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Associated Press – June 18, 2010 3:15 AM ET WAYLAND, N.Y. (AP) – A Steuben County man has been charged with operating a snowmobile while drunk – in June. State police say 46-year-old Carl Kruchten of Wayland was arrested after they got reports of someone snowmobiling across yards and causing damage [...] TIOGA CENTER, NY – A snowmobile drag racer was air-lifted to Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pa., following a frightening crash Saturday at Skyview Drags. Ken Burlew, 66, of Ithaca, was involved in a scary crash with defending Bike/Sled champion Brent Garcia, Cincinnatus, when the wheelie bar on Garcia’s Buell motorcycle broke [...] This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend the New York State Snowmobile Association’s annual convention in Liverpool. I am honored to have been invited to speak and receive the group’s 2010 Legislator of the Year award. What struck me was the tremendous turnout and support shown by the [...] POTSDAM — Next stop, Greenland. A converted electric snowmobile designed by Clarkson University undergraduates is heading to the Greenland Environmental Observatory to help scientists there collect environmental data. The zero-emissions snowmobile took second place at the 2010 Society for Automotive Engineering’s Clean Snowmobile Challenge. The prize for the top two teams is [...] By BRYON ACKERMAN The Chamber Alliance of the Mohawk Valley recently sent a letter to Gov. David Paterson opposing his budget proposal to take $1 million per year from the snowmobile fund. According to the March 5 letter from alliance President Joan Drummond, the nine chambers of commerce in the alliance [...] LAKE PLACID – After seven years of fighting the state over motorized access to Old Mountain Road, and winning just about every case, Lake Placid snowmobiler Jim McCulley still can’t ride his snowmobile on the road, at least according to the towns of Keene and North Elba. Read more.. New details in a fatal snowmobile crash over the weekend in northern New York. Police now say 41-year-old Everett Willis, of Brainardsville, fell from the his snowmobile and was struck by another snowmobile driven by 41-year-old Todd Harrigan of Chateaugay. It happened on Upper Chateaugay Lake in Dannemora Friday night. No charges have been filed as police are waiting [...] McDONOUGH – The Chenango County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the cause of a snowmobile accident that took the life of a Smithville man early Wednesday morning. Sheriff’s Lt. Richard Cobb said 48-year-old Ross Scribner Jr. was killed between 1 and 4 a.m. Wednesday after the Polaris snowmobile he was riding along Creek Road in the Town [...] GREIG — A Long Island man died here early Sunday and another man was severely injured when the snowmobiles they were operating struck a group of trees along Partridgeville Road. State police said Frank Orobello, 59, Ronkonkoma, was traveling north with Anthony Gallace, 22, East Meadow, when the pair failed to negotiate a curve. Mr. Gallace suffered [...] Lucas Matthew Rasset, 28, of Buffalo, has been identified by the Carver County Sheriff’s Office as the snowmobiler who died in an accident near New Germany on Saturday, Feb. 20. According to the Sheriff’s Office, Rasset died after colliding with a guide wire extending from a power pole along County Road 33. The crash occurred at about 7 [...] FORESTPORT — A snowmobiler faces several charges after authorities said he almost struck an officer during a snowmobile enforcement initiative that involved the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office and state Department of Environmental Conservation officers. At about 7:10 p.m. Friday, Craig S. Kratzenberg, 40, of Forestport, was operating a 2006 Arctic Cat snowmobile north on Irish Settlement Road [...] HERKIMER COUNTY, N.Y. — A New Jersey man is dead after crashing his snowmobile in Herkimer County. Police in the Town of Webb were called to Big Moose Road at about 2 p.m. Sunday. They say Patrick Naughton, 64, was driving his snowmobile on the road when he lost control and crashed into a tree. He [...] SCHROON, N.Y. (AP) – Police say two people died in separate snowmobile accidents in the Adirondacks. State police say 21-year-old Benjamin G. Round of Warrensburg died in a snowmobile crash Sunday on Schroon Lake when his sled hit an ice ridge. Round and a passenger were thrown from the snowmobile. Round suffered a fatal head injury [...] FRENCH CREEK, N.Y. — Three people were injured when a snowmobile crashed head-on into a tree Sunday morning in French Creek, N.Y. Police said Greg Zenko, 40, was driving a snowmobile with three children on a property in the 1600 block of Route 426 in French Creek. Assemblyman Steve Hawley Wednesday called on Gov. David Paterson to remove a proposal from his 2010-2011 executive budget aimed at transferring $1 million from the Snowmobile Trail Development and Maintenance Fund into the State’s General Fund. “This proposal to take $1 million away from the Snowmobile Fund is unacceptable and serves as just another example of [...] CLIFTON, N.Y. – On 01/23/10, St. Lawrence County sheriff’s deputies investigated a fatal snowmobile accident on the Tooley Pond Road near the River Road in the Town of Clifton. Deputies say Mark D. Nichols, 40, of Brownville, N.Y. was traveling north on the east side of the Tooley Pond Road and crossed onto the west side [...] WATERVILLE, N.Y. (WKTV) – A Waterville man was sent to the hospital Friday night after police say he lost control of his snowmobile after going over a mound of snow. According to New York State Police, 43-year-old Richard Rockwell was traveling north on CNY Snow Travelers Trail C7 when he went over a mound of snow [...] WEST TURIN, N.Y. (AP) – Authorities say a Syracuse-area man has been killed in a snowmobile accident in northern New York. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office says 47-year-old Jerome Beck of Lyncourt was traveling on a road in West Turin Saturday night when he failed to negotiate a turn. Deputies say his snowmobile went airborne and hit [...] EDINBURG — An East Greenbush police officer is in stable condition at Albany Medical Center Hospital after being injured Saturday night in a snowmobile collision. Officials from the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office said that Edward Miano, 48, and Joe Kelly, 45, both of East Greenbush, were riding snowmobiles on Great Sacandaga Lake when Miano’s machine struck [...] HERKIMER — A funeral for the 36-year-old man, who was killed in a snowmobiling accident last weekend, will take place at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Enea Family Funeral Home, 220 North Washington St. in Herkimer. Kevin Gullis of East German Street in Herkimer was traveling on Snow Riders Trail No. 43 off Shells Bush Road when [...] |
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