Shandaken News

A Delaware County man has been charged with raping an underage girl in the Town of Shandaken, state police said.

Prefacing his announcement by rebuking the state Senate for its month-long standstill, on Monday Gov.

Shandaken town police Saturday arrested a Big Indian man on charges he hit a woman several times with a wooden bar stool in front of their 4-year-old daughter.

Four Pine Hill residents were arrested earlier this week allegedly for a string of burglaries in the Shandaken hamlet of Pine Hills and the Big Indian area, Shandaken police reported Friday evening.

Kiki Randolph, previously known by the last names of Godwin and Minervini before reverting to her maiden name, is sifting through papers in the classic Woodstock home she's occupied, on and off, since moving there at the age of three in 1930.

"Instead of following sports, I follow religion. Every day, I read the paper to see who's winning: the Christians or the Muslims." - Samuel P. Huntington Did you see the cloud shaped like a Mahjong coin over Pine Hill last Tuesday? A Letter Dear Monsignor Sparrow: I try to drink as little soda as possible, to leave a small carbonated footprint.

Stephen Shepherd, accused of murdering his wife Constance in their Town of Tonawanda home, faced a town judge for the last time Thursday.

SHANDAKEN - Town of Shandaken police have arrested a 31-year-old homeless man for allegedly stealing from American Legion Post 950 in Phoenicia, police said.

Shepherd's wife, 42-year-old Constance Shepherd, was discovered dead Wednesday inside the couple's home on Sunset Terrace in the Town of Tonawanda.

Stephen Shepherd, 58, was arraigned in Town of Tonawanda court late, Friday afternoon.

A man wanted in connection with the slaying of his wife in Erie County was picked up Thursday by Shandaken police.

The husband of a Town of Tonawanda woman whose body was found in the couple's home Wednesday morning was detained for questioning this morning in the Catskill region of New York state, Town of Tonawanda police said.

Middletown officials broke ground Feb. 16 on a major expansion and upgrade of the city's 75-year-old sewage treatment plant, fully prepared then to borrow the $27.8 million needed to pay for the work.

Though all four women who filed a federal complaint against Ulster County earlier this week shared the same concerns their stories of mistreatment at the Ulster County Jail were all unique.

Governor David Paterson Friday announced he has certified an additional $6.1 million for transportation projects in the Hudson Valley through the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act .

Another of the state's premier trout streams now contains an invasive algae with the unappealing nickname of "rock snot," according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

KINGSTON - A 45-year-old Ulster County man faces a state prison sentence for causing the death of a passenger who was riding in his car last year when he was involved in an alcohol-related crash.

A Shandaken man pleaded guilty Monday in Ulster County Court to causing the death of one man and severe injuries to a second in a drunken-driving collision last year.

Ulster County and seven Catskill watershed municipalities will use $50,000 in federal funding to protect the area's resources.

In September 2008, Cornell Cooperative Extension Ulster County's Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program signed a new contract with DEP which expanded the number of staff and created a new partnership with Ulster County Soil and Water District.