UPDATE: Sullivan County Legislature Chair Nadia Rajsz and Town of Fallsburg Supervisor Michael Bensimon jointly issued the following statement July 19: “We are not at all happy about New York State’s decision…
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NY Attorney General Investigates Fatal Police Shooting in Sullivan County
The New York Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigation (OSI) has opened an investigation into the death of Albert Melendez, Jr., who died on July 16, 2024 following an encounter with members…
NY FOCUS: How Upstate Retirees Fought Privatized Health Care And Won
This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. NEW YORK STATE · July 9, 2024 How Upstate…
Bethel, Home of Woodstock, Embraces Green Initiatives
The Town of Bethel, home of The Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969, has been recertified as a “Bronze-standard Climate-Smart Community” by the Department of Environmental Conservation as part of New York…
Extreme Heat Impacting Some NYS Crops
This summer’s extreme heat may prove to be a difficulty for some New York crops. Cornell University Professor of Horticulture Steve Reiners said some plants may stop growing. “Once we start seeing…
Young Child Dies in Vehicle at Monticello’s Sleepy Hollow Apartment Complex
A 2-year-old child was found in cardiac arrest inside a vehicle outside Building #14 of the Sleepy Hollow Apartment Complex on Terri Lane on Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Monticello Police, Monticello Firefighters,…
Joe Johnson Talks Science: Mammoths, Cave Paintings, and “Hot Jupiter”
Joe Johnson is a retired Port Jervis science teacher and Radio Catskill volunteer and he regularly brings us science stories that have caught his eye. This week Johnson discussed a woolly mammoth…
Wildfire Prevention with Forest Ranger Lieutenant Timothy “TJ” Carpenter
According to the “National Interagency Coordination Center Wildland Fire Summary and Statistics Annual Report 2023,” New York experienced a total of 150 wildfires in 2023, burning 1,383 acres. Wildfires, often referred to…
Local Leaders React to Assassination Attempt on Former President Trump at Pennsylvania Rally
Former President Donald Trump was injured in an assassination attempt Saturday when a gunman opened fire at a rally approximately 30 miles north of Pittsburgh. During the incident, one person at the…