Julia Reischel
Articles
Mar. 12, 2013
Above: Evenden Tower at SUNY Delhi. Photo from a photo tour of the SUNY Delhi campus on the college's website.
This story was updated at 2:25pm.
SUNY Delhi received a bomb threat that locked down the tallest building on campus this morning, according to... Read more
Mar. 12, 2013
Deposit Community Theatre and Performing Arts Center, located at 14B Front St. in Deposit. Photo by Mike Musante.
It's not easy being a 76-year-old movie theater in the Catskills. The movie palace in Deposit, which showed its first film in 1937, was a... Read more
Mar. 8, 2013
Schools are closed across the Catskills this Friday morning, and it looks like a snow globe out there. The Hudson Valley Weather Facebook page reports that the snowfall ranges from 1 to 10 inches deep across the region.
We want proof! Share your snow... Read more
Mar. 6, 2013
Above: The location of the new cell phone tower in Arkville. Screenshot from SBA Communications' SBA Sites mapping tool.
A new cellphone tower in Arkville is live and broadcasting Verizon 4G LTE service across the village of Margaretville and the rest... Read more
Feb. 22, 2013
Above: The abandoned Apollo Mall in Monticello, New York, photographed on February 20, 2013. Photo by Catskills Photography and shared in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
Bottom: A short video about the Apollo Mall posted on Dead Malls.com.
The former... Read more
Feb. 21, 2013
One of the two people found dead in a burning house on a dead-end road in Walton on Tuesday was 48-year-old Debra S. Sundstrom, according to a press release from the New York State Police.
A forensic pathologist at Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton has... Read more
Feb. 11, 2013
Above: A photo of Doyle at WIOX 91.3FM's studio in 2011. Photo by Simona David, via the WIOX Facebook page.
Terry Doyle, a Catskills reporter and radio show host who was a widely-known fixture of the local music community, died last week.
Doyle died... Read more
Feb. 7, 2013
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Feb. 7, 2013
This winter's cold temperatures made a Catskills tradition possible last Saturday at the Hanford Mills Museum in East Meredith: the annual ice harvest. Eight solid inches of ice on Hanford's mill pond was plenty sturdy enough for volunteers and visitors... Read more
Feb. 5, 2013
Above: The Catskill Brewery on January 25, as workers were finishing up the welding and starting on the outside walls. Photo by Suzanne BeVier. Used with permission.
Breweries and distilleries are popping up like mushrooms all over the Sullivan County... Read more
Feb. 2, 2013
Above: Ice on the mill pond at the Hanford Mills Museum -- thick enough to be scored for harvesting yesterday. Photo via the Hanford Mills Museum's Facebook page.
Despite this week's warm weather, Peg Odell of the Hanford Mills Museum tells us this... Read more
Feb. 1, 2013
Astronomer and Woodstock local Bob Berman visited Bennett Intermediate School in Boiceville on January 30, bringing meteorites and a spectroscope to Bennett's after-school science club.
Berman is the author of The Sun's Heartbeat and other astronomy... Read more
Jan. 25, 2013
Above: Video of Ted Blazer's comments to the Catskills at the Boiceville Inn last night. Apologies for the extremely fuzzy video quality. Video shot by Julia Reischel.
Ted Blazer, the CEO of the Olympic Regional Development Authority, visited the... Read more
Jan. 22, 2013
Delaware County's finest eels will be featured on the Cooking Channel this Thursday, along with the county's resident eel whisperer Ray Turner, the owner of Delaware Delicacies Smokehouse in Hancock, and Ed O'Neill, the chef and co-owner of the Andes... Read more