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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 27, 2012 - 2:56 pm
The wife of a man on trial for murder in Kalamazoo, Michigan has testified in court that her husband confessed to her that he committed the unsolved 1996 slaying of Demetrius Carter in a North Branch boarding house.
Besham Brian Sugrim, a former Sullivan... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 26, 2012 - 10:08 am
The Daily Star reports that 35-year-old Hobart resident Dante Darren Major has been arrested on felony drug trafficking charges, after a year-long investigation by Otsego County, state, and other local law enforcement dubbed "Operation Gold Rush."... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 23, 2012 - 10:15 pm
Above: Filmmaker Jessica Vecchione's cat Greykitty must be free.
Over in Greene County, former Brooklynite Larissa Phillips and her kids slaughter three roosters under a locust tree, "with every bit of the squeamish, precious, halting nonsense you’d... Read more
By Lillian Browne on Friday, Mar. 23, 2012 - 1:40 pm
Above: Ed Snow, who lost a village trustee election in Walton earlier this week, argues to the Delaware County Board of Elections that a vote count taken on Tuesday that declared him the winner of a village board seat should stand. Video by Lillian Browne... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 23, 2012 - 1:14 pm
Photos by Jack McShane.
March is the time for putting up bluebird nest boxes, and cleaning out old ones. Watershed Post reader Jack McShane caught these little field mice red-handed -- er, red-pawed -- taking over a bluebird box on his property in Andes.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 23, 2012 - 12:09 pm
A Long Island man was arrested this week on charges that he assaulted a woman at his Wawarsing hunting camp and threatened her with a shotgun. State police announced the arrest of 52-year-old Oceanside resident Tracy Vierra on Thursday, March 22:
The New... Read more
By wateradmin on Thursday, Mar. 22, 2012 - 12:42 pm
A close neighbor died very recently. That is a simple, but profoundly sad, statement of fact. Those few words are difficult to write when they concern someone you knew, cared about and greatly respected.
Elizabeth and Patrick Kern penned something... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 22, 2012 - 10:09 am
Photo from the Halls Mills Covered Bridge blog. Reproduced by permission.
The Halls Mills Bridge in Neversink was luckier than the Old Blenheim Bridge over the Schoharie Creek -- it survived Irene's ravages mostly intact.
But the stone pier that supports... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 21, 2012 - 8:43 pm
Two suspects have been arrested in the investigation of a burglary of a West Shokan home on March 17, in which the victim was strangled and sustained minor injuries.
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office announced that a 29-year-old homeless woman, Kristen D... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 19, 2012 - 8:25 am
A small plane went down near Jennings Road in New Baltimore on Sunday, March 18, leaving its solo pilot with minor injuries, several news outlets are reporting.
The Daily Mail has an account of the crash, and a photo of the crashed plane -- a 2/3-scale... Read more
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