Julia Reischel
Articles
Jan. 18, 2011
Maybe you should wait a few hours. According to 511NY.org, there have been nine accidents on the Thruway today. Look out especially for these two:
NYS Thruway Authority CAD: accident on I-87 - NYS Thruway northbound between Exit 20 (I-87) - Saugerties (... Read more
Jan. 18, 2011
Radar image of a storm system moving over the Catskills today, From the National Weather Service.
The National Weather Service is warning drivers across the Catskills today that a pernicious mix of snow and sleet will make the roads an ice rink this... Read more
Jan. 17, 2011
Goldenheart Unidiversity, a sustainable-living farm-based organization in Stamford, has made it to second place in this month's Pepsi Refresh grant competition for a $5,000 project about honeybees.
The project's page on the Pepsi Refresh website... Read more
Jan. 17, 2011
An 18-year-old woman, Erin Clare Malloy-McArdle, died after skiing into a tree on a Windham Mountain ski slope on Saturday morning.
According to a press release from the New York State Police, Mallow-Mcardle, who was a novice skier, skied off the trail... Read more
Jan. 15, 2011
Daniel Torres speaking at an anti-gas-drilling rally in New Paltz last June. Photo by Julia Reischel
Twenty-year-old Daniel Torres, who as a member of the New Paltz Board of Education is the youngest person ever elected in the town, has posted a... Read more
Jan. 15, 2011
Hudson Valley Business posted a story this week about New Paltz's Unison Arts Center, which is struggling to survive in a moribund economy and might soon face the budget knives under new Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Unison, which has been around since the... Read more
Jan. 14, 2011
Yesterday's New York Times featured the town of Roxbury in Delaware County in a big way: Reporter Bethany Lyttle, who has a house in Roxbury, interviewed fellow Roxbury fellows-about-town Michael Mathis and Christopher Durham about how they've managed... Read more
Jan. 14, 2011
Hunter Mountain has posted a pretty incredible mini-movie of snowboarders enjoying the 10 inches of beautiful snow it got this week. Makes you want to get outside this weekend, doesn't it?
Jan. 13, 2011
A Main Street Stamford hair salon has a new owner and an excellent new name, the Mountain Eagle reports today. Reporter Rosie Cunningham writes that the new name was inspired by proprietor Shanda Whitbeck's dicey experience with elbow surgery.
Jan. 13, 2011
Shane TadrossAn state trooper who stopped to assist a pulled-over driver on the side of Rte. 20 in the Schoharie County town of Sharon stumbled into a treasure trove of psychedelic mushrooms on Tuesday night.
The driver of the car, 38-year-old Shane N.... Read more
Jan. 13, 2011
Above: A photo of one of the many scenes of the abandoned Grossinger's resort.
The first time Jonathan Haeber heard of Grossinger's, he was reading Maus, the acclaimed graphic novel about the Holocaust by Art Spiegelman. Part of the story is set at the... Read more
Jan. 12, 2011
The intrepid snow diviners at Plattekill Mountain stuck a ruler in the ground at 7:30am this morning to find over 7 inches of snow. (See image above, via the Plattekill Facebook page.) And it's still coming down.
For more ski mountain snow photos, check... Read more
Jan. 12, 2011
More details are emerging about Ulster County's threat to sue the New York City Department of Environmental Protection over its releases of turbid water into the Lower Esopus.
William Kemble at the Daily Freeman reports that County Executive Mike Hein... Read more
Jan. 11, 2011
The Times Herald-Record has an exclusive: Ulster County Executive Mike Hein has announced that the county is suing New York City over its release of muddy water from the Ashokan reservoir into the Lower Esopus River. From the story, which broke around... Read more
Jan. 11, 2011
The public-transportation-promoting blog Cap'n Transit published an interesting (and disturbing) map on Sunday that shows that Sullivan County has more car crash fatatities per person than any other county in the New York Tri-State area.
The map, which... Read more
Jan. 11, 2011
Tragic news coming out of Jefferson in Schoharie County: On Sunday, 2-year-old Joshua Falconio, who would have turned three later this month, died on Sunday after a small yellow ball became lodged in his throat.
According to a press release from the... Read more
Jan. 10, 2011
Although the woes of local ski mountains are making headlines these days, Hudson Valley Business reported last week that, as far as ski shops are concerned, this year might be the most lucrative one ever. Reporter Jim Gordon intereviewed several Hudson... Read more
Jan. 10, 2011
Suspected bank robbers who hit Key Bank in Uptown Kingston around 11am this morning may be speeding by you on a highway right now, according to the Times Herald-Record.
Police are asking passers-by to keep a lookout for a two men in a white Ford Taurus... Read more
Jan. 10, 2011
On Saturday, the sound of gunshots rang out in the center of the town of Andes. Andes resident Jack McShane, a board member of the Catskill Mountain Club, emailed us to explain that the shots signaled the merciful end for an injured deer found in... Read more
Jan. 8, 2011
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office reports that it has arrested two teenagers who attempted to rob a deli in Wallkill early this morning. Eighteen-year-old Louis A. Ponessa of Wallkill and an unnamed 15-year-old were both charged with burglary.
Read the... Read more