Slate Hill News

MINISINK Town of Minisink residents were invited to a public information meeting Wednesday where the possible acquisition of the 7.5 miles of abandoned rail trail connecting Westtown and Unionville was discussed.

Troopers responded to a home at 17 Brook Trail in the Town of Mamakating and arrested two men accused of assaulting their wives.

From healthcare to law, engineering to finance, manufacturing to education, every major industry is represented by its 400,000 active members.

J.J. McLoughlin's Eagle Scout project concluded with a 21-gun salute, the echoing notes of taps and the skirl of bagpipes, in honor of 11 veterans who died long before the people who attended Saturday's ceremony at Slate Hill Cemetery were born.

UConn's annual "First Night" show on Oct. 16 at Gampel Pavilion won't be as dramatic as it usually is since the fans there will be introduced to just one new player, freshman guard Kelly Faris.Of course, those fans who attended the celebratory dinner in honor of the naitonal champions already had their chance to meet Kelly - and there were a lot of ...

A week ago, they appeared by the thousands at local ShopRites, greeting shoppers like an old friend.

The weather outside the 226-year-old Old School Baptist Church in Slate Hill was so splendid Sunday, it gave rich meaning to the poetry of the hymn "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee": "Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee, opening to the sun ... Stars and angels sing around Thee." The congregation at the annual interfaith service, sponsored by the ...

The railroad track has been restored at the County Route 78 crossing in the Town of Wallkill.

The Department of Environmental Conservation will re-treat about 50 acres of wetland below Ridgebury Lake with a fish poison to try to eradicate an invasive fish species that remains there.

SLATE HILL The Wawayanda Town Planning Board has issued Brookfield Resource Management the final scoping document for the company's proposed recycling facility in the town.

Weeks of soggy weather have slowed the appearance of some crops in the region, but haven't dampened the spirits of shoppers at local farmers markets.

If cats had opposable thumbs, Buddy the hitchhiking cat could be halfway to Fishkill by now.

KIRKWOOD - Jerry Higbie of Slate Hill won the 45th Heath Memorial Modified race at Five Mile Point Speedway on Saturday.

The New York State Department of Transportation has awarded an $807,000 contract to fix 54 highway culverts in Steuben County to Slate Hill Constructors, Inc.

Tom Barry is one of several Mid-Hudson Valley residents who used an antenna with their analog TVs to get broadcast TV channels out of NYC.

The alligator catches your eye first. Poised under the Surving Studios sign, the reptile looks real.

SLATE HILL - It was fitting, really. Who else but Jennifer Reitemeyer should have hauled in Saturday's final out? Ironically, though, it wasn't a strikeout.

A more than 100-year-old bridge along County Route 812 in the village of Heuvelton soon will be knocked down and replaced.

The kids stood on the banks of Catlin Creek as Mike Conklin stood in the cool water in a pair of waders, a bucket of 85 brown trout fingerlings at his side.

Firefighters are calling for additional manpower and equipment to a fully involved structure fire at Lothar's Body Shop at Maltese Drive.