Julia Reischel
Articles
May. 16, 2011
Varnishkes. Photo by Tjingko,via Wikipedia Commons.
As we mentioned in February, the aged Kutshers resort in Monticello is getting a hip Tribeca outpost. Last Wednesday, Eater NY reported that the Tribeca community board voted to approve the putting the... Read more
May. 16, 2011
Last week was a big week for effluvia-related news in the watershed.
On Friday, Mike Hein, Ulster County's chief executive, decided not to sue the New York City Department of Environmental Protection over its releases of muddy water into the Esopus Creek... Read more
May. 14, 2011
Lars Ryder: Photo via New York State PoliceA missing Sullivan County woman has allegedly been murdered by her "live-in companion," according to a press release from the New York State Police.
Elizabeth Mucci was reported missing on Tuesday, and yesterday... Read more
May. 13, 2011
According to a post by Adrian Kuzminski of Sustainable Otsego and the Daily Star, the town of Otsego decided on Wednesday to ban hydraulic fracking within its borders. From a post on the Sustainable Otsego website:
It is the first rural town in New York... Read more
May. 13, 2011
Two men were arrested on Tuesday for running a "dental scheme" in the town of Afton in Chenango County, according to the New York State Police out of Sidney.
The two men, 57-year-old Victor Nino and 49-year-old Virgilio Taveras, reportedly ran the "... Read more
May. 13, 2011
First the Cannonsville Adventure Triathlon, now the Kingston's Artists' Soap Box Derby. What other awesome summer Catskills events are going to be cancelled this year?
The Times Herald-Record reports that the artists' derby, which has featured sculptures... Read more
May. 13, 2011
Jessica Vecchione, a Watershed Post video contributor and advertiser, works as a videographer for hire around Delaware County. She just finished a project for Bassett Healthcare Network, which outlines what, exactly, O'Connor Hospital in Delhi and the... Read more
May. 12, 2011
A Roxbury police car plays 91.3FM on its speakers outside the WIOX FM headquarters during the radio station's grand opening last August. Photo by Julia Reischel.
In the 10 months since it launched, WIOX 91.3 FM, a full-power radio station, has been the... Read more
May. 11, 2011
This week's Friday the 13th is going to be unlucky for gas companies if Brewery Ommegang has any say in the matter. The brewery, which announced last year that is opposed hydraulic fracturing development in New York, is throwing a "Concert to Fight... Read more
May. 11, 2011
Constructing the resurrected Blackthorne. Photo via the Blackthorne Resort website.
The Blackthorne Resort in East Durham, which was destroyed in a fire during a motorcycle rally last fall, has risen from the ashes. The resort is hosting a grand re-... Read more
May. 10, 2011
We'll find out tomorrow whether the Delaware River Basin Commission will allow water from the Oquaga Creek, a trout stream that drains into the West Branch of the Delaware River, to be used in hydraulic fracturing projects in Delaware and Broome counties... Read more
May. 10, 2011
Governor Andrew Cuomo burying Sullivan County casino dreams. Illustration by Gary Mayer.
After an ambitious plan to put a casino in town of Thompson in Sullivan County crashed and burned earlier this year (see image above), a new casino dream is rising... Read more
May. 10, 2011
Still from the movie "Gasland."
A team of scientists at Duke University published a paper yesterday which should make Gasland director Josh Fox very happy: It provides peer-reviewed, prestigiously-published scientific evidence that hydraulic fracturing... Read more
May. 9, 2011
Broadband cable. Photo by Michael Coghlan, via Flickr.
Some excellent reporting by blogger and community activist Sam Pratt has prompted a story in the Daily Mail about Mid-Hudson Cablevision, which, both Pratt and the Mail report, is turning down $3.5... Read more
May. 9, 2011
Laurie McIntosh, a musician, storyteller, and mom of two, spent Mother's Day on a mountainside in Andes, where, she emailed us, she found enough flowers to please any mama:
A Trout Lily and a sea of Spring Beauties, is what I found on Mt. Pisgah (aka... Read more
May. 6, 2011
Franz Liszt, the virtuoso Hungarian pianist and composer pictured above, would've turned 200 this year, and a series of concerts around the Catskills (and the world) are celebrating his music all year long. Tomorrow afternoon, East Meredith joins in the... Read more
May. 6, 2011
If you're a kid yearning for a kite, show up at the Loch Sheldrake campus of SUNY Sullivan tomorrow just before 10am. The college's annual kite festival, which runs from 10am to 4pm, is handing out free kites to the first 200 children who arrive. And... Read more