Julia Reischel
Articles
Mar. 31, 2015
Above: The Margaretville Motel, which was slated to receive $1.3 million from New York State after being developed into a Best Western hotel. Plans for the project are now uncertain. Photo by Julia Reischel.
Peter Molnar, a prominent local businessman... Read more
Mar. 28, 2015
A 25-year-old Stamford man jumped out his window and fled into the woods wearing "limited clothing" when probation officers came looking for him about a probation violation on the morning of Friday, March 27, police say.
Jesse E. Papas had no shoes and... Read more
Mar. 27, 2015
Photo by Eric Molina, via Flickr.
After nine months of surveillance and wiretapping, investigators from the New York Attorney General's Office and the New York State Police have arrested a group of 13 people for trafficking heroin in New York and... Read more
Mar. 27, 2015
A series of truck accidents on Route 17 in Sullivan County continues.
On Wednesday, March 25, eastbound Route 17 in the Sullivan County town of Mamakating was closed for an hour after the driver of an Isuzu box truck rear-ended a Mack tractor trailer and... Read more
Mar. 27, 2015
Above: The Cumberland Farms convenience store on Mill Hill Road in Woodstock. Photo via Google Street View.
While Peter Dinnocenzo was managing Woodstock's Cumberland Farms gas station convenience store on Mill Hill Road in Ulster County in 2013 and... Read more
Mar. 26, 2015
Along with maple syrup and the first red blush of buds on the mountainsides, spring is bringing a bloom of new publications devoted to covering the culture, arts and lifestyle of the Catskills — through the eyes of flatlanders.
These days, urbanites are... Read more
Mar. 26, 2015
It's spring, sort of. It's freezing and there's still ice on the ground. The only thing you can do at the end of March, after six months of snow, is laugh.
The Open Eye Theater in Margaretville is hosting a comedy night this Saturday that doubles as a... Read more
Mar. 25, 2015
Alan White, the executive director of the Arkville-based Catskills Center for Conservation and Development, is retiring, according to a press release issued by the CCCD on Wednesday, March 25.
Left: Alan White. Photo via the Catskill Center's website. ... Read more
Mar. 25, 2015
A two-day Main Street Boot Camp conference sponsored by the Arkville-based MARK Project nonprofit attracted 90 attendees each day, according to Peg Ellsworth, the MARK Project's executive director.
The conference, which was held on Monday, March 23 and... Read more
Mar. 25, 2015
The Belleayre Music Festival, which has been held at Belleayre Mountain Ski Center in the Ulster County hamlet of Highmount for 23 summers, will not happen in 2015, said Mel Litoff, the festival's executive and artistic director. It will return after a... Read more
Mar. 24, 2015
New eateries serving fresh doughnuts, Vietnamese banh mi, baklava and cheesy grits have all opened in the mountains this past year or so. From the 2015 Catskills Food Guide, here are some of our favorites.
The doughnuts at Twin Peaks Coffee & Donuts... Read more
Mar. 23, 2015
Key Bank will rebuild its Phoenicia branch, which was destroyed by a fire on Feb. 16, according to a press release issued by the bank on Monday, March 23. The bank estimates that the rebuilding will take several months, and may begin this spring.
In the... Read more
Mar. 20, 2015
Above: An ice rescue training on the Rondout Reservoir on March 10. Photo via the DEP's Flickr page.
March, when the ice of Catskills lakes and reservoirs is the thickest, is the time of year when first responders freshen up their ice rescue skills.
Last... Read more
Mar. 20, 2015
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) wants to regularly release water downstream into the Schoharie Valley for the first time since the Schoharie Reservoir was built in 1927, according to a press release issued by the agency on... Read more
Mar. 19, 2015
Above: A satellite image of Stephen D. Esolen's residence. Esolen buried 20 pounds of plastic explosives nearby, police say. Via Google Earth.
A 24-year-old man stockpiled a large amount of bomb-making material in his home and on another property he had... Read more
Mar. 19, 2015
Above: Aaron Rabiner, a candidate for village trustee in the Sullivan County village of Bloomingburg, in a campaign interview. Rabiner has a two-vote lead on incumbent trustee Katherine Roemer in a tight race that won't be resolved until next week.
It... Read more
Mar. 18, 2015
Photo by Flickr user Vox Efx.
Today, Wednesday, March 18, is Election Day for most New York villages. Village elections in many Catskills villages are sleepy, uncontested affairs, but a few are real contests with full slates of candidates from multiple... Read more
Mar. 17, 2015
A one-year-old child was killed in a mobile home fire at Foxcroft Village in the Sullivan County hamlet of Loch Sheldrake on Tuesday, March 17, according to reports from the Times Herald-Record and the Sullivan County Democrat's Facebook page.
The child... Read more
Mar. 16, 2015
A 56-year-old woman riding on a float in a St. Patrick's Day parade in the Sullivan County hamlet of Rock Hill was killed on Saturday, March 14 after falling off and being run over by a trailer towing a backhoe, according to the New York State Police and... Read more