Julia Reischel
Articles
Jul. 6, 2010
Eurasian water chestnut. Photo via the Rhode Island Natural History Survey.
The town of Esopus has fixed its brand-new water-chestnut-harvesting machine, and is ready to play grim reaper to the ever-present invasive plant that chokes the shallow waters... Read more
Jul. 6, 2010
... Jamal Colon, from Monticello. He sustained a bullet wound during his Independence Day celebration, and to hear the Times Herald-Record tell is, his methods were almost guaranteed to endanger life and limb:
Jamal Colon, 31, told police he placed a... Read more
Jul. 5, 2010
Adam Bosch at the Times Herald-Record busted out a calculator and figured out exactly how much money New York City loses each day because of the acqueduct leak in Wawarsing. The answer? It ain't cheap:
In 2010, New York City charged its residents $2.61... Read more
Jul. 5, 2010
Another week, another fire. This time, a pizzeria in Woodridge burned to the ground in a very smoky blaze yesterday, injuring five firefighters in the process, according to the Times Herald-Record.
Woodridge Pizza & Cafe was apparently a beloved... Read more
Jul. 1, 2010
Site of accident, on Route 28 near Canada Hollow Road between Margaretville and Andes.
A section of Route 28 was shut down briefly earlier in the evening after an accident just outside of Margaretville. Unofficial reports from a grapevine of police-... Read more
Jul. 1, 2010
From David Knudsen:
Yesterday (June 30th) the Senate finally got around to voting through a temporary reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program through Sept. 30th. So deals that have been stuck in limbo and not able to close due to the... Read more
Jul. 1, 2010
Accusations of racism are flying in Cobleskill this week, after Cobleskill Highway Superintendent Tom Fissell sent out a late-night, town-wide email blasting Mayor Mark Nadeau and Supervisor Tom Murray for using the N-word. Yes, that N-word.
From the... Read more
Jul. 1, 2010
The Times Herald-Record and the Daily Freeman are reporting that Jeffrey W. Kayes, the driver of a dump truck that sparked an enormous fire on Rte. 9W in the town of Esopus on Tuesday, is facing criminal charges. The Record reports that those charges are... Read more
Jun. 30, 2010
Scott Haefner, a San Francisco-based photographer who specializes in 360-degree panoramic images of abandoned places, recently turned his lens on the Grossinger's hotel near Liberty, NY. While he was there, he got took a panoramic portrait of the now-... Read more
Jun. 30, 2010
Video of yesterday's fire posted by YouTube user Aylazon.
The inferno in the town of Esopus yesterday was nightmarish -- the flames were so hot that they melted a natural gas pipeline buried underground, according to the Daily Freeman. (They also... Read more
Jun. 29, 2010
Hanging laundry out to dry has a spiritual dimension, writes Schoharie-based farmer Shannon Hayes in an essay in Yes! Magazine. (The New York Times did a great profile of Hayes in 2007.)
Hayes is already a prolific cookbook author ("The Grassfed Gourmet... Read more
Jun. 28, 2010
David Knudsen, a Sullivan County realtor and blogger, addresses the issue of how to talk about real estate in a county that might soon become the home of multiple gas wells:
One of the problems we face at the moment in Sullivan County is that the media... Read more
Jun. 28, 2010
Current deputy mayor Patrick O'Donnell is stepping down "within six weeks," according to the Times Herald-Record, and so far the only person to express interest in the job is Pete Healey, a nemesis of the current mayor:
One potential candidate has... Read more
Jun. 28, 2010
Daily News correspondent Paul Schultz spends a day fishing the East and West branches of the Delaware and talking up the virtues of summer fishing in the Catskills:
The good news, though, is that three streams in Sullivan and Delaware Counties — the... Read more
Jun. 25, 2010
In the town of Shawangunk, you can't have a farm on less than ten acres, according to the town's zoning law. That means that Linda Borghi, who wants to do intensive biodynamic farming on her 2.7 acre plot on Saxton Rd., is out of luck, according to the... Read more
Jun. 25, 2010
The problem of too few slaughterhouses is being addressed, at a glacial pace, in Liberty. According to the Times Herald-Record, a much-delayed slaughterhouse is finally nearing a ground-breaking. That is, as long as the feds pony up almost a million... Read more
Jun. 25, 2010
What kind of person intentionally runs over a mother swan while her cygnets look on in horror? Especially on a golf course called the Lazy Swan? (The mama swan survived.)
Via the Daily Freeman.
Jun. 25, 2010
If it rains this weekend, the town of Roxbury could have another Woodstock on its hands.
“That's the joke,” said John Burrows, the owner of Stone Tavern Farm, which is hosting the Desiderata festival, an annual celebration of arts and electronic music,... Read more
Jun. 24, 2010
Another day, another breathless New York Times article about someone's dream cabin in the Catskills. Yesterday, it was Delhi's turn to be feted with a 16-photo slideshow (check out the Delhi sweatshirt in slide 13) about Sandra Foster's hunting-cabin-... Read more
Jun. 24, 2010
Three seniors at Windham-Ashland-Jewett Central School won't be attending graduation tomorrow and might face jail time for painting "2010" with red house paint all over the school grounds, the Daily Mail reports:
While much of the paint was subsequently... Read more