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...
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Snowmobile racer life-flighted to Robert Packer Hospital after scary accident at Skyview Drags
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...
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Snowmobile Association Event a Great Success
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...
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Arctic lab to use undergrads' electric sled
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...
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Snowmobile fund shouldn’t be used to patch state gap, local officials say
By BRYON ACKERMAN Observer-Dispatch Posted Mar 14, 2010 @ 05:52 PM 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...
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Despite court rulings, Old Mountain Road remains off limits to snowmobilers
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.....
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Man falls off sled, killed by trailing sled
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...
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Snowmobile accident claims life of Smithville man
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...
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Snowmobiles strike trees, killing Long Island resident
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...
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Man id'd in snowmobile fatalityMan id'd in snowmobile fatality
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...
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