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2024 News Archives

Monticello, NY – County Manager Joshua A. Potosek today presented a 2025 Tentative Sullivan County Budget to the Legislature that continues to reduce debt, expands existing services and avoids layoffs or cuts to programs.

“The 2025 Tentative Sullivan County Budget prioritizes debt reduction, road and bridge investment, and cost-effective government. It carefully positions the County to…

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Darlene Heller et al. posing for a photo

Sullivan County’s HEAP Office is staffed by these friendly and helpful employees! From the left are Ellen Price, Amanda Wood, Nicole Morris, Mardette Wilcox, Rosemary Wolff, Tracy Peterson, Dawn Anglin, Jaime Vetere, and Ashley Boyd.

Liberty, NY – The 2024-2025 Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) season has kicked off.

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Monticello, NY – Sullivan County Public Health has confirmed that a skunk in the Monticello area tested positive for the rabies virus.

“The skunk was killed, and the property owners called Public Health, just as they should,” said Acting Public Health Director Jill Hubert-Simon. “The head of the skunk was sent to Albany, and it came back positive for rabies.”

Rabies occurs…

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Minisink Battleground Monument

Barryville, NY – Sullivan County Historian and The Delaware Company President John Conway admits that when he first broached the idea of doing a “history hike” about 10 years ago, people scoffed. Many had trouble making a connection between history and hiking.

And when he added the wrinkle of telling ghost stories along the way during the Halloween season, making his walks “haunted…

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Liberty, NY – Legislators listened to an extensive review of Sullivan County’s child welfare policies and procedures today in the Health and Human Services Committee of the Legislature.

Undertaken by the Bonadio Group, the review was ordered by the Legislature, at the request of County Manager Joshua Potosek, at the beginning of this year as a follow-up to investigations conducted by…

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Photo Submission Contest

Monticello, NY – The Sullivan County Parks & Recreation Office welcomes photographs taken of the landscapes and wildlife at County parks and museums!

“We are accepting submissions now through December 31, 2024 – but don’t wait. Now’s the time to get out and take beautiful photos of our natural assets!” said Assistant Recreation Director Fiona Feltman. “Entries will be judged by a…

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Liberty, NY – The Sullivan County Welfare Fraud Task Force has made the following arrests:

  • August 23, 2024 – Sage Pere, 26, of Monticello, was arrested for Criminal Use of a Benefit Card in the 2nd Degree, a Class A misdemeanor. It is alleged that Pere sold her SNAP benefit card, issued by the Sullivan County Department of Social…
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electricity demonstration

Swan Lake, NY – Over 50 Sullivan County firefighters and around the same amount of Public Works employees traveled to the Sullivan County Emergency Services Training Center to see a “Live Wire” demonstration by NYSEG last week. In the wake of a near-fatal electrocution in Sullivan County last year, the emphasis was on safety for the NYSEG linemen, firefighters, highway workers and the general…

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Monticello, NY – The Sullivan County Legislature is looking for community members to serve on the board of the Sullivan County Human Rights Commission, starting in 2025.

“The Commission needs a full-time executive director and a reconstituted board,” explained Legislature Chair Nadia Rajsz. “All nine legislators have an opportunity to nominate someone to the board, but we need…

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Monticello, NY – The Sullivan County Board of Elections will register voters on October 5 from 2-9 p.m. and October 10 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Government Center, 100 North Street, Monticello.

“We encourage anyone who has not yet registered to vote to come to our office on these days and times,” said Sullivan County Elections Commissioners Lori Benjamin and Deanna Senyk. “Registrants…

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