Linked below are a few news items, editorials and other documents by Tom Rue which appeared years in The River Reporter, concerning police agencies, race relations, and civil rights in Monticello, New York.

10-05-2005 - Questions about '92 racial incident still unanswered - opinion column
01-08-1998 - Police shoot at two armed gunmen in Monticello... one dead, another injured
12-11-1997 - Sheriff Wasser honored by 700 well-wishers at retirement dinner
11-06-1997 - "Don't push us out," NAACP asks
08-07-1997 - Village approves $65,000 payout in brutality case
02-27-1997 - Afro-American family day draws a crowd
02-13-1997 - Poet and counselor Genetha Armstrong is honored with Douglass award
01-30-1997 - Black History Month activity day and contest
01-23-1997 - New complaint filed against Monticello police, with complaint
01-23-1997 - Sheriff Joseph Wasser meets with Human Rights Commission
12-05-1997 - Monticello police invite public to ride along
11-28-1996 - Jury clears Monticello policeman
11-21-1996 - Human Rights Commission hears brutality complaint
10-24-1996 - Human Rights Commission denies getting complaints -- but three were filed
10-24-1996 - Monticello detective commended
10-17-1996 - York apologizes for remark about "Jewish people"
10-17-1996 - A family that came apart - editorial on Black/Jewish race relations by Pam Chergotis
10-10-1996 - "Legalized lynching" enrages activists
07-11-1996 - Human rights budget slashed
07-11-1996 - Brennan issues denial
07-11-1996 - A matter of honor - editorial calling for police chief to resign
02-15-1996 - Liberty senior citizen honored at Douglass breakfast
11-23-1995 - Rights commissioner arrested, charges quickly dropped
11-23-1995 - Freedom from hunger said a "human right" in Monticello
11-16-1995 - Rights chief cites "civil rights problem, with chair's letter to U.S. Attorney
11-08-1995 - Sign carriers settle for $95,000 in Federal court - the 'Monticello Five'
10-26-1995 - Sullivan man one in a million
10-12-1995 - Sullivan residents join "Million Man March"
09-14-1995 - Scholarship in memory of a fallen hero
08-31-1995 - Candidates eat chicken at book-signing
08-24-1995 - Rights commissioner complains of harassment
08-17-1995 - The black community vs. the PD--time for changes - guest opinion by Bill Brown, PhD
07-20-1995 - "Out damned spot, out I say!" - guest opinion by Josephine Finn, Esq.
07-20-1995 - HRC and NAACP join in denouncing racist hate literature
06-15-1995 - Human Rights Commission marks two years
04-20-1995 - Friedland apologizes for racist remark -- won't resign
02-23-1995 - Black History Month gives hope for inter-racial unity
02-16-1995 - ASAALH honors founder of local Masonic lodge
12-31-1992 - No one should be exempt - editorial, calling for a Monticello human rights commission
02-27-1986 - Paul Robeson, Jr. speaks at Sullivan County Community College