Julia Reischel
Articles
Nov. 18, 2010
Above: Map of broadband access across the country, via the Federal Communication Commission's broadband mapping tool. Below: A map of AM radio set ownership across the county in 1930, from the U.S. Census Bureau, via The Daily Yonder.
The Daily Yonder... Read more
Nov. 18, 2010
Adam Bosch at the Times Herald-Record has the story.
Nov. 17, 2010
The National Weather Serivce offices in Binghamton and Albany have issued warnings that winds could reach gusts of up to 50 miles per hour tonight across the Catskills, as well as much of New York and New England. Drivers should watch out for sudden... Read more
Nov. 17, 2010
Can't get enough debate about fracking? The Huffington Post is hosting a live expert vs. expert debate on its site this morning where the topic is the safety and efficacy of horizontal drilling in the Marcellus Shale. To see and hear the live debate as... Read more
Nov. 17, 2010
If you were awake around 4am this morning, you probably heard a mighty roar of wind. Reports are trickling in of some serious storm activity across the Catskills last night. NY-Alert reports that there was hail and downed trees in Ulster County this... Read more
Nov. 16, 2010
Big, surprising news out of Sullivan County this afternoon. The hamlet of Bridgeville, which has been the focus of several Indian tribes' casino dreams for years, just got closer to becoming the home of a major gaming resort.
The Stockbridge-Munsee Band... Read more
Nov. 16, 2010
Last night, Saugerties' school board unanimously rejected a special tax deal for the developers of the Partition Street Project that would have given the local government significant money up-front but more uncertainty down the line. The Daily Freeman... Read more
Nov. 16, 2010
The Daily Freeman's Jay Braman broke the news today that Belleayre Ski Center is going to see some nasty job cuts:
Belleayre Mountain Superintendent Tony Lanza delivered bad news today to ski center employees. Lanza said he told staff members that top... Read more
Nov. 16, 2010
Photo of hops by Hagen Graebner, via Wikimedia Commons.
New York's one-time cash crop, hops, is on the rise again. Yesterday, the Greene County Industrial Development Agency and Cornell Cooperative Extension announced that the state will fund a hops-... Read more
Nov. 15, 2010
Saturday's meeting of the Coalition of Watershed Towns. Photo and videos by Julia Reischel.
Taking advantage of a “Halley's comet” moment of influence, the Coalition of Watershed Towns has negotiated a new agreement with the New York City Department of... Read more
Nov. 14, 2010
Above and below: Sullivan County Sheriff's Deputies and State Police troopers pull over a few of the scores of high-performance cars that ripped through the speed limit this afternoon. Photo provided by NY State Police.
This afternoon, local law... Read more
Nov. 14, 2010
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. For some context for this week's cartoon, click here. To see a larger version of this cartoon, click here. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here.
Mayer is an artist who's... Read more
Nov. 12, 2010
Site plan for Partition Street Project, from Saugerties Citizens for Smart Development.
The people of Saugerties are facing a dilemma: Does their government tax the controversial and still-to-be-built Partitiion Street Project development a lot now, via... Read more
Nov. 12, 2010
Three men who decided to harvest deer in Roscoe a week early were arrested by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation on Wednesday. 26-year-old Steve Rosati, 27-year-old Vincent J. Lopicolo and 27-year-old Christopher Abrahamsen have been... Read more
Nov. 11, 2010
Sidney, NY Town Meeting - Nov. 4, 2010 from Haqqani OSMANLI on Vimeo.
The town of Sidney's plan to move a Sufi cemetery and the two bodies buried there splashed into the national news cycle in September. Two months later, the scandal is expanding to... Read more
Nov. 11, 2010
The federal Environmental Protection Agency is resorting to a subpoena to get engineering firm Halliburton to reveal its secret recipe for hydraulic fracturing, multiple news agencies are reporting this morning. The order is part of the EPA's effort to... Read more
Nov. 10, 2010
Bat skull and remains in a site affected by White-Nose Syndrome. Photo by Ann Froschauer for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
The bad news about bats just keeps getting worse. The New York Department of Environmental Conservation announced today... Read more
Nov. 10, 2010
A missing person alert for Alice Hall, an 83-year-old woman from Franklin, was issued this morning but then quickly cancelled when she turned up at home safely.
Hall's family reported Hall missing after she was last seen asking for directions to Franklin... Read more
Nov. 10, 2010
Phil Brown, who pens the Adirondack Dispatches blog for the Times Union, had a great post on Monday about two accomplished "ski mountaineers," Mike Whelan and Ron Konowitz, who have teamed up to make a mini-documentary about skiing down Slide Mountain:... Read more
Nov. 10, 2010
ATVs and shotguns can be a hazardous mix. When 36-year-old George M. Banks set out to hunt waterfowl with his two children on Monday in Esopus, he put one of his loaded shotguns on the back of his four-wheeler, where it got tangled up in some netting.... Read more