Monticello, NY – For the fourth year in a row, the NYS Comptroller’s Office has designated Sullivan County free of fiscal stress.

The Office recently released its 2018 Fiscal Stress rankings for municipalities and school districts statewide, based on the annual financial reports submitted to the Office. Sullivan County again scored well, earning the best rank of “No Designation” (meaning there are no indications of the County being susceptible to fiscal stress at this time).

Liberty, NY – Sullivan County Public Health Services would like to notify the public that three confirmed cases of pertussis (whooping cough) have been identified in children of varying ages in Sullivan County this week.

“This is an important advisory,” Public Health Director Nancy McGraw stated. “As recently as 2016, Sullivan County had a pertussis outbreak of nearly 30 cases, and dozens of additional probable cases were investigated, interviewed and individuals treated.”

Monticello, NY – Longtime Sullivan County Coroner Michael Speer returned to the board of the NYS Association of County Coroners and Medical Examiners (NYSACCME) on September 21, when members unanimously elected him to a four-year at-large position, representing the entire State.

A 20-year member of NYSACCME, Speer previously served as treasurer of the board. He and fellow Sullivan County coroners Alan Kesten, Albee Bockman and B. Elton Harris were instrumental in bringing NYSACCME’s annual conference to Sullivan County last year.

WOODBOURNE:  Saturday, November 9 – The 21st Annual Veterans Day Parade, sponsored by The Woodbourne Fire Company No. 1.  Line up: 12:00 p.m. – Step Off:  1:00 p.m. Route 42/52 (Main Street), Woodbourne.  Service to follow at Woodbourne Firehouse.

JEFFERSONVILLE:  Monday, November 11 – 6:00p.m.  Veterans Thank You Dinner @

St. George’s Church, 97 Schoolhouse Hill Road, Jeffersonville.  For reservations:

Contact - (845) 482-4640, M-TH, 9am – 2pm

Sullivan County Sustainability Coordinator Heather Brown stands proudly with the SolSmart Silver Award in front of SUNY Sullivan's solar farm.

Loch Sheldrake, NY – Sullivan County has received a Silver designation from the national SolSmart program in recognition of the County’s success in supporting solar energy development for towns, businesses, homeowners and to power County operations.

Hurleyville, NY – When Mickey Barnett (a longtime Catskills resort performer and Rock-a Billy Hall of Fame member) suggested Sullivan County bring a doo-wop band to the Museum’s First Sunday Music and History program, organizers wondered, “What does doo-wop have to do with Sullivan County history?”

Well, according to Barnett, there were doo-wop bands playing all over the County back in the resort heydays. Who knew!

Swan Lake, NY – The National Weather Service will hold a SKYWARN Basic course in Sullivan County on November 12 at 6:30 p.m. at the Emergency Services Training Center in Swan Lake. There is no cost to attend, and the public – particularly first-responders – is welcome.

Monticello, NY – A majority of Sullivan County legislators this week agreed to acquire 21 acres for a new visitors center, to be located in Rock Hill and built without using local taxpayer dollars.

Hurleyville, NY – Dr. Frederick Cook, the world-renowned Arctic explorer, was born in 1865 into a small family in Hortonville, right here in Sullivan County. His fame came from his discovery of the North Pole, but he was also a physician, an entrepreneur, an ethnographer and an author. One of Dr. Cook’s books in particular, “Return from the Pole,” remains a powerful and beautifully written work that affirms the highest values of the human spirit.

And yet his life was defined by controversy.