Julia Reischel
Articles
Dec. 8, 2011
Above: A contractor clearing storm debris from DEP land in Prattsville along the Schoharie Creek. Photo provided by the DEP.
There's a lot happening in the Greene County town of Prattsville. The town, which was walloped by Tropical Storms Irene and Lee... Read more
Dec. 7, 2011
This week on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we talk with Anna Moschovakis and Tianna Kennedy, the founders of Catskills Time, a "local time bank" that aims to build a new system of exhange based on time, not money.
We'll also discuss the big... Read more
Dec. 7, 2011
Above: Natalie Merchant performing at the Shelter for the Storm benefit concert at UPAC on November 18, with Dan Littleton and Chris Wood. Photo by John Desanto, of the Times Herald-Record.
The Watershed Post was proud to be one of the many, many... Read more
Dec. 6, 2011
Flickr user Bahram Foroughi uploaded this epic photo of firefighters in the Ulster County town of Olive to the Watershed Post Flickr group. To see more of Bahrah Foroughi's Olive firefighter photos, look at this set on Flickr.
Dec. 5, 2011
Above: The bridged ravine on Oliverea Road. Photo by Aaron Bennett.
The governor's office announced on Friday that Rte. 23 in Greene County between Prattsville and West Settlement Road is open today. [This post has been changed -- see correction below... Read more
Dec. 3, 2011
Farming in the Catskills isn't easy. There are few amber waves of grain of the kind depicted on your average bank calendar in our rocky hills.
So Madalyn Warren and Tovey Halleck, who manage a farm in Roxbury along with a project called the Andes... Read more
Dec. 2, 2011
On Wednesday, Ulster County Deputy Executive Robert Sudlow told the Daily Freeman that the enormous ravine that Tropical Storm Irene cut through Oliverea Road in Shandaken would open to traffic on Friday (today).
You may remember this ravine from our... Read more
Dec. 2, 2011
Our correspondent Aaron Bennett reports this morning on a dozen signs that have appeared along Oliverea Road in the Big Indian/Oliverea Valley. The signs, which seem to have appeared today, announce that hunters have joined the Occupy Wall Street... Read more
Dec. 2, 2011
Above: Story Laurie groovin' in the garden.
Laurie McIntosh didn’t mean to become a musician. The Andes-based artist (full disclosure: she is a Watershed Post advertiser), began her career as a storyteller, spinning tales for kids at schools and... Read more
Dec. 1, 2011
Above: Jim Eklund stands before freshly slaughtered beef at the Eklund Processing facility in Stamford. Delaware County officials toured the Catskills' new slaughterhouse on November 30, 2011. Click on any photo to read its caption. Photos by Julia... Read more
Nov. 30, 2011
Above: Pamela West-Finkle and her husband Theodore Finkle, as the band Diviner.
This week on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we talk with Pamela West-Finkle, a South Kortright musican and singer-songwriter, about her new Community Music and Arts... Read more
Nov. 29, 2011
Above: The Catskill Mountain Velo Club raising money for a kids' bike fund at the Belleayre Mountain Fall Festival in October. Photo via the Catskills Cycling blog.
Mike Wentland, the brains behind the Catskill Mountain Velo Club, is giving back what... Read more
Delaware, Schoharie and Greene each get $500,000 in flood recovery grants for Main Street businesses
Nov. 28, 2011
Above: A building on Main Street Prattsville after Tropical Storm Irene. Photo by Jay Harsevoort, via the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
The governor's meeting on Windham Mountain this afternoon ended with a big announcement: Three Catskills counties are... Read more
Nov. 28, 2011
Above: Cuomo tours flooded-out Middleburgh on September 3, 2011. Via the GovernorAdnrewCuomo Flickr page.
Governor Andrew Cuomo, who announced a new package of relief funds earmarked for flooded-out communities two weeks ago, will be talking about... Read more
Nov. 24, 2011
Here's wishing you a wonderful holiday. The staff of the Watershed Post is taking some time off to celebrate, and we hope you can too. We'll be back on Monday with regular posts, unless there's some emergency, and then we'll parachute in to do the story... Read more
Nov. 21, 2011
We received word last night that Michelle MacNaught, a gifted 21-year-old SUNY Purchase student and artist from DeLancey, died yesterday.
MacNaught's wood block prints and drawings inspired by her year-long struggle with ovarian cancer were exhibited in... Read more
Nov. 19, 2011
Top: Two Dark Birds, with front man Steve Koester in center.
Above: Video for "Song for Clementine."
It's been a month since the band Two Dark Birds released its second album, Songs for the New. Steve Koester, the group's front man, is from Milwaukee,... Read more