Julia Reischel
Articles
Sep. 22, 2011
Vintage Apple ad, from the pages of Quest, summer 1982. Via Flickr user Jamie.
Online local news is Apple, circa 1982. Get on board.
You: An organized, Internet-savvy go-getter who has always wanted to run your own sales force.
Us: An up-and-coming... Read more
Sep. 22, 2011
Photo by Flickr user Curtis.Kennington.
This week on the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, things are finally getting back to normal. (Sort of.) We talk about a few non-flood-related news stories and a bunch of flood-related ones. Our on-air guest is... Read more
Sep. 22, 2011
The New York Times visited the the flood-ruined remains of the Prattsville Tavern this week, and reported yesterday that owner Ken Cox is keeping the bar going:
Happy hour at the Prattsville Tavern is still going strong. The catch? There is no... Read more
Sep. 21, 2011
Above, a photo of the shed at the Prattsville Agway where the Young family was trapped during the flood, from the Young's General website.
Brian Young, the energetic owner of two Greene County and feed stores, was trapped with his family on the roof of... Read more
Sep. 21, 2011
Writer Harriet Bernstein volunteered in Lexington, New York in the days after Hurricane Irene wiped out bridges, roads and power throughout the Greene County town. She has sent us this report of the scene at the Lexington Mission, a church which fed and... Read more
Sep. 20, 2011
Randy Creamer, a disaster expert with the Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board, was in Prattsville last week to tell homeowners and first responders how to rebuild and clean up after flooding.
Middletown videographer Fred Margulies... Read more
Sep. 20, 2011
According to the Middletown Flood Recovery website today, the landslide that blocked Hog Mountain Road in the Denver/Vega Valley and in Fleischmanns last week is still a big problem that drivers shouldn't ignore.
The site reports that drivers had been... Read more
Sep. 19, 2011
As we clean up from the destruction caused by flooding across the Catskills, it's on all our minds: How do we keep this from happening again?
The answer isn't a simple one. Here at the Watershed Post, we will be exploring the many tasks we have ahead of... Read more
Sep. 19, 2011
FEMA is offering some rent subsidies and help finding replacement housing for flood victims, according to a press release the agency sent out today.
For more information on relief resources in the Catskills, to go the Watershed Post's relief page.
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Sep. 18, 2011
After a fire gutted an apartment building on Main Street Margaretville on Saturday, September 17, deputies from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office arrested the man who owns the building -- 58-year-old Eugene E. Gundelach -- on charges of arson.
The... Read more
Sep. 17, 2011
Above: An apartment building in the village of Margaretville burned on Saturday. Photo by Reginald Oberlag.
2:45pm update: We just received more photos and a report from another witness to the fire, Reginald Oberlag. Here's what he sent us via email:... Read more
Sep. 17, 2011
Top: Main Street Schoharie over Labor Day weekend. Photo by Jay Harsevoort, via Flickr and the Watershed Post Flickr group pool. Above: Photos of Schoharie village on September 8, 2011 by Martin Rivas.
In the village of Schoharie, the county seat of... Read more