Firefighters from Mt. Marion, Saugerties, Sawkill, Town of Ulster, Centerville, West Hurley, Kiskatom and members of the Ulster County Sheriff’s Department and the New York State Police Department paid tribute on June 22 to Captain Jack H. Rose, a member of the Mount Marion Fire Department who died on December 19, 2015 at age 19 in the line of duty.
These defendants were arrested as part of a Federal/State/Local joint task force investigation into a heroin distribution ring which operated in Ellenville.
Saturday, June 29: The first in a summer series of family-friendly movies shown on a big screen in Poughkeepsie’s Upper Landing Park, with the span of the Walkway over the Hudson as backdrop. Food trucks will be parked onsite, and there will be live music provided by Crash and Byrne (7 p.m.) and family activities before the show.
Saturday, June 29: One of the Hudson Valley’s leading musical exports, the horn-powered global pop sensation plays a local show in the intimate downstairs space of the Falcon. The band’s latest single is a cover of Sophia George’s 1985 dancehall hit “Girlie Girlie.”
Monday, July 1: Switzer is the first woman to officially register and run the Boston Marathon (and the subject of a very famous photograph) and the author of Marathon Woman, which has recently been optioned for a major featurelength film. Robinson is the author of When Running Made History, a new book that redefines the contribution of running to modern society via eyewitness stories from the last 70 years. Outside magazine’s Amby Burfoot called it “the best running book of all time.”
Saturday, June 29: Of all the giants that Warren has fêted and roasted (Cash, Cohen, others), it is his acoustic David Bowie tribute that has perhaps drawn best (hard to say, though, as sold out is sold out and there is no way to count the heads looking in the window).
Police investigation determined that a Columbia County woman employed as a clinician at Berkshire Farm Center in Canaan committed two sexual acts and instances of sexual abuse with a victim under the age of 17 years old while at the facility.
The New York State Police are investigating the robbery of Trustco Bank, located at 1490 State Route 9 in the town of Wappinger, which occurred late yesterday morning.
Antonio Delgado (D-Rhinebeck), who represents New York’s 19th Congressional District, was one of 230 congressman who voted in favor of a $4.5 billion border funding bill that aims to improve conditions of detained migrants. A similar bill is being considered in the Senate.
A 92-year-old man was struck and killed today by an Amtrak train between the Rhinecliff and Staatsburg stations.