Her husband had been ill for years and suffering from severe back pain, and “slowly killing himself” with alcohol. She said she saved nearly 100 pain pills for him to consume, along with alcohol, to end his life. “I aided him,” she said. The judge said he planned to sentence her to 2-6 years in prison.
Solane Verraine, the Phoenicia woman charged with helping her husband, Johnny Asia, commit suicide last November, has been offered a deal: plead guilty to second-degree manslaughter, with a sentence of 2-7 years in prison.
In Shandaken, the police chief reports on teenagers stealing from parked cars and the perennial paving scam.
Part II Last week, we explored the youth and professional life of geneticist and corn breeder Sherret S. Chase of
Opening on Friday, December 1, the show runs for three weekends, recreating a 1943 Christmas Eve broadcast.
Sherret S. Chase, whose research in forestry led to his co-founding of the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, lives on a mountainside in the Town of Olive. Although he will turn 100 next spring, he still walks without a cane, takes crosscountry road trips with his daughter, Helen Chase, and offers advice to Catskills powers that be.
A principle of this design is to provide needed air circulation without losing hot or cold air in winter and summer, respectively. As a result, very little additional heating and air conditioning is necessary to maintain a comfortable room temperature.
Two Poughkeepsie men have been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a man who has been identified as Shandaken resident Frederick Veitch III, known as Joe.
The public is invited to the Woodstock Interfaith Council’s Thanksgiving service on Monday, November 20, at 7 p.m., at the Woodstock Jewish Congregation (WJC). Leaders of local religious institutions — Buddhist, Christian, and Jewish — will offer thoughts, readings, and music on the theme of “Practicing Gratitude in Troubled Times.”
The Shandaken town board voted on November 8 to accept a town budget with the tax increase reduced from the preliminary figure of 7.4 percent to a final hike of 5.45 percent, still higher than the state’s two percent tax cap.