Sullivan County News

MONTICELLO The Sullivan County Legislature is developing a whistleblower law, crafted after Ulster County's, as a means of protecting county workers should they come forward with information of wrongdoing at the workplace.

Want to buy one of the last great Catskill resorts? The bidding starts at $25 million.

An upstate New York man who hid his dead 98-year-old mother in a freezer and cashed her Social Security checks has been sentenced to six months in jail.

The Sullivan County Legislature put off a vote on the user fee for the solid waste management system today until next Tuesday in order to discuss issues that came up during a public comment forum.

Schiff: "... a battle you continually fight" LIBERTY Sullivan County Sheriff Michael Schiff won a second four-year term as the county's top law enforcement official.

NARROWSBURG State Police are looking for a Staten Island woman who was last seen in Narrowsburg on Wednesday, October 28 at about 10p.m. Gail Greico-Weishoff's pocketbook and other particles were found near Second Avenue indicating she may have been at the Delaware River's edge at some point.

Democrat Linda Babicz, the Callicoon town supervisor, lost her seat Tuesday night to Republican challenger Thomas Bose, according to unofficial returns.

The Sullivan County Sheriff's Office, in conjunction with the New York State DARE Officers Association, hosted the 2009 School Safety and DARE Conference recently at the Villa Roma Resort.

Sullivan County Board of Cooperative Educational Services has a new interim superintendent - and it's the longtime Ulster County BOCES superintendent.

The Sullivan County Human Rights Commission and the local chapter of the NAACP are sponsoring a Meet the Candidates night for those seeking office of county sheriff, county district attorney and county treasurer.

CALLICOON, Sullivan County - Two Connecticut men were arrested Friday after allegedly robbing a bank.

WAS THAT A FORMER PRESIDENT WHO ROBBED A BANK IN SULLIVAN COUNTY THIS MORNING, OR WAS IT SOMEONE WEARING A BILL CLINTON MASK? THE BILL CLINTON LOOK-A-LIKE PULLED AN EARLY HALLOWEEN TRICK THIS MORNING AT THE BANK OF AMERICA BRANCH ON RIVER ROAD IN CALLICOON.

The Sullivan County Sheriff's Office will be the first police agency any place to outfit its patrol cars with a new line of bulletproof panels manufactured in Kingston.

A Bloods gang member admitted Wednesday that he and a gang leader pistol-whipped a man and stole his jewelry in a June 27 robbery in Monticello.

Charly Ann Skala died last November after she was hit by a bullet that ripped through the wall of her grandparents' mobile home in Swan Lake, in Sullivan County.

A New York City hunter who accidentally shot a 16-month-old girl to death in the Catskills has been sentenced to two to eight years in prison.

One of the largest natural gas companies has withdrawn its application to take millions of gallons of water from the Upper Delaware River.

Judith Kaye is the kind of person former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt would have liked and admired.

Catskill Regional Medical Center has received a state grant for $2.9 million to establish an integrated primary care and diagnostic imaging network for Sullivan County.

As Sullivan County faces budget cuts and layoffs, seniors - one of the county's most vulnerable groups - are hoping to hold on to their services.