South Fallsburg News

An afternoon thunderstorm in the mid-Hudson Valley spawned hail, cut electricity and ignited buildings and trees with lightning bolts.

Police say five teenagers robbed a man in South Fallsburg early Wednesday morning, and took 75 cents.

A large collection of old favorites and new local talents will perform this summer at Monticello Casino & Raceway.

The Borscht Belt is known for great comedy. In an admirable attempt to blend theater with the region's rich Jewish traditions, Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop is presenting Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore's farce "What the Rabbi Saw." The comic situation in which the characters find themselves is certainly silly enough.

Ready for some slapstick fun? The Rivoli Theater's production of "What The Rabbi Saw" continues at 8 p.m. at the theater, 437 Route 42 in South Fallsburg.

Motorists are being advised that the state Department of Transportation will do bridge maintenance work Friday on Route 17 eastbound one-quarter mile after exit 107 in the Town of Thompson.

A Monticello police officer made the most DWI arrests in 2008 in Sullivan County.

Blame it on Granpa Brewster. Keeping two cadavers in his basement laboratory may well have been the inspiration for 60ish sisters Abby and Martha to enhance his legacy by poisoning several men with arsenic-laced wine.

This untitled work by David Scher, in watercolor, ink and graphite on paper, will be one of those featured at the first show held at the new Callicoon Fine Arts gallery, starting on Saturday, May 16 with a reception from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. New art gallery opens in Callicoon CALLICOON, NY-Callicoon Fine Arts, a new art gallery, will celebrate its ...

A second person has been arrested in the April 12 slashing of a man at the West Broadway Apartments.

Police say an Orange County store owner ripped off a Fallsburg food distributor, writing bad checks totaling more than $23,000 in exchange for merchandise.

Former South Fallsburg resident Joey DeGraw will have one of his songs appear on the WB's "One Tree Hill" tonight.

That's because, says factory worker Rosa Turcios, the International Union of Journeymen & Allied Trades hasn't done much for a decade other than take $16 a month from their paychecks.

Police say a South Fallsburg man on Friday assaulted his girlfriend outside the Aldi's store on Broadway and then stole $988 in cash from her pocketbook.

It was so quiet when the 125 second-graders took their seats in the Benjamin Cosor Elementary School cafeteria-auditorium that you could hear a bone drop - a dog bone, that is.

The Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop will hold auditions for the musical "The Third Violet" at 7 p.m. March 12 and 2 p.m. March 15 at the Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main St.

The Sullivan County Division of Public Works has announced that a public information meeting will be held to discuss the proposed replacement of the County Route 53 Bridge over the Neversink River.

With translation becoming a thing of the past in classrooms filled with second-language learners, the nontranslation method is being accepted by local students at the Hudson Valley Language Center in Middletown ...

A fourth person has been charged in connection with the sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl that was uncovered after photos were posted on MySpace social networking Web site.

Police in Monticello have arrested a fourth person in connection with the posting of photos showing a 17-year-old local girl being sexually assaulted in a Monticello residence on December 23, 2008.