Julia Reischel
Articles
Oct. 11, 2011
Tempers flared at the regular Andes Town Board meeting today when a town resident accused the town's highway superintendent of being illiterate.
Town councilman Ritchie Gabriel was reading a report filed by Andes Highway Superintendent Michael McAdams... Read more
Oct. 11, 2011
Above: A photographic tour of the enormous apple cider press at the Hubbell homestead. Click on the slideshow to open the the tour in a separate window. Photos by Julia Reischel.
It’s a good year for apples in the Catskills. Call it the silver lining of... Read more
Oct. 8, 2011
Dana Elizabeth RiceThe body of 54-year-old Dana Rice, a Kingston resident who has been missing since September 29, was found at the bottom of a steep embankment in the town of Ulster on Friday night, according to a press release issued by the Ulster... Read more
Oct. 7, 2011
Jenn Schuman, the president of the Greater Roxbury Learning Initiative Corporation, sent us these photos of Roxbury Central School students talking about homegrown food and gardening at the Margaretville Hospital Health Fair yesterday.
The students... Read more
Oct. 6, 2011
It looks like the fast-growing Occupy Wall Street movement will come to the Catskills on October 29. Above, a poster making the rounds on Facebook advertises a Delaware County protest planned for the last weekend of the month in Delhi. There's a meet-up... Read more
Oct. 6, 2011
Eugene E. Gundelach, the owner of the Margaretville building on Main Street that burned down on September 17, is no longer being accused of starting the fire, according to the Catskill Mountain News.
Gundelach was arrested on September 17 after the blaze... Read more
Oct. 5, 2011
A lawn sign opposing fracking from Otsego2000. Photo by Flickr user Bosc d'Anjou.
This week on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, we talk with David Merzig, a municipal lawyer for several upstate towns who has been working on local bans on gas... Read more
Oct. 5, 2011
Above: Flooding in Ulster County in September. Photo from the New Paltz Flood Aid website.
Ulster County was hit hard during the flooding caused by the double whammy of Tropical Storms Irene and Lee at the beginning of September. New Paltz Flood Aid, an... Read more
Oct. 4, 2011
Andes Town Supervisor Marty Donnelly tipped us off to an act of vandalism in his town's Ballatine Park last week. It seems that several people decided to gouge their names into a stone obelisk that stands near the southern edge of the park. Today, I was... Read more
Oct. 4, 2011
It's October. Elections are a month away. And you want to get the word out that you are running for office in a town in the Catskills.
The Watershed Post offers unbeatable local political advertising. We reach 30,000 readers per month. Our ads are seen... Read more
Oct. 3, 2011
Ellen Verni has been writing "Home Cookin'," her column of Catskills recipes and rumination, for 24 years. She is sharing some of her archived columns with the Watershed Post. You can get more of Verni on her blog, at homecookincolumn.blogspot.com.
In a... Read more
Oct. 1, 2011
Above: The main shopping district in Middleburgh one month ago. The water rose almost 6 feet high in the street-level buildings. Photo by Marty Rosen.
Matt Avitabile, the volunteer coordinator (and village trustee) for the village of Middleburgh in... Read more