Julia Reischel
Articles
Aug. 21, 2014
A Schoharie County 911 dispatcher guided an expectant father, Rudy de Vries, through the first steps of delivering a baby at home on Wednesday, August 20, after his wife, Amber, went into labor too quickly to make it to the hospital.
911 dispatcher... Read more
Aug. 20, 2014
Above: Catskill Mountain Railroad equipment repairing a portion of the track on the old Delaware & Ulster corridor last week. Photo by John Marino and posted on the CMRR's Facebook page.
In the long-running battle of rails versus trails in Ulster... Read more
Aug. 18, 2014
Above: A video of the blaze that killed a three-year-old boy in Liberty on Sunday, August 17. Source: Vos Iz Neias News.
A three-year-old Orthodox Jewish boy from Brooklyn died in a fire in a Liberty bungalow colony last night, according to the New York... Read more
Aug. 18, 2014
Above: "Volks-Deutsche Jungen in U.S.A.," a film by the Deutsche-Amerikanische Berufsgemeinschaft (DAB) about a DAB Nazi summer camp for boys in Windham in 1937.
In the summer of 1937, the Greene County town of Windham was home to a Nazi summer camp,... Read more
Aug. 15, 2014
Above: A sky lantern, a paper-and-bamboo balloon with a wax fuel source at the bottom, being released in England in 2010. Photo by Flickr user Keith Williamson.
Revelers at summer gatherings in the Catskills are sending flaming airborne balloons over... Read more
Aug. 14, 2014
Above: State assembly member Aileen Gunther poses with an American flag made out of bagels made by the Monticello Bagel Bakery. Photo via the Monticello Bagel Bakery's Facebook page.
Head to the self-proclaimed "Bagel Capital" -- the village of... Read more
Aug. 14, 2014
Above: Video footage of Monticello mayor Gordon Jenkins ranting and throwing a clock while in a booking room on a drunk driving arrest in November 2013. (Be warned, there's a lot of profanity.)
The Sullivan County village of Monticello has a reputation... Read more
Aug. 13, 2014
Above: Campaign photos for Robert Blain and Michelle Blain. Source: The Town of Prattsville Republican Party Facebook page.
Robert J. Blain, who had served as a justice of the Town of Prattsville Court since 1987, resigned abruptly in June, as did his... Read more
Aug. 12, 2014
John, who goes by the name Catskills Photography on Flickr, snapped this shot of Sunday's extra-large moon in Monticello and shared it in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
A supermoon occurs when the full moon is closest to earth in its orbit. The most... Read more
Aug. 12, 2014
Above: A post from the Albany office of the National Weather Service's Facebook page today.
Parts of the Catskills could get "torrential" rainfall of as much to 1 to 2 inches per hour tonight, according to the National Weather Service.
The eastern... Read more
Aug. 12, 2014
Dive teams, firefighters, and first responders mobbed the Esopus Creek in the Ulster County village of Phoenicia on Sunday afternoon in what turned out to be a wild goose chase.
A report of an injured person in the creek on August 10 prompted a massive... Read more
Aug. 11, 2014
Above: The Schoharie Creek. Photo via catskillstreams.org.
A 73-year-old Rotterdam man went fishing in the Schoharie County town of Esperance on Saturday, August 9 and never came home, according to a press release from the Schoharie County Sheriff's... Read more
Aug. 11, 2014
A New York State Parole Officer killed his estranged wife and her boyfriend in his Palenville house on Sunday, August 10, and then led police on a multi-county car chase before killing himself, according to a New York State Police press release issued... Read more
Aug. 11, 2014
An incident in the Greene County hamlet of Palenville brought helicopters and police to 844 Pennsylvania Avenue on August 10 to investigate a possible shooting and homicide, according to the Daily Mail, Daily Freeman, and the New York State Police. ... Read more
Aug. 9, 2014
Pro mountain bikers from around the world are competing on the slopes of Windham Mountain this weekend as part of the Union Cyclist Internationale (UCI) Mountain Bike World Cup.
Today, the elite event was the men's and women's Cross Country Eliminator... Read more
Aug. 8, 2014
Above: Grandpa Woodstock in happier times. Photo by Flickr user flat-outcrazy.
Woodstock's 70-year-old hippie icon, Grandpa Woodstock, was arrested on Friday, August 8 on charges of selling marijuana and controlled substances out of an apartment at 135... Read more
Aug. 8, 2014
A 26-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of a two-year-old Marlborough boy, according to a press release from the New York State Police.
The man, Kenneth M. Stahli (left) of Milton, allegedly abused the... Read more
Aug. 8, 2014
Brace yourselves: The Catskills are having their biggest moment since the height of the Borscht Belt resorts in the '50s.
Hudson Valley Magazine has dedicated its entire August issue to the region, declaring that "The Catskills Are Back," and featuring... Read more
Aug. 7, 2014
The Route 23 bridge in Catskill will be one lane only on Friday and next week as the New York State Department of Transportation resurfaces it, according to a travel advisory issued by the DOT:
Motorists are advised that the New York State Department of... Read more
Aug. 7, 2014
The Delaware County Fair, the Catskills' annual bacchanal of butter statuary, demolition derbies, livestock, and country pride, kicks off Monday, August 11, and runs through Saturday, August 16.
The Delaware County Fair. August 11 - 16. Walton... Read more