Julia Reischel
Articles
Feb. 18, 2011
Laura Levine, the proprietrix of Phoenicia's thrift-store-cum-junk-shrine Homer & Langley's Mystery Spot Antiques, also happens to have taken some of rock's most iconic images (such as a portrait of naked, leaf-covered Bjork) during her career as a... Read more
Feb. 18, 2011
The alleged wrongdoings of Kingston police Detective Lt. Timothy Matthews, who has been charged with stealing thousands from the city of Kingston, are inspiring a full-scale investigation of Ulster County's Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotic Team, the... Read more
Feb. 17, 2011
Giant hogweed: Photo from DEC In the midst of a tight new budget and a departmental hiring freeze, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has one job for which it is actually hiring: giant hogweed wrangler.
Thanks to funding set... Read more
Feb. 17, 2011
The voters have spoken in Budget Travel's America's Coolest Small Town contest, and Phoenicia has come in 6th with 15,451 votes. (The winner was Lewisburg, West Virginia, with an astonishing 139,118 votes.)
Lewisberg has been the leader in the contest... Read more
Feb. 16, 2011
Photo of snow on a Stamford hillside by Flickr user McGahee. Posted in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
Michael Frank, writing for the online-only Adventure Magazine this week, has a special Valentine's message for the Catskills: he's sorry he ever... Read more
Feb. 16, 2011
Ulster County Executive Mike Hein announced in his annual county address last night that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has filed a formal complaint against the New York City Department of Environmental Protection over the... Read more
Feb. 16, 2011
The Schoharie County Sheriff's Office is reporting that 26-year-old Tara Valhos fell off a snowmobile in the village of Richmondville and into the path of an oncoming car yesterday.
According to a press release, Valhos was airlifted to Bassett Medical... Read more
Feb. 16, 2011
A bus driver and an aide transporting Pre-K and kindergarten students to Catskill Elementary School on Monday morning parked a bus in a Wal-Mart parking lot with a 5-year-old girl sleeping inside, according to the Daily Mail and the Daily Freeman. When... Read more
Feb. 15, 2011
Casks of liquor from Tuthilltown. Photo via the Tuthilltown Spirits Facebook page.
Hudson Valley Business has a neat story this week about what Ulster County whiskey-maker Tuthilltown Spirits is doing with the old oak barrels it uses to age its liquors... Read more
Feb. 15, 2011
A "large fireball" was spotted in the skies over Ulster County yesterday by an anonymous poster on a meteor-tracking blog:
Ulster County, NY Large Daytime Fireball 12:45 p.m., February 14, 2011
Feb 15 2011, 3:38 AM
Guest233 (guest): Promo3 Large... Read more
Feb. 15, 2011
The Daily Freeman is reporting that yet another car accident happened yesterday evening, this one the second to occur on Rte. 28 this week. Happily, however, the four occupants of the car sustained only minor injuries, the paper reports:
Officer John... Read more
Feb. 15, 2011
Another person has died in a vehicular accident this week, bringing the death toll from Catskills car and snowmobile accidents up to four since Friday.
The Daily Freeman and the Times Herald-Record are reporting that a 58-year-old Hurley woman died after... Read more
Feb. 15, 2011
The Stamford igloo. Photo by Beth Adams.
George Divine in Stamford has built an enormous, ice-reinforced igloo in his backyard. It's so impressive that the Mountain Eagle has written an article about it:
The four walls of the snow fort received a layer... Read more
Feb. 14, 2011
Last week, a Sullivan County man was released from a 50-year jail sentence after he was found innocent of raping a 12-year-old girl, while an Ulster County man was arrested after reportedly being caught in the act of trying to erase a hard drive full of... Read more
Feb. 14, 2011
As a rural area, the Catskills region chronically lacks high-speed, broadband internet access. The region's deep valleys and steep hillsides make cell phone service next to impossible. (In fact, the Times Herald-Record just wrote an entire cover story... Read more
Feb. 14, 2011
(Post has been updated -- scroll to bottom for more details.)
In addition to Friday's Grand Gorge car accident, which claimed the life of a Gilboa man, last weekend saw two other fatal accidents: a snowmobile crash in the town of Rochester and a car... Read more
Feb. 13, 2011
On Friday afternoon, 42-year-old Thomas J. Berger of Gilboa was killed in an automobile accident in Grand Gorge. Also injured in the crash was Richard Lewis, an 87-year-old from Gilboa, who is being treated at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown.... Read more
Feb. 13, 2011
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. For some context for this week's cartoon, click here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years.... Read more
Feb. 12, 2011
Ice climbing is not for the faint-of-heart. Just being outdoors on your average winter Catskills day can be bad enough, let alone outdoors hanging by your fingernails from the underside of a cliff 85 feet up.
But lots of people around here love the sport... Read more
Feb. 11, 2011
He dallied awhile before coming forward, but Stephen Kirwan, of the hamlet of Purling in the town of Cairo, has finally claimed that $122 million Powerball ticket that everyone was wondering about last month.
Kirwan's identity was revealed at a press... Read more