Julia Reischel
Articles
Jan. 7, 2011
Today, the Daily Freeman sports an interview with Fred and Natasha Ruckel, two second-homeowners who built a cabin near Woodstock while cameras from the DIY network rolled. "Dream House," a reality show about their two-year home-building saga, premieres... Read more
Jan. 7, 2011
The plight of the Ulster County town of Wawarsing, which has been sitting atop a leaky section of the Delaware Aqueduct for decades, may be no fun for residents who have to constantly pump out their basements and drink bottled water. But for a California... Read more
Jan. 7, 2011
Richard Ulloa, the Ulster County man who allegedly sent threatening demands for millions of dollars to Ulster County judges, banks and a Rosendale police officer last year, was convicted of running a "fraudulent lien scheme" by a federal jury on December... Read more
Jan. 6, 2011
The latest from the Times Herald-Record about the search for 33-year-old Zach Green, who has been missing since Sunday:
By midday, police were almost certain that the 6-foot-2-inch, 220 pound man wasn’t near the Esopus Creek or along the railroad tracks... Read more
Jan. 6, 2011
Belleayre's slopes today. Via the Belleayre Mountain Facebook page.
There are two big stories about Belleayre Mountain Ski Center making the rounds today. First off, Jay Braman Jr. has juicy articles in both the Daily Freeman and the Catskill Mountain... Read more
Jan. 6, 2011
What happens when a designer goes on a road trip through Ulster County? She falls in love with the fonts on the signs.
Yesterday, Gail Anderson, who sits on the board of directors of the Society of Publication Designers, shared the photographic fruits of... Read more
Jan. 6, 2011
In today's Daily Star, Patricia Breakey reports that the Delaware County Board of Supervisors has found an interim occupant for the position of Stop DWI coordinator left vacant after the controversial dismissal of Lisa Barrows last month.
Barrows's job... Read more
Jan. 5, 2011
Joe Martens: Photo via the Adirondack Park AgencyYesterday, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that his choice for the head of the embattled New York Department of Environmental Conservation, an agency that has burned through two chiefs in three months,... Read more
Jan. 4, 2011
Lisa Ramirez, in "Exit Cuckoo: Nanny in Motherland." Photo by via the Exit Cuckoo website.
New York City actor and playwright Lisa Ramirez, who wrote and starred in a well-reviewed one-woman show about nannies in 2009, is making the Latina female... Read more
Jan. 3, 2011
Rally to Save Belleayre Mountain from Fred Margulies on Vimeo.
Chanting "We are Belleayre, We are Belleayre," 150 people gathered before a podium at Belleayre Mountain on Friday to protest layoffs at the state-run ski resort ordered by the New York... Read more
Jan. 3, 2011
Hate Crime in NYS 2009 Annual Report:
Last week, we reported that a gay artist in the sleepy hamlet of Pine Hill was possibly the victim of a hate crime when his house was torched on Thanksgiving. If it turns out that the arson was attacking... Read more
Jan. 3, 2011
According to a press release from the State Police, the sale of a stolen handgun in Saugerties on New Year's Day was interrupted when the gun went off.
Reportedly, a bullet struck one man, who ended up at Columbia Memorial Hospital with a non-life... Read more
Jan. 2, 2011
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally hailing from Detroit, he lived for many years in... Read more
Dec. 31, 2010
George HolbertNineteen-year-old George T. Holbert was arrested in Sidney on Tuesday after he allegedly rammed his snowmobile into the back of someone else's vehicle during an argument. The State Police, who reported the incident today, characterized the... Read more
Dec. 30, 2010
The town of Ellenville in Ulster County. Photo by Flickr user Karen Blumberg.
Earlier this month, the Daily Yonder, the blog about rural issues, published an interview with three experts on small towns: Bart Finzel, Jane Leonard, and Dave Engstrom.... Read more
Dec. 30, 2010
An early morning fire at a house in Neversink turned into a pot bust, the State Police report.
When emergency responders arrived at the home around 3am on Wednesday morning, they allegedly found six scorched marijuana plants and five pounds of processed... Read more
Dec. 29, 2010
Pine Hill resident Richard Treitner. Contributed photo.
Richard Treitner, an artist, poet, and self-described shaman who lives in the small hamlet of Pine Hill on the western edge of Ulster County, came home from Thanksgiving this year to find that his... Read more
Dec. 28, 2010
Back in October, Mike Bemis was relieved of his job leading Ulster County's Resource Recovery Agency without much of an official explanation. (Unofficially, thanks to an evesdropping Daily Freeman reporter, a few of the complaints made against Bemis came... Read more
Dec. 28, 2010
Three cheers for Hazel Akerley, a cafeteria monitor who works at Liberty Middle School. In her time working at the school, she has saved two students from choking on their food by performing well-timed Heimlich maneuvers, according to a news brief in the... Read more
Dec. 27, 2010
The Times Herald-Record is reporting that a 59-year-old man who was living in a nursing home in Swan Lake was found dead outside on Sunday morning:
The frozen body of a man who was a resident of the New Swan Lake Adult Home was found dead early Sunday... Read more