Wawarsing News

I don't like horror movies much. If I watch one, it has to be over-the-top fiction, with characters way different than myself and in a far-away place, or I don't sleep so well.

The town and its problems with the leaking Delaware Aqueduct will be featured in a two-hour prime-time special on the History Channel on Monday.

Authorities say two men competing in a road rally have been hurt, one seriously, when their car hurtled into a tree on a narrow dirt road in the Catskills.

A Kerhonkson man has been charged with operating a marijuana growing operation from a residence in the Town of Rochester.

Ulster authorities have arrested 14 people following a four-month investigation into drug sales in Ellenville, Kerhonkson, Napanoch and Accord.

The Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team arrested 14 people Tuesday as the result of a four-month investigation into drug sales in Ellenville, Kerhonkson, Napanoch and Accord.

After 24 years as an Ulster County legislator, Susan Cummings is leaving her seat to run for town clerk in Wawarsing.

The Shadowland Theatre in Ellenville has many people to thank for keeping its Canal Street doors open for 25 years.

A national grocery chain and local anti-Walmart group have sued to stall Walmart's development of a store in Wawarsing.

A 24-year-old Wawarsing man was shot in the back of the neck Tuesday night after trying to break up an argument between his brother and another man, village police said.

A 24-year-old Wawarsing man was shot in the back of the neck Tuesday night after trying to break up an argument between his brother and another man, village police said.

To Laya Varanasi, a student at Roy C. Ketcham High School, who won first place in the Senior Division, and to all 226 students from 36 schools in Dutchess County who took part in the 50th annual Dutchess County Regional Science Fair held this month at Dutchess Community College.

State officials have decided to eliminate prison work crews and the 87 union jobs connected to them.

GARDINER - The Mohonk Preserve will hold its fourth Eleven Communities Appreciation Weekend on April 25-26. On these days, free monthlong memberships will be issued to visitors living in the towns of Crawford, Gardiner, Marbletown, Montgomery, New Paltz, Rochester, Ro-sendale, Shawangunk, and Wawarsing and the villages of Ellenville and New Paltz.

Rodney Auman, 51, of the Town of Wawarsing, was arrested Saturday after reports that he attempted to sell pills and threatened bar patrons at the Running Deer Inn in Napanoch.

If you're a farmer looking for some land, New York might have just the plot for you.

Residents will discuss ways to address Ellenville's teen pregnancy rate at a meeting from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday at Ellenville's Government Center.

The Riverkeeper environmental watchdog group debuted a critical report Wednesday accusing the New York City Department of Environmental Protection of mismanaging its leaky Delaware Aqueduct at the expense of Ulster County communities.

Wildfires, like the one last year on the Shawangunk Ridge, will continue to happen, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers.

The Ulster County Sheriff's Office charged a man who allegedly failed to deliver baseball and football cards ordered through his Web site after taking orders and accepting payments from six out-of-state ...