Plattekill News

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County is offering a workshop to help people learn money management skills and control credit card debt.

Police have identified a man who was electrocuted Friday afternoon as 69-year-old William J. Rhoades.

The Ulster County Sheriff's office says a 70-year-old man died of electrocution when he accidentally cut into an overhead power line while he was trimming trees.

The Ulster County Sheriff's Office is investigating the accidental electrocution of an individual in Plattekill Friday afternoon.

As the holiday travel season shifts into high gear, we want to call readers' attention to an e-mail we received Thanksgiving morning from the Thruway's news alert service.

Firefighters were able to put out a blaze at a Fries Lane house Wednesday afternoon, with the help of an alert 9-year-old boy.

Town of Newburgh Councilwoman Elizabeth Greene reads a proclamation honoring town resident James Leghorn, left, assistant chief of the Cronomer Valley Fire Department, while Chief Dominick Greene looks on.

'On the Record' features birth announcements on Page 2B on Mondays and announcements about local residents in college and the armed services on Page 3B throughout the week.

A 15-year-old faces a new charge in a brutal attack on a Plattekill man. Leonel Bravo of Newburgh was charged Monday with first-degree assault, a high-level felony.

Katie Compton took and kept the lead in Treviso, Italy. Words by UCI Press World Champion Niels Albert and Katherine Compton gave outstanding performances in the first round of the UCI's Cyclo-cross World Cup presented by Safety Jogger in Treviso, Italy, on Sunday.

A judge on Friday spared a Newburgh accountant who lives in the Town of Plattekill from doing any jail time, but fined him $15,000 and ordered him to serve 200 hours of community service for preparing phony tax returns.

Ulster land trust hires new leader - The Wallkill Valley Land Trust announced the appointment of Christie Ferguson as its new executive director.

The doors to the Clintondale School were officially shut more than 40 years ago, but the school has not been forgotten.

The upper left quadrant of the carefully produced brochure of the Thomas A. Dee Cancer Center at Benedictine Hospital contains a striking image.

A group of young men and teenagers beat a Plattekill man half dead and left him in the street, police said.

NEWBURGH - Four arrests were made in a gang assault case Sunday that involved a baseball bat and a cleaver-like knife, City of Newburgh police announced today.

NEW PALTZ - A Florida man was jailed without bail Sunday after he was charged with raping a freshman student on the campus of the State University at New Paltz, University Police Chief Raymond Bryant said today.

The Town of Plattekill's 17th annual Plattekill Day Celebration will be held from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sept.

The Southern Ulster County Chamber of Commerce will present a networking workshop from noon to 2 p.m. Aug.

The Ulster County Community Action Committee recently named its elected officers for 2010.