Police say the accused is a member of the group called the Felony Lane Gang, a group of criminals who are responsible for stealing purses from parked vehicles, usually forcible entry (smash and grab) and then use the stolen IDs, bank cards and bank checks to access the victim’s bank accounts and remove money without the owner’s knowledge.
A local study aiming to put a dent in Lyme disease rates by testing different tick-culling methods in 24 Hudson Valley neighborhoods will benefit from $100,000 in state funding, secured in June by State Sen. Jen Metzger (D-Rosendale).
In a first for Ulster County, an alleged drug dealer has been charged with criminally negligent homicide following an overdose death; in this case, it was heroin laced with fentanyl that killed a woman in May of 2018.
In the third session of a state Supreme Court hearing on the matter of alleged illegal C&D material dumping, Saugerties resident Joe Karolys’ counsel argued on Monday, August 21 that samples of construction and demolition material on his client’s property taken by state Department of Environmental Conservation personnel indicating the presence of pesticides and heavy metals such as mercury were false, and that media attention vilifying his client as a “polluter” had irreparably damaged his business.
On the songs on Give Me Color, Flanigan attempts to strike a universal emotional chord. Flanigan said while the lyrics on his previous albums were gnawing at him to be written, those on this album were composed more deliberately — simultaneously for the women that bring wholeness to his life and for the everyman.
The Saugerties Police Department is investigating a string of larcenies from unlocked vehicles in the area of Fish Creek and Patch Road in the Town of Saugerties.
The coordinator, TV23’s lone paid employee, is doing a full-time job on part-time pay, said a member of the board.
New Saugerties school district superintendent Kirk Reinhardt says he intends a greater focus on shared decision-making in the next two years. Casting a wider net and involving more people in educational processes will lead to a more harmonious relationship between the district and the community it serves, he believes.
Starting with this fall’s crop of legislators and county officials, legislators can serve no more than six full terms and executives and comptrollers no more than three.
Fifty-eight bikes, their riders clad in patch-covered black leather, traveled about 80 miles on Sunday, Aug. 11 and raised $1,800 towards a new building for the Saugerties Animal Shelter.