Julia Reischel
Articles
Apr. 24, 2012
There's snow on the high peaks this morning, and we've got the photos to prove it. Above is the scene outside WP headquarters in New Kingston around 7:30am. (Our poor peas and garlic shoots!)
Do you have a photo of the year's first snow? Share it with us... Read more
Apr. 23, 2012
Top: Schoharie Central School students and staff receive the top prize in Samsung's Solve for Tomorrow grant contest in Washington, D.C. From left to right: David Steel, EVP of Corporate Strategy, Samsung Electronics North America; Tanner Stone,... Read more
Apr. 21, 2012
Above: By 10:30am this morning, a big crowd was strolling Main Street Margaretville. Click to see a slideshow of images from today's GardenFest. Photos by Julia Reischel and Terry Doyle.
Margaretville celebrated spring today with the village's first... Read more
Apr. 18, 2012
Above: It's really spring: The forsythia is blooming in the Catskills. Photo of forsythia (alas, not in the Catskills) by Seha bs, via Wikimedia Commons.
Give a Catskills town a chance to celebrate spring and it'll do it with gusto. The village of... Read more
Apr. 9, 2012
The Catskills are catnip for artists, and have been ever since Thomas Cole painted his first majestic waterfall. Filmmaker David Becker is the latest aesthete to respond to the lure of the mountains, and he's making a whole film about the subject. In his... Read more
Apr. 4, 2012
The Catskills are full of summer camps, one for every ethnicity. Carolyn Simmons of West Laurels, NY visited a Russian summer camp called OTRADNOYE in Swan Lake, Sullivan County back in 2009. The camp's brightly-colored campus was deserted when she was... Read more
Apr. 4, 2012
To the editor:
Schoharie and Otsego counties are in my new Congressional District, the 19th C.D. Dutchess County is also in our 19th C.D., so we have the pleasure of being in the same C.D. as that wonderful progressive Joel Tyner, a 5 term Dutchess... Read more
Apr. 3, 2012
Above: A juvenile American eel, sometimes called a "glass eel." Photo via the NY DEC website.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conversation announced today that the number of migrating American eels in the Hudson River may break some... Read more
Mar. 27, 2012
Above: Clouds? Smoke signals? A viral guerilla marketing campaign? Photo by Flickr user Sundve.
On Thursday, I'll be speaking at a workshop about building a marketing plan for your business (and getting the best bang for your buck out of it) in Stamford... Read more
Mar. 23, 2012
The Bread and Puppet Theater. Photo by Jack Sumberg, via the Bread and Puppet website.
Revolution has been in the air all year, and in the village of Catskill, it's in all the shop windows. The Wall Street to Main Street project is a combination art... Read more
Mar. 23, 2012
British R&B master James Hunter is playing in a quiet corner of Sullivan County tonight to raise money for the anti-fracking efforts of Catskills Citizens for Safe Energy. At $20 a pop, the entrance fee is a steal to see Hunter, who was nominated for... Read more
Mar. 22, 2012
Above: Carl Chipman, supervisor of the town of Rochester, and Art Snyder, the director of Ulster County Emergency Management, displaying a map of Rochester Chipman used during Irene to coordinate emergency response at the disaster officials workship this... Read more
Mar. 21, 2012
Above: Matthew Avitabile coordinating volunteers at the Middleburgh Municipal Offices five days after Tropical Storm Irene flooded Main Street Middleburgh in Schoharie County. Photo by Marty Rosen for the Watershed Post.
A 25-year-old who earned his... Read more
Mar. 20, 2012
Wondering where the brillant art in the windows of businesses in Margaretville, Arkville and Fleischmanns this month came from? Look no further than Margaretville Central School, where artists from every grade level competed to have their creations... Read more
Mar. 16, 2012
Above: The Old Blenheim Bridge in 2008. Photo by cg-realms at en.wikipedia, via Wikimedia Commons.
The Mountain Eagle writes this week that Paul Loether, the head of the National Register of Historic Places, has promised that the federal government won'... Read more