Woodbourne News

A Brooklyn man was airlifted to Westchester Medical Center Friday afternoon after driving his car into a brook off of Route 52, according to Fallsburg town police.

The New York City jail chaplain who was suspended after arranging a bar mitzvah for the son of an inmate at the facility known as the Tombs spoke out to Eyewitness News Friday.

A Phillipsport man has been charged with felony grand larcey in the theft of $1,600 worth of jewelry.

The Manhattan House of Detention, known as the Tombs, on White Street in lower Manhattan, N.Y. The bar mitzvah party for the son of a convicted scam artist was held at the New York City jail.

The young boy read from the Torah during his bar mitzvah, his guests enjoyed a catered kosher spread and the proud father returned to his cell.

The Sullivan Annex, a minimum-security state prison perched on a slope above a fishing creek here in the foothills of upstate New York, is an unlikely political battleground.

ANOTHER OLD BORSCHT BELT HOTEL IN THE CATSKILLS HAS BEEN HIT BY FIRE. FIREFIGHTERS IN SULLIVAN COUNTY ARE WORKING A 3 ALARM BLAZE AT THE OLD ALLADIN HOTEL IN WOODBOURNE.

Associated Press - May 17, 2009 2:33 PM ET WOODBOURNE, N.Y. - The show won't go on after all.

An employee of the Achieve Rehab and Nursing Facility has been charged with felonies in the theft of a credit card from a patient at the home.

LIBERTY Village Police in Liberty have arrested a Woodbourne man on three felony charges stemming from his alleged theft of a credit card from a patient at the Achieve Rehab and Nursing Facility, where he worked.

Christopher Baumann did not live to see his 33rd birthday. Baumann, who grew up in Sullivan County, died either on the evening of April 18 or early April 19, while working and living in Barcelona, Spain.

Firemen are being kept busy responding to brush fires springing up throughout the area.

There was no talk of recession and gloom at the CVI building in Ferndale when the grants for 2009 were handed out.

Happy 200th birthday, Sullivan County. You sure have a lot to celebrate this year: Mountains that seem to touch the vast blue sky.

Police say two Sullivan County men were charged in a burglary of a Woodbourne home.

A Woodbourne man threw a plate at a Fallsburg police officer on Friday afternoon after the patrolman came to his home to investigate a burglary, police said.

A large warehouse on Novogrodsky Road has burned to the ground, fire officials said.

One breakfast was a must go on Sullivan's political circuit. Women wore colorful church hats, the men arrived in their Sunday best for songs, prayers and fine speeches over pancakes, scrambled eggs and grits.

A Rolling V bus crashed into a snowbank and a utility pole while on the prison service road at Woodbourne Correctional Facility on Thursday morning, injuring one passenger.

In November, the state announced it would save $3.4 million by shutting down farms at 12 of its prisons, including operations at Wallkill, Sullivan and Eastern correctional facilities.