Monticello News

Blanche Masters ran the diner on Route 17B with her son Bud LeConey for 26 years.

Bernardo Escobar of Monticello's A & B Jewelry & Boutique said Friday that his records of purchases have led to arrests.

Cathy Paty, vice president of the Sullivan County Chamber of Commerce, says visits to the chamber's recreational vehicle far exceed foot traffic to its former Broadway office.

Two Monticello teenagers were arrested Saturday, accused of breaking two windows of a car parked outside a residence on Lakewood Avenue in the village, Monticello police said.

Officers recovered a crack pipe and prescription painkillers after arresting a husband and wife in the parking lot of the John Crawford senior housing complex on Monday, Monticello police said.

A village man was arrested Friday morning, accused of violating an order of protection just an hour after being released from jail for the same crime.

The Village of Port Jefferson was cited in an audit by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli for paying out nearly $700,000 to vendors without soliciting competitive bids, failing to seek competition for $811,496 in public monies paid to service providers, and certain flaws in payroll procedures, including failure to maintain leave records.

A former Woodridge Fire Department captain was sentenced to one to three years in state prison this week for starting a fire last year to impress his girlfriend with his heroism.

A six-year-old has died after a fire spread to several apartments in Monticello.

The state attorney general's office says David Turick still has an illegal car-dismantling business and hasn't removed debris from his Monticello property.

Take, for example, when I encountered Newt Gingrich in the lobby of the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas a few months ago.

And with that declaration by the Landfield Avenue Synagogue rabbi, the partying begins in Monticello.

The third annual Great Sullivan County Food Raiser benefit returns this weekend.

A Sullivan County grand jury indicted Jensy Delacruz, 19, of Monticello, Wednesday in two shootings in August in the Village of Liberty.

Warrior Zone, a 29,000-square-foot indoor recreation center geared to young soldiers, opened Friday at Joint Base Lewis-McChord and features more than $1 million in high-tech gadgetry: Beyond the eight pool tables awaited a phalanx of state-of-the-art computers, gaming consoles and monitors.

Police say Willis Bickham, 28, tried to sexually assault a 22-year-old woman at a residence on York Avenue in the Village of Monticello.

The Woodridge man charged with the theft of a $35,000 Torah from Landfield Avenue Synagogue had worked on several repair projects at the synagogue and had been sought for weeks for questioning, the congregation's rabbi said.

Police have recovered the $35,000 torah stolen this month from the Landfield Avenue Synagogue in Monticello, the congregation's rabbi said Tuesday.

A Monticello man who had his 36-year sentence for heading a large cocaine operation in Sullivan County thrown out pleaded guilty Friday to multiple drug charges and money laundering.

A parolee was arrested on drug charges after a traffic stop Friday night, village police said.