Sullivan County News

It is a pleasure to see a paper that reports the news instead of making the news.

It sure seems like the recent appeals court decision affirming the right of New York towns to ban fracking is a huge victory for those opposed to the natural gas extraction method of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

He also says that plans to enhance the Upper Delaware, with hundreds of thousands of dollars of federal grant dollars, are misunderstood.

The state may allow Sullivan County to replace two leaking showers at the Adult Care Center using grant money earmarked for the center's renovation - ending a dilemma in which an unbudgeted and unexpected $200,000 expense threatened to delay a major makeover.

Among the 150 movies and shorts to be shown in the Hoboken International Film Festival this year is one filmed in Sullivan County by a family production company.

A Sullivan County jury convicted Monticello resident Kariem McCline on a felony charge Friday but two jurors afterwards said they didn't believe that McCline was guilty and were "pressured" in the jury room to make the decision.

Featured in todays Record Newswatch - Newburgh police investigate a fatal stabbing Friday afternoon that occurred near the citys Downing Park; Sullivan County Sheriff Michael Schiff says his departments patrols are threatoned by the loss of overtime funding and State Police identify the body discovered earlier this month in the Delaware River near ... (more)

Authorities have identified the man found floating in the middle of the Delaware River on the Pennsylvania-New York border earlier this month.

The Alzheimer's Association and the Caregiver Resource Center of Sullivan County will present Pain Assessment and Management for Individual's with Dementia, sharing information and problem-solving to assess and manage pain when an individual is coping with dementia.

That's what scores of you said when I again asked for suggestions to clean up our filthy roadsides, which seem to be growing a rainbow-like array of plastic bags, empty cans and broken bottles faster than blooming flowers.

Sheriff Mike Schiff told Sullivan County legislators Thursday he can't run enough patrols to address a wave of burglaries and asked that $100,000 in overtime be restored to his budget.

Featured in todays Record Newswatch - a late morning fire rips through a Main street residence in the Village of Chester; Democrat Michael Isgur announces his candidacy for Orange County District Attorney and a Sullivan County jury fails again to reach a verdict in a Monticello corruption case.

Judge Frank LaBuda, after the lunch break, ordered the courtroom door locked for a closed hearing to question one juror about the deliberations.

Forty years ago, the Sullivan County Retired Senior Volunteer Program began with three volunteers performing 10 hours of service.

There's no doubt Ulster County's unionized construction workers stand behind a proposed casino at the site of the old Nevele Grande resort.

Tri-Valley School District is asking voters to let it spend $5.7 million on its track, parking lots and physical plant.

A Monticello man has been charged with felonies in an alleged welfare scam in Sullivan County.

Through the years, those with an itch for all things firefighting have gone by different names: "Fire-fans." "Sparkies." "Fire buffs." The name "buff," according to the 1967 book "Pictorial History of Firefighting" by Robert W. Masters, came from the "hose-and-wagon days" when enthusiasts would huddle on icy street corners for hours under buffalo ... (more)

On Saturday, Bivins mingled among hundreds of people who had participated in the second annual Allyson Whitney 5K Walk/Run at Kauneonga Lake.

These state Health Department inspection records reflect reports from Jan. 1, 2007, through April 2009 and include Sullivan County restaurants, bars and summer camps.