Julia Reischel
Articles
Oct. 21, 2010
The first of 56 UV-irradiating steel-disinfection chambers being installed in the DEP's new ultraviolet Disinfection Facility in Westchester County. Photo via the DEP's Facebook page.
Beginning in 2012, all the water from the Catskills-Delaware... Read more
Oct. 21, 2010
An outdoor wood boiler, photographed by Flickr user julianmeade.
After a long, hot summer of discontent, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has given up on outlawing old outdoor wood boilers. The agency is rolling out regulations... Read more
Oct. 20, 2010
This just in from the Schoharie County Sheriff's Office: A motorcyclist driving on Rte. 10 in the town of Jefferson this afternoon struck a guardrail and was ejected into a 40-foot ravine. The driver was 47-year-old Maurizio Segatto of Schenectady. He... Read more
Oct. 20, 2010
Christopher Palmatier, from the Otsego County town of Worcester, has been arrested by the Schoharie County Sheriff's Office for allegedly raping an underage girl.
According to a press release from the Schoharie County Sheriff's Office, which you can read... Read more
Oct. 20, 2010
Government-hating Stone Ridge resident Richard Ulloa, who spent last year demanding trillions of dollars from various banks and government officials who had crossed him, is in jail again this week. Ulloa was arrested in June on four counts of mail fraud... Read more
Oct. 20, 2010
In the second Saugerties fatality this week, 56-year-old Edward M. Hayes was found dead in his driveway, pinned underneath his own car. According to a press release from the State Police, Hayes was found yesterday afternoon:
The New York State Police –... Read more
Oct. 19, 2010
Hinchey caught on tape by YNN telling Freeman reporter William Kemble to "shut up."
Over the weekend, Daily Freeman correspondent William J. Kemble catapulted to fame among political wonks nationwide when he and Congressman Maurice Hinchey came close to... Read more
Oct. 19, 2010
An unnamed woman died yesterday after crashing into a school bus van on Kings Highway around 3pm, the AP is reporting.
The Freeman has video and more details.
Update: The crash victim has been identified as 45-year-old Denise Ames of Saugerties.
Oct. 18, 2010
Belleayre Mountain and the German-American Club of the Northern Catskills hosting their annual Oktoberfest celebration last Saturday. Photo by Mary McKeon.
Oct. 17, 2010
Last night, the streets of Saugerties were crawling with zombies. (You can thank the tireless zombie organizer Cruella Moxham for that.) Our correspondent Kitty Sheehan armed herself with a bat and a digital camera and walked among the walking dead... Read more
Oct. 16, 2010
The Schoharie County Sheriff's Office responded to a barn fire in the town of Sharon this morning at the Magnolia Run Equestrian Center. A two-story stable/apartment building was completely destroyed, but several horses and 49-year-old Brian Funk escaped... Read more
Oct. 16, 2010
Yesterday, the Schoharie County Sheriff's Office arrested 23-year-old Christopher Daughtery of Fulton for allegedly burning down a barn full of hay in the town of Wright on September 30. Here's a copy of the press release:
Doughtery press release --... Read more
Oct. 15, 2010
The juiciest part of U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey's appearance at a Saugerties forum last night didn't get caught on tape. After the cameras were turned off and packed up, YNN's Capital Tonight reports, Daily Freeman reporter William J. Kemble was... Read more
Oct. 15, 2010
WGXC was onhand last night during a forum for county-wide candidates in Greene County, and got tape of the entire evening. Four candidates running for the county treasurer and county judge seats attended and spoke: judicial candidates David Woodin and... Read more
Oct. 15, 2010
Last night's debate in Saugerties between incumbent Democratic congressman Maurice Hinchey and his Republican challenger George Phillips had some cute moments. At one point, Hinchey, who was asked about the federal deficit, feigned confusion about... Read more
Oct. 15, 2010
Photo of the crowd at last night's meeting by Qortni Medovichova, via Facebook.
A long-awaited town board meeting was packed to the gills last night with protesters angry about Sidney's recent star turn in a national scandal over a small Muslim... Read more
Oct. 14, 2010
Democratic nominee for Catskill town justice Michael Smith didn't file his paperwork for his candidacy correctly, a judge has ruled, according to the Daily Mail:
A decision made Wednesday by Albany County Court Judge Joseph C. Teresi has ordered town of... Read more
Oct. 14, 2010
Hernani Dias and Madalyn Warren put the finishing touches on a worm composter at the Andes Sprouts Society in August.
In the mountains, you never know who is hiding out in the next hollow over. It could be a fourth-generation dairy farmer, a Sufi worship... Read more
Oct. 13, 2010
You know a local scandal has gotten big when the Associated Press is the first news outlet to report on a breaking development. This afternoon, the AP reported that the attorney for the town of Sidney has informed the embattled local Sufi center, Osmanlı... Read more
Oct. 13, 2010
Sherry Bush, a 60-year-old nurse who worked for the ARC of Delaware County, was killed in March when a car travelling in the wrong lane on Rte. 10 in Hamden struck her car head-on.
Now, the driver of that car, Joshua T. Simpson of Masonville, has been... Read more