![]() A manhunt stretching from Greene to Saratoga counties ensued Thursday everting when 42- year-old Donald Poe crashed his car into guide wires on Route 9W around 8:30 p.m. Poe appeared to be intoxicated at the time of the crash, according to police. "He threatened he would do harm to himself, and he tried to run out into the roadway," said Trooper Abdul Weed of State Police in CatskilL Poe ran into a heavily wooded area that bordered the Thruway. State police utilized search dogs and a helicopter but were unable to locate Poe. The search was called off Friday afternoon when Poe. Walked 'into the Village of Corinth police departme.nt around 12:30 p.m. He threatened he would do harm to himself, and he tried to run out into the roadway. ''We located the Honda he was driving in a parking lot the next day," said Officer Louis S'?mma of Corinth police. Poe was transported back to Coxsackie, where he was arraigned on charges of criminal contempt and aggravated harassment. Coxsackie Village Justice Matthew Kennedy ordered Poe to undergo an alcohol and mental health evaluation and sent him to the Greene County jail in lieu of $25,000 bail. ![]() Earlier in the week, Poe was arrested by Coxsackie police for allegedly breaking into his ex-girlfriend's Mansion Street home, where police say he stole jewelry. He was arraigned on a felony burglary charge and misdemeanor charges of criminal mischief and aggravated harassment. Poe was sent to the Greene County jail in lieu of$1,000 cash bail, which he later posted. For today, we can only do our best to carry on the tradition.I TEACHER/page 9 Students remain suspended By KRISTEN OLBY Three Bethlehem high school students arrested in connection with an attempted burglary of the Bethlehem Central Middle School will be suspended from school for an extended period of time, according to the district Police arrested high school juniors Cullen Breen and Scott Fraser, both 16, and a 15-year-old high school student for allegedly attempting to break in to the school using a rope ladder on Aug. The existing collection of Boltinoffs runs out in October, Junior Whirl, and the world, Unlike the journalistic hoi polloi, we honor Boltinoff and will miss his work. And few of us ever failed to spot at least four out of six differences. Ministrations? How many students of his minutiae went on to rewarding careers asĪrt critics or graphic designers? How many trivia buffs were driven stark raving mad by "Hocus-Focus" and its world of endless itemization? We may never know. How many futureĬrime scene witnesses were better prepared to remember relevant details thanks to Boltinoff's Reading "Hocus-Focus" made better observers of all of us. Stealth a parallel universe of boys with disappearing hats and girls with repositionedĪrms a bracing burst of vaguely unsettling Americana in which flowerpots and lampsĬould move or vanish without logic or reason "Hocus Focus" plunged readers intoĪ world of detail as spare as it was compulsive, with Boltinoff as ourĪrbitrarily twisting the elements to render the whole incomplete, the real unreal. That asks the sharp-eyed reader to "Find at least six differences in details between panels."Ī dreamscape of exasperated coaches whose striped shirts shifted with barely perceptible For more than 30 years, in more than 300 newspapers,īoltinoff kept kids of all ages perplexed with "Hocus-Focus," Track exactly which features people actually look at, Boltinoff would beĪ household name and Maureen Dowd would be selling pretzels atįedEx Field. York Times found room to mourn the death of Boltinoff.īut in a just world, in a world where newspapers, like web sites, could Section in the country, not even the media-heavy death notices of the New In the words of a daughter, "just a very, very kind man." No other obituary Paragraphs that, among other things, the legendary newspaperman had onceĭrawn a Wall Street cartoon entitled "Stoker the Broker," and that he was, Of those two, the HoustonĬhronicle dispatched Boltinoff in four short sentences. ![]() States bothered to mention the passing of Henryġ9 at his home in Lake Worth, Florida. The newspaper game really is that only two journals in the United It's a measure of just how meretricious, dishonorable, and self-deluded
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