Otisville News

Gov. David Paterson visited Kingston Monday to announce a nearly $500,000 grant to facilitate cooperation between seven municipal highway departments in Ulster County.

There was no real doubt today about the 150-year sentence Judge Daryl Chin imposed today on Bernie Madoff.

U.S. marshals seized Bernard Madoff 's $7 million Manhattan penthouse apartment following a federal judge's order that the Upper East Side residence be forfeited by the convicted con man.

LBN: GLOOMY U.S. CONSUMERS CLIP HOUSING RECOVERY HOPES U.S. consumer confidence took an unexpectedly steep slide in June, figures released on Tuesday showed, suggesting the 18-month-long recession had yet to loosen its grip on the economy.

Bernie Madoff won't be headed to "Club Fed." The convicted Ponzi-schemer's 150-year sentence excludes him from the cushy minimum-security "work-camp" facilities where white-collar criminals often land.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons has not decided where Madoff, who orchestrated a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of billions of dollars, will serve his 150-year sentence.

Ruth visits Bernie in prison, July 1. Photo: Getty Images Bernie Madoff will appear in court downtown Monday morning, where he will read an apology, hear statements from eight very angry victims, be photographed from a bad angle many times, and ultimately be handed a prison sentence from judge Denny Chin that could last anywhere from 10 to 150 ...

The National Weather Service in has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for northern Orange County until 400 pm.

Police arrested an Otisville man Wednesday morning in connection with a rash of tire slashings in the Metro-North parking lots at the Port Jervis and Otisville stations.

The Mount Hope Historical Society will hold a flea market at the Eleazer Harding Farm, 183 Old Mountain Road, from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. June 20, rain or shine.

A fire gutted a raised ranch house near the Orange County border Monday morning.

Lightning hit electrical equipment at the Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville at 12:10 a.m. Friday, starting a small electrical fire.

Lightning hit electrical equipment at the Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville at 12:10 a.m. Friday, starting a small electrical fire.

The Federal Correctional Institution at Otisville is understaffed, underfunded and overpopulated, Sen.

One of the region's largest medical practices is reporting an uptick in flu cases, although whether swine flu is the culprit for these generally mild illnesses may never be known.

The Ashokan Center is honoring Memorial Day and Lincoln's 200th birthday with "Ashokan Civil War Days" starting at 10 a.m. at Ashokan Center, Beaverkill Road in Shokan.

Sitting in front of a gleaming Apple computer monitor, seven-year-old Michael Jankowski, a first-grader at Otisville Elementary School, wants to be a truck driver when he grows up.

The Minisink Valley Kiwanis held a charter night May 11 for a Kiwanis K-Kids club at the Otisville Elementary School.

The Mount Hope Historical Society will hold opening day festivities from 12-3:30 p.m. Sunday at the Eleazer Harding farm, 183 Old Mountain Road in Otisville, rain or shine.

If you've never read the 23 lines of fine print on the small signs at the entrance to Metro-North train stations, here's some of what you've missed: "Park at your own risk." And how.