Rifton News

The die was cast in August, when the school board voted to close Anna Devine elementary in Rifton, Sophie Finn elementary in Kingston and Zena elementary in Woodstock.

Zac Pesner knew "Dead Man Walking" was about the death penalty, but that's about all he knew when he took the role of death-row inmate Matthew Poncelet for the play that opens Thursday at St.

Teams from the Ulster and Dutchess county sheriff's offices staged a training exercise Wednesday on the Wallkill River, in Ulster's hamlet of Rifton, to prepare for flood rescues.

Rebekah Adams wanted pedals under her feet. Nothing else - not a scooter, a four-wheeler or a seat on her dad's bicycle - could measure up.