grahamsville Fairgrounds, concurrent with Tag Day in Grahamsville and Neversink.

Vern Lindquist of Grahamsville releases his kite Saturday during the 18th annual Kite Festival at Sullivan County Community College in Loch Sheldrake.

A brush fire devoured 40 acres of woods and destroyed a shed and outhouse Saturday in Grahamsville.

Local firefighters scrambled Saturday to put out brush fires. About 70 firefighters from eight companies spent most of the afternoon squashing a brush fire near Spring Glen Road in Mountaindale.

The New York City Department of Environmental Protection is hiring summer interns to work in its upstate Bureau of Water Supply facilities.

A few years ago, those little open electric cars were all the rage with our local municipalities.

The economic meltdown has claimed a red, white and-blue victim here. For the first time in decades, the city won't be footing the bill for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display.

Naturalist Betty Boomer knows what creatures are under the ice because she takes her trusty nets and pokes around in the melted edges of local ponds to find out firsthand.

There are eight stops on the maple syrup making tour on Saturday in Sullivan County.

Monticello police Chief Doug Solomon is being careful not to get wrapped up in the political turmoil that has almost ground Monticello village business to an argument-laden halt.

The Time and the Valleys Museum will sponsor a self-guided tour of local maple syrup operations on March 21 as part of New York State Maple Weekend.

Call this one the recession special - or we shall overcome. My wife and I have wanted to replace the tile around our kitchen sink for five years.

COOPERSTOWN _ In Otsego County Court on Friday before Judge Brian Burns, Kayshawn Simon, 21, of Brooklyn, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, cocaine.

In November, the state announced it would save $3.4 million by shutting down farms at 12 of its prisons, including operations at Wallkill, Sullivan and Eastern correctional facilities.

For every 100 local residents who were hungry last year, nearly 140 need help with food today.

Alan VanKleeck woke up at 5 a.m. on Saturday, his day off, and drove from his home in Grahamsville to Newburgh to work at an outdoor construction site on a frigidly cold day.