KINGSTON, N.Y. A lawsuit charging gender discrimination and abusive behavior that was filed against former Ulster County Finance Commissioner Burt Gulnick and Wendy Trojak, a payroll supervisor, was dismissed Thursday in Ulster County Supreme Court. In her complaint, Heather Mikesh, a former confidential secretary for Gulnick, alleged that she was subject to hostility, gender […]
KINGSTON, N.Y. Gregory Thayer was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in state prison for the shooting death of Bruce Swierc, a man Thayer called his best friend, according to a press release from the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office. Thayer, 50, was convicted on May 10 of first-degree manslaughter and second-degree weapons possession following […]