FALLSBURG – The news spread like wildfire across town last Thursday when the story broke that morning. Tom Nolan, a 39-year-old social studies teacher in the Ellenville Central School District, was arrested by the New York State Police out of Liberty on October 22. He was charged with rape in the third degree and endangering the welfare of a child, a class E felony and a misdemeanor, respectively. The victim in the case was a female 16-year-old student in the Ellenville Central School District. Nolan was formerly the coach of girls' basketball and girls' golf at Ellenville High School, but stepped down from his coaching responsibilities before the fall 2009 season.

Nolan was arraigned in the Town of Fallsburg court, and posted the $25,000 bail.     > MORE