Julia Reischel
Articles
Mar. 16, 2015
A man was badly burned in a series of explosions in a garage on Route 30 just outside of the village of Margaretville in Delaware County on Monday, March 16. In between blasts, two of the man’s neighbors, Allen Misner and Cody Ackerly, helped drag him to... Read more
Mar. 13, 2015
Above: Jim Gateley standing in the wreckage of his home a few days after it was destroyed. On March 13, 1990, leaking propane from a pipeline exploded in a massive fireball that engulfed the village of Blenheim. Gateley, who was in his house during the... Read more
Mar. 12, 2015
Above: (Left to right) Patty Rudge and Taylor Diepold, both from Shandaken, Jason Stanton from Bovina, and Jo Bernhardt from Margaretville, on March 6, before begining their combined 25-mile swim. Photo by Beth Waterman.
On Friday, March 6, five intrepid... Read more
Mar. 12, 2015
Above: Students at Delaware Academy in Delhi celebrate the installation of solar panels at the school's sugarhouse. Photo via Catskill Solar's Facebook page.
In the Catskills, students are tackling climate change in big ways. At Delhi's Delaware Academy... Read more
Mar. 12, 2015
Above: Donna Lewis. Photo by Franco Vogt.
Donna Lewis, the singer who brought us "I Love You Always Forever," a single that was ever-present on the radio in 1996, is coming to Bearsville.
Lewis has a new album, "Brand New Day," that features her... Read more
Mar. 11, 2015
Above: New Environmental Police Officers being sworn in to their jobs patrolling New York City’s upstate watershed, which spans a 2,000-square-mile area, much of it in the Catskills. Photo via the New York City Department of Environmental Protection’s... Read more
Mar. 10, 2015
Above: The seat of Delaware County's government, in Delhi, NY. Photo via the Delaware County website.
New York state’s comptroller has found that Delaware County awarded millions of dollars to third-party contractors between January 1, 2013 and June 9,... Read more
Mar. 9, 2015
Above: A donkey basketball game in action. Photo by Nick Knouse, via Flickr.
A public school in the Catskills is coming under fire for hosting a fundraiser featuring basketball players riding on donkeys.
Margaretville Central School's plans for a "... Read more
Mar. 9, 2015
Above: A bag of heroin. Photo from a series of photographs shot by WBEZ Chicago Public Radio documenting heroin use.
Heroin addiction is sweeping through the Catskills, taking lives with it. (Here at the Watershed Post, we write more crime stories... Read more
Mar. 9, 2015
A man shot a woman twice and then shot himself on the afternoon of Saturday, March 7 in Oneonta, a forensic pathologist has concluded.
The two were found dead outside their rented home in Oneonta on Sunday, March 8, in what police are investigating as a... Read more
Mar. 6, 2015
Above: "Mt. Utsayantha," taken from the top of the Mt. Utsayantha Fire Tower in Stamford by Christopher Mooney, the third-place winner of last year's 2014 Catskills Outdoor Guide Photo Contest.
The contest is closed! Check out all the entries on... Read more
Mar. 6, 2015
A snow plow and two tractor trailers were involved in a series of accidents caused by "speed and poor decisions" at exit 96 on Route 17 in the Sullivan County town of Rockland on Wednesday, according to the New York State Police.
One tractor-trailer... Read more
Mar. 4, 2015
Above: First responders at the corner of Main St. and Court St. in Delhi around 8:20 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4. Photo by Fred Harris.
A fire in a wood-frame building located on a densely-packed block of Main Street Delhi was quickly subdued this... Read more
Mar. 4, 2015
A 49-year-old man who didn’t have a driver’s license repeatedly backed into a police car when Shandaken police tried to stop him from driving drunk in Phoenicia on Monday, March 2, police say.
Kenneth A. Jackson was attempting to drive in an “intoxicated... Read more
Mar. 4, 2015
Above: Hilt and Stella Kelly at the 2014 Fiddlers! Festival in Roxbury. Photograph by Jill Ribich of Catskill Images.
Hilton Kelly, the legendary Catskills fiddler and square dance caller, died on Tuesday, March 3 in Mountainside Residential Care Center... Read more
Mar. 2, 2015
Above: New York State Broadband Program director David Salway, left, talks with Greg Henderson, middle, the owner of the Roxbury Motel, and Angela Liotta, right, the state's Broadband Outreach Director, on Wednesday, Feb. 25. Photo by Julia Reischel.
In... Read more
Mar. 2, 2015
Above: The fire at 43 West Street in Hancock in the early hours of Sunday, March 1. Photo via the Delaware County Fire Wire & Emergency News Facebook page.
For 10 hours on Sunday, March 1, firefighters in the Delaware County village of Hancock... Read more
Mar. 2, 2015
The Schoharie News, an online digital newspaper covering Schoharie County, is becoming a weekly print newspaper.
Left: Tim Knight. Photo by Erika Day.
Tim Knight, the paper's 21-year-old owner, founded the Schoharie News as a digital-only online news... Read more
Feb. 27, 2015
Above: The Dividing Weir Bridge the year it was built, in January 1915. Photo via the NYC DEP's Flickr page.
The bridge that carries Reservoir Road across Ulster County's Ashokan Reservoir, known by the New York City Department of Environmental... Read more
Feb. 26, 2015
Image provided by Spillian.
What do fly fisherman do when trout season is a month away and the temperatures are still deep-freeze cold? At this time of year, reminiscing fondly about being thigh-high in a Catskills stream is about as close to fishing as... Read more