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MONTICELLO — There was no fentanyl in marijuana police seized from a man in April, based on further laboratory testing of the drugs, the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.Sheriff Michael Schiff said a field test kit of seven grams of marijuana seized during a traffic stop April 8 in the Monticello Wal-Mart parking lot indicated a positive for fentanyl. Two samples were tested, both using NARK II field kits, said Undersheriff Eric Chaboty.However, [...]

MONTICELLO - A Sullivan County man was sentenced Wednesday to six years in state prison for burglarizing a Fallsburg home in September of 2015.Daniel Morris, 24, of Woodbourne, was sentenced in Sullivan County Court after pleading guilty to second-degree burglary, a felony, according to a news release from District Attorney James Farrell.He was also sentenced to five years of post-release supervision.Fallsburg police arrested Morris using footage from [...]

CITY OF NEWBURGH — SUNY Orange leaders say they're dropping plans to overhaul three buildings next to the college's Newburgh campus and use them for job training after learning that Orange County lawmakers had other plans for one of the county-owned structures.Instead, the college hopes to begin hosting training with local businesses in existing space at the college's main campus in Middletown and its Newburgh branch. Those programs eventually could be expanded to [...]

ROCK HILL — Sullivan County's annual real estate tax foreclosure auction is scheduled for June 12 in Rock Hill.The auction will start at 9:30 a.m. at the Ramada Rock Hill at the Sullivan Event Center at 283 Rock Hill Dr., according to a news release from the county.Anyone interested can register to bid online by 4 p.m. June 10 at www.nysauctions.com, in person June 10 at the Ramada at 6 p.m. or on the day of the auction starting at 8 a.m.Properties up [...]

GOSHEN - "Everything I did was my choice. I made terrible mistakes, and I’ve hurt my family, my friends and my marriage," Amie-Beth Morran told a judge on Wednesday in Orange County Court, as he was about to sentence her for stealing nearly $67,000 from the union local where she served as treasurer.Morran spoke haltingly, through tears."I’ve lost everybody’s trust. And I beg everybody’s forgiveness," she said.Morran, 42, of the Village [...]

ELDRED — The New York Department of Environmental Conservation issued a permit last week to allow the discharge of 17,000 gallons of treated wastewater per day into a tributary of the Delaware River.The wastewater will come from The Eldred Preserve, an approximately $20 million hospitality project under construction on Route 55 in Eldred, and will be discharged into Halfway Brook from a primary treatment plant on site.Plans include the installation of a [...]

Killarney, Estonia, gracility, probity.Could you have spelled them all?Two Orange County ace spellers, Morgan Gagnon, an eighth-grader at Cornwall Central Middle School, and Richard Deng, a seventh-grader at Monroe-Woodbury, got them almost all right. Gagnon missed gracility - the state of being gracefully slender; Deng got both his words, Killarney and Estonia, right.But that wasn’t quite enough to move on to the finals in the Scripps National Spelling [...]

GOSHEN — A Port Jervis woman has been sentenced to a total of six years in prison for supplying oxycodone to a disabled acquaintance and helping him snort the crushed pills, which led to a fatal overdose.Katelynn Smith, 24, admitted during her October guilty plea in Orange County Court that on April 18, 2018, she sold the pills to a Port Jervis man who was quadriplegic. Although she knew he took other medications, including the sedative Klonopin, and knew he was drinking [...]

GOSHEN — The Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday the arrest of 18 people in felony drug cases over the past two weeks, including two medical office managers who prosecutors say took advantage of electronic prescribing to illegally dispense more than 50,000 oxycodone pills.Prosecutors lodged the most serious charges, operating as a major trafficker and second-degree conspiracy, against the two women, Jodee O’Dell, 38, of the [...]

MONTICELLO — A Sullivan County man was sentenced Wednesday to six years in state prison for burglarizing a Fallsburg home in September of 2015.Daniel Morris, 24, of Woodbourne, was sentenced in Sullivan County Court after pleading guilty to second-degree burglary, a felony, according to a news release from District Attorney James Farrell.Fallsburg police arrested Morris using footage from surveillance cameras installed by a homeowner who previously had his home [...]