In October, Filipino veterans of World War II finally received recognition from the U.S. for their critical role in liberating the Philippines — and its strategic American Army bases — from the Japanese. A Congressional Gold Medal, designed by Woodstock artist Joel Iskowitz, was presented to veterans and their descendants.
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.
“Before getting this, we would have had to handle this past weekend’s missing hikers the old school way, carrying everything in and then everything out by hand.”
Today the towers are adorned with dozens of cables, whip antennas, pole antennas, circular antennas, parabolic dish antennas, four-bay antennas, repeaters, reflectors, and microwave and UHF transmitters. What is their purpose? No one knows– or at least no one is saying.
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.
With a new survey showing that only 27 percent of respondents favor tearing down the Woodstock Library building and replacing it with new construction, Woodstock Library Trustees are faced with deciding how to proceed.
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 legislation fulfills a December 2016 compromise which allowed Catskill Mountain Railroad to operate its tourist trains from Kingston to West Hurley while the county moved forward with plans to establish the Ashokan hiking/biking trail.
Eighty-one customers have opted out of Central Hudson’s new electric meters, which transmit usage info remotely. The company has argued that it should be able to bill those customers extra fees for in-person readings. Those fees were recently struck down by the state regulator, but the issue is still not resolved, say local activists.