Officials seek changes after Catskill hiker deaths

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HAINES FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — Local officials are calling for safety changes at a popular waterfall in the Catskills after two women died there on separate occasions this summer.

Hunter Town Supervisor Daryl Legg tells the Kingston Daily Freeman (http://bit.ly/1B8tuNL ) that the state Department of Environmental Conservation is making some short-term fixes at 260-foot-high Kaaterskill Falls. He said the agency had a ranger near the lower falls to talk to visitors.

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