Bloomingburg News

A ceiling in the kitchen of the Quickway Diner caught fire Wednesday afternoon, shutting down the restaurant for a few days while the damage is repaired, according to employees.

When she was a 2-year-old with pigtails and yellow barrettes, Rachel Byrd was so loquacious, her pediatrician called her "Dr. Byrd." After all, her mom, Leslie, swears Rachel could speak in full sentences when she was one.

Scores of families will have to scramble to pay for child care next week because of a substantial cut in funding from the United Way and a sudden change in how the organization subsidizes day care.

A fire gutted a raised ranch house near the Orange County border Monday morning.

You might misplace your wallet or cell phone or even lose your car keys, but whatever you do, don't lose your horse.

Emergency crews are on the scene of a working structure fire of an abandoned building at Burlingham and Walker Valley roads in the Town of Mamakating.

Motorists are being advised of possible traffic delays as the state Department of Transportation will begin guide rail repair work on Route 17 eastbound and westbound between exit 104 and exit 116 , beginning 6 a.m., Monday in the towns of Thompson and Mamakating.

The Dispute Resolution Center of Sullivan County will hold a fundraiser plant sale from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Friday in the lobby of the Sullivan County Government Center in Monticello.

Sullivan County District Attorney candidate Glenn Kroll faced a state police investigation into witness tampering two years ago where he was accused of offering cash and gifts to coerce the victims not to testify in a child rape case, according to court papers filed in his former client's appeal that will be heard next week in an Albany appeals ...

The ironworker who shot his wife in the shoulder Saturday and refused to leave his Bloomingburg home during a nine-hour standoff with troopers apparently became enraged after a simple argument with his wife that morning.

Steven Fekete, 56, of Bloomingburg, was arrested Sunday, a day after his wife ran to her neighbors' garage with a bullet in her shoulder.

BLOOMINGBURG, Orange County - Police say the suspected shooter in a violent domestic dispute is in custody after an eight-hour standoff at his Bloomingburg home.

Police have surrounded the home of a Bloomingburg man who barricaded himself in his home after shooting his wife in the shoulder on Saturday morning.

State police say two young men were arrested on Monday after they were spotted shooting at parked cars while driving along Mountain Road near Bloomingburg.

A stubborn brush fire that has kept firemen from eight companies busy all afternoon is being reported as contained.

About 100 firefighters from nearly two dozen fire companies from Sullivan, Orange and Ulster counties are back fighting a "major forest fire" that began Saturday afternoon in the village of Bloomingburg.

Motorists are being warned of possible delays due to asphalt repair work being done on Route 17 between exits 106 and 116 in Sullivan County.

The weekend forest fire that burned nearly 400 acres and threatened homes on the Shawanga Lodge Road 'is well under control,' Sullivan County Fire Coordinator Dick Martinkovic said.

Firefighters in New York and New Jersey battled wildfires on Saturday. A massive forest fire spread over about 229 acres in Sullivan County in upstate New York.

Several fire companies from Orange, Sullivan and Ulster fire companies are battling an extensive brush fire in Bloomingburg.