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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 9, 2015 - 1:48 pm
The place where 14-year-old Jordyn Engler drowned on the Esopus Creek on Saturday, Sept. 5 was near a notorious local river hazard. But that didn’t stop a Catskills tubing company from dropping her off at an abandoned tubing launch nearby.
The hazard, a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Sep. 6, 2015 - 2:45 pm
A 20-year-old man from Stamford died in the early morning hours of Friday, Sept. 4 after being accidentally pinned by his car on the side of the road in the Delaware County town of Davenport, police say.
Travis J. Barra was found dead underneath his 1996... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, May. 19, 2015 - 4:10 pm
Posted by Scott Trueblood on Thursday, March 26, 2015
Above: A photo of Scott Trueblood hang gliding, posted on his Facebook account.
A hang glider with a newly minted pilot's license died after crashing into a mountain in the Ulster County town... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Apr. 27, 2015 - 10:43 am
An 11-year-old DeLancey boy who was injured in an ATV crash in Hamden last week has died, according to the Delaware County Sheriff's Office and an obituary issued by the family.
Left: Nicholas J. Dungan. Photo via his obituary at the Courtney Funeral Home... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2015 - 12:13 pm
Above: The Margaretville Motel, which was slated to receive $1.3 million from New York State after being developed into a Best Western hotel. Plans for the project are now uncertain. Photo by Julia Reischel.
Peter Molnar, a prominent local businessman who... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 16, 2015 - 4:04 pm
A 56-year-old woman riding on a float in a St. Patrick's Day parade in the Sullivan County hamlet of Rock Hill was killed on Saturday, March 14 after falling off and being run over by a trailer towing a backhoe, according to the New York State Police and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015 - 10:06 am
Two Delaware County men were found dead on Wednesday, Feb. 25 -- one on his property where he had been cutting a tree for firewood, and the other a few blocks from his home after he was reported missing.
Seventy-year-old Ralph Hunt was attempting to cut... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015 - 3:52 pm
A toddler vacationing at a camp in Loch Sheldrake reportedly drowned in a bathtub the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 20, according to multiple Sullivan County news outlets.
A sergeant answering the phone at the Fallsburg Police Department said that no one was... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015 - 11:21 am
Travis James Roloson was heading home to celebrate his birthday on Monday when his red 1997 Honda CRV drifted off the road and into a tree, killing him instantly, police and his family say.
Roloson, who turned 31 on Jan. 5, was driving north on East River... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 29, 2014 - 6:02 pm
Above: A chair lift at Hunter Mountain in December 2014. Photo by Schezar, via Flickr.
A Brooklyn woman died after falling 25 feet from a chair lift at the Hunter Mountain ski resort in Greene County on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 28, according to the New... Read more
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