Julia Reischel
Articles
May. 9, 2012
Dear Editor,
What is wrong with Onteora?
The Onteora budget is unnecessarily wasteful and caused by many bad decisions made by the current Board of Education. Although the budget is reduced 1.7%, enrollment is down 2.3 %. In other words, Onteora’s per... Read more
May. 9, 2012
Dear Editor,
I write this to the voters to remind you to vote on May 15th, from 2-9 at your local elementary school. I especially hope that you are planning to vote for me and Cybele Nielsen, but regardless, please take the time to cast your ballot... Read more
May. 9, 2012
Dear Editor: I am glad that other members of the community have stepped up for the positions of Onteora School Board trustee currently held by myself and Laurie Osmond; after three years of uncontested elections, it was easy to presume that nobody wanted... Read more
May. 9, 2012
Dear Editor,
I am writing this letter in support of Rebecca Balzac, a candidate for the Onteora Board of Education. I have known Rebecca since 2005, when we moved our family up to this area full time. Rebecca and I first met at the Olive library where... Read more
May. 9, 2012
Dear Editor,
The current Onteora school board has acted irresponsibly with our students’ education and with taxpayer dollars, throwing money at a short-term fix that reconfigures the K-6 schools based on an unproven model that they “hope” will improve... Read more
May. 7, 2012
In the Catskills this year, Memorial Day is going to be epic.
For the first time in history, four of the six west-of-Hudson New York City reservoirs will be open to boating and paddling for the masses. A new bike event will bring the spirit of the Tour... Read more
Apr. 24, 2012
There's snow on the high peaks this morning, and we've got the photos to prove it. Above is the scene outside WP headquarters in New Kingston around 7:30am. (Our poor peas and garlic shoots!)
Do you have a photo of the year's first snow? Share it with us... Read more
Apr. 23, 2012
Top: Schoharie Central School students and staff receive the top prize in Samsung's Solve for Tomorrow grant contest in Washington, D.C. From left to right: David Steel, EVP of Corporate Strategy, Samsung Electronics North America; Tanner Stone,... Read more
Apr. 21, 2012
Above: By 10:30am this morning, a big crowd was strolling Main Street Margaretville. Click to see a slideshow of images from today's GardenFest. Photos by Julia Reischel and Terry Doyle.
Margaretville celebrated spring today with the village's first... Read more
Apr. 18, 2012
Above: It's really spring: The forsythia is blooming in the Catskills. Photo of forsythia (alas, not in the Catskills) by Seha bs, via Wikimedia Commons.
Give a Catskills town a chance to celebrate spring and it'll do it with gusto. The village of... Read more
Apr. 9, 2012
The Catskills are catnip for artists, and have been ever since Thomas Cole painted his first majestic waterfall. Filmmaker David Becker is the latest aesthete to respond to the lure of the mountains, and he's making a whole film about the subject. In his... Read more
Apr. 4, 2012
The Catskills are full of summer camps, one for every ethnicity. Carolyn Simmons of West Laurels, NY visited a Russian summer camp called OTRADNOYE in Swan Lake, Sullivan County back in 2009. The camp's brightly-colored campus was deserted when she was... Read more
Apr. 4, 2012
To the editor:
Schoharie and Otsego counties are in my new Congressional District, the 19th C.D. Dutchess County is also in our 19th C.D., so we have the pleasure of being in the same C.D. as that wonderful progressive Joel Tyner, a 5 term Dutchess... Read more
Apr. 3, 2012
Above: A juvenile American eel, sometimes called a "glass eel." Photo via the NY DEC website.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conversation announced today that the number of migrating American eels in the Hudson River may break some... Read more
Mar. 27, 2012
Above: Clouds? Smoke signals? A viral guerilla marketing campaign? Photo by Flickr user Sundve.
On Thursday, I'll be speaking at a workshop about building a marketing plan for your business (and getting the best bang for your buck out of it) in Stamford... Read more
Mar. 23, 2012
The Bread and Puppet Theater. Photo by Jack Sumberg, via the Bread and Puppet website.
Revolution has been in the air all year, and in the village of Catskill, it's in all the shop windows. The Wall Street to Main Street project is a combination art... Read more