Saugerties News

Featured in todays Record Newswatch - A Middletown High School student is killed in a car crash on the way to a senior prom in Wappingers Falls; a Saugerties woman is arrested for stealing more than 180 thousand dollars while employed as comptroller of a Town of Ulster business and fallen comrades are remembered during a memorial service at State ... (more)

A Saugerties woman is facing 11 felonies for embezzling more than $50,000 from an Ulster business, state police say.

"Defying the Laws of Gravity With Henry the Juggler" - A "Super Saturday" event at the Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St., Kingston, 10:30 a.m. May 18.

The U.S. Coast Guard and Ulster County Sheriff's Office K-9 teams boarded a boat on Esopus Creek and found marijuana concealed in one of the boat's storage compartments, according to the Ulster County Sheriff's Office.

A 20-year-old Saugerties man was injured Monday morning when the car he was driving caromed off a guard rail along Route 209 where it collided with a school bus.

If Anthony Mancinelli keeps this up, he might be in line for another kudo from the folks at the Guinness World Records book.

St. Paul's in New Brighton was one of the first Catholic schools ordered closed by the Archdiocese of New York in 2006.

Police on Friday recovered the body of a pilot whose plane crashed in the Hudson River north of Saugerties, identifying him as Michael Braunstein, 72, of Copake.

A twin-engine airplane crashed and sunk into the Hudson River south of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge Thursday afternoon, leaving floating debris and a search for survivors in its wake.

Salt Point: Anthony Cali was named to the fall 2012 dean's list at Marist College in Poughkeepsie.

One local sculptor has the vision of connecting all the communities in Ulster County, joining them together with his sculpture, Love Knot.

Richie Havens and Sam Waymon were close friends. The 72 year old Havens, a folk singer and guitarist best known as the legendary opening act at Woodstock, suffered a fatal heart attack on April 21.

Saugerties artist Willy Ze'ev Neumann's identical twin "Love Knot" sculptures, intended to symbolize the bond between the Saugerties and Woodstock communities, will be officially installed in Saugerties at 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 4 at the corner of Main and Market streets and in Woodstock at 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 11 on the lawn of Marie's Bazaar, ... (more)

Ancramdale: Baccaro, Jason and Mellissa, a son, April 7, at Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck.

Ulster authorities are warning residents of a common blacktopping scam that yielded one arrest last week.

The bed linens were luxurious. The waterfall view, beautiful. The food, sumptuous.

Come summer, some, instead of taking a weekly break, spend the entire season away, though still within easy striking distance of their primary abode.

Scores of local victims of a disease they say makes them so weak they can't drive, think clearly or make tea without laying down are being denied insurance payments for treatment of that disease.

Saugerties, N.Y.: When Gov. Cuomo in 2012 proposed new commercial casinos, he said they would need regulation.

Police say a crew led by William Eaton, 27, of New Hampshire, worked on several residential driveways around Route 9W and then attempted to double or triple the agreed-upon price.