Julia Reischel
Articles
Jan. 11, 2012
Above: It wasn't a white Christmas this year in the Catskills. Photo of a Delaware County dairy farm on Christmas Eve this year by Mark Zilberman, via the Watershed Post Flickr Pool.
After an oddly snow-less winter so far, Mother Nature is going to make... Read more
Jan. 10, 2012
Peter Applebome, the Our Towns columnist at the New York Times, has a nuanced article out this week about how the controversial issue of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has split the environmental movement down the middle, particularly in the... Read more
Jan. 10, 2012
Above: The New York Power Authority's Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped-Storage Power Project in the town of Blenheim in Schoharie County. Photo via the New York Power Authority's website.
At the year's first meeting of the Schoharie County Board of Supervisors... Read more
Jan. 9, 2012
Above: Video coverage of Saturday's "people's hearing" by videographer Jessica Vecchione.
On Saturday, a coalition of anti-fracking groups organized a "people's hearing" to accept public comments about hydraulic fracturing from Catskills residents.
The... Read more
Jan. 4, 2012
Today at 1pm and 3pm on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we come back from a winter vacation with the stories you may have missed while snoozing in front of the fire. Also: A look back at our top stories of 2011.
CLICK TO LISTEN LIVE to today's... Read more
Jan. 3, 2012
Above: "David and Goliath," a cartoon by Gary Mayer showing Mike Hein as a stone-throwing David to NYC's Golaith, which ran on the Watershed Post a year ago.
Maybe Ulster County Executive Mike Hein is a bona-fide upstate firebrand representing the... Read more
Dec. 28, 2011
A horrific murder of a 54-year-old woman made headlines in Ulster County and across the state last week. On December 21, Ann Gaffney was found beaten to death in her home on Old Route 209 in the Town of Hurley.
According to a press release from the New... Read more
Dec. 28, 2011
There's a wind advisory for all five Catskills counties today from the National Weather Service. In Delaware, Ulster, Schoharie, Sullivan, and Greene counties, watch for isolated gusts of 45 to 55 miles per hour, and possible downed trees and power lines... Read more
Dec. 27, 2011
Above: Jeffrey Vollkommer of Delhi and Scott Burns of Bovina. At bottom of post: Clarence Vanier and Melody Vanier of Oneonta. All four were arrested last week and charged with oxycodone possession. Photos from the New York State Police.
Last week's bust... Read more
Dec. 27, 2011
A truck driver drove 40 feet off the New York State Thurway in Rosendale this morning and was flown to Westchester Medical Center with serious leg and chest injuries, according to a New York State Police press release.
Sixty-two-year-old Ralph Rickert,... Read more
Dec. 21, 2011
Today at 1pm and 3pm on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we talk with Ken McCarthy, the founder of rebuild123.org, a website that helps local flood relief organizations use the internet to solicit and receive the exact donations they need.
Also,... Read more
Dec. 20, 2011
Above: "Fungus documenting a 1924 climb to the top of the Hunter Mountain Observatory," from the Mystery Spot's website.
Laura Levine, the proprietress of Phoenicia's Homer & Langley's Mystery Spot Antiques, finds all sorts of treasures in attics,... Read more
Dec. 20, 2011
The Times Herald-Record has the grim story today: One man is dead and two people are injured after a crash near Glen Spey in Sullivan County around 3am this morning.
Sullivan County Sheriff's Office officials suspect that alchohol was involved in an... Read more
Dec. 19, 2011
Above: A slide from a 12/15/11 presentation by the SAGE Commission discussing a potential transfer of Belleayre to ORDA management. Read the full presentation below or by clicking here.
Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration still wants to hand the... Read more
Dec. 17, 2011
Above: A screenshot of the Star-Gazette's map of Tropical Storm Lee contamination in Sidney. Click here to get the the full interactive map.
The Elmira Star-Gazette has published a great piece of journalism this week. The paper has tracked down... Read more
Dec. 14, 2011
This week on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we talk with Dan Viles, the owner of Cable Ad Net, a cable television advertising company that has launched a brand-new over-the-airwaves TV station, WYBN TV 14, from the top of Windham Mountain.... Read more
Dec. 14, 2011
Above: DEP Deputy Commissioner Paul Rush at the Ashokan Reservoir this summer. Photo from the DEP, via Flickr.
The relationship between the New York City Department of Environmental Protection and the upstate communities who live in its watershed is... Read more
Dec. 13, 2011
Top: The new tires on "The USA," Olive's vintage fire truck. Above: A slideshow of photos of "The USA" on Flickr, courtesy of Ralph VanKleeck Jr. Click the photos to view the captions.
Bringing a vintage 1936 Holabird fire truck owned by the town of... Read more
Dec. 12, 2011
Local videographer Jessica Vecchione shot this video at Catskill Cabaradio at the Pine Hill Community Center on Saturday and shared it with us. Center and right are Laurie and Ira McIntosh.
Dec. 9, 2011
Above: A photo from the EPA's draft report of contaminated groundwater being sampled in Pavillion, Wyoming. Note the foam. Photo on page 3 of Appendix D of "Draft: Investigation into Groundwater Contamination in Pavillion, Wyoming."
For the first time, a... Read more