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The man who drowned in a Putnam County lake has been identified. Police say Sydney Joseph, 46, of Brooklyn, drowned in Lake Oscawana in Putnam Valley Saturday afternoon.
The body of a male was found in Lake Oscawana in Putnam Valley Monday morning, and investigation is still ongoing.
Mayronne said that because the subdivision’s drainage plan showed that all its runoff would flow to the lake, water flowing away from the slab-built homes would not endanger any homes in nearby ...
PEEKSKILL, N. Y., July 7.-May Carney, sixteen years old, residing at 766 Columbus Avenue, New York, was drowned yesterday afternoon in Lake Oscawana, a resort nine miles from Peekskill.
Bruce Kuttruff and his family say they saw a neighbor of theirs drowning in the freezing waters off of Lake Oscawana around 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday night, reports CBS2's Scott Rapoport.
A 14-year-old Boy Scout and his family teamed up with first responders for a heroic rescue in the freezing water at Oscawana Lake.
Michael Cola spotted a garage engulfed in flames on Oscawana Lake Road and immediately jumped into action, and his quick thinking and calls to the people inside helped a mother and her six ...
It was a team effort of civilians, law enforcement and firefighters to save a man, who fell through the frozen Lake Oscawana.
Scientists have discovered an ancient lakebed buried under more than a mile of ice that may hold secrets to Greenland's past climate. The lake formed when northwest Greenland was ice-free ...
The man who drowned in a Putnam County lake has been identified. Police say Sydney Joseph, 46, of Brooklyn, drowned in Lake Oscawana in Putnam Valley Saturday afternoon.