Julia Reischel
Articles
Aug. 11, 2010
Greene County historian David Dorpfeld explains the provenance of one of Greene County's odder town names in the Daily Mail:
Coxsackie is an interesting name to speculate about. I recently talked to a woman who told me that, as a teenager, upon hearing... Read more
Aug. 11, 2010
Fall into a lake, drunk. It happened to Amelia McDonell-Parry, who describes her recent bout with a local body of water on TheFrisky.com:
When I woke up, I have a vague memory of standing, assessing my surroundings, and attempting to make my way back to... Read more
Aug. 11, 2010
The five SUNY Delhi students who make up the school's culinary team were feted on the school's campus yesterday after winning a national championship at the American Culinary Federation's annual convention last week. The video above, featuring SUNY... Read more
Aug. 11, 2010
The Corbin Hill Road Farm, a new kind of community-supported-agriculture project that brings poor South Bronx residents affordable produce from Schoharie County farms, starred in another article today. (The New York Times profiled the venture back in... Read more
Aug. 11, 2010
A driver who didn't notice that his garbage truck's rear gate was up left a Godzilla-like trail of destruction across New Paltz this morning. Among the casualties: a bunch of power lines and a lot of trash. From the Times Herald-Record.
Aug. 11, 2010
So far, there's a website and plans for billboards to go up on Route 17 in Sullivan county, according to the Sullivan County Democrat:
Yesterday, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy, Gasland the Movie, and EarthJustice jointly... Read more
Aug. 10, 2010
How do you fill a row of empty storefronts in a small town? You could offer economic incentives or be generous with your zoning laws. Or, if you're the town of Roxbury, in Delaware County, you could invite teams of designers to give the stores makeovers... Read more
Aug. 9, 2010
The New York Times golf columnist, Bill Pennington, has written a rapturous blog post about the Rip Van Winkle Country Club golf course in Palenville. The gist is that size, when it comes to golf courses, shouldn't matter.
You see, the Rip is a nine-hole... Read more
Aug. 9, 2010
When it's shot by a police officer in the town of Ulster, that is. Via the Daily Freeman.
Aug. 8, 2010
The DEP is losing patience with Phoenicia, which is still dithering about whether or not to build a wastewater treatment plant. The Daily Freeman reports that the DEP has threatened to withdraw $17.2 millions in funding from the project, and that the... Read more
Aug. 8, 2010
On Friday, Governor David Paterson signed a law that aims to limit water pollution. Amazingly, it had nothing to do with fracking. From the Messenger Post:
Watershed groups Friday announced Gov. David Paterson has signed Senate Bill 3780-A, which... Read more
Aug. 7, 2010
A former Ellenville junkyard which has been declared a Superfund site is on the federal Environmental Protection Agency's agenda this month.
Once Ellenville Scap Iron and Metal, the site is now 24 acres of leaking car batteries, heavy metals, and known... Read more
Aug. 7, 2010
Congressman Scott Murphy, who represents most of the Catkills region in the U.S. House of Representatives, is putting his weight behind a very specific cause: cell phone service in the Delaware County town of Andes.
He issued a press release yesterday in... Read more
Aug. 6, 2010
Since the surprising passage of a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing by the New York Senate on Tuesday night, the political chess pieces have been moving around the board.
Our own Catskills-area state senator John Bonacic, who reversed his previous pro-... Read more
Aug. 6, 2010
Bovina blogger The Wild Rabbit Goes Catskills found a couple of kittens yesterday, which she's hoping to give to a good home.
Aug. 6, 2010
Kingston Citizens reports that there is a new foreclosure hotline in Kingston:
If you are having a problem with a neighboring foreclosed property, there is a new hotline number for property complaints that citizens should feel free to use. That number is... Read more
Aug. 6, 2010
A scary, official-looking letter was sent to a woman in the Bronx after she signed a petition supporting a candidate running against state senator Pedro Espada. The New York Times' City Room blog has the story:
In bold-face capital letters, it read “... Read more
Aug. 5, 2010
Although Walker Valley in Ulster County was recently the scene of some unpleasantness about small-scale farms, it looks like Acorn Hill Farm is doing well enough to need some extra hands. The farm just posted a job listing for a capable, heavy-load-... Read more