Julia Reischel
Articles
Jun. 24, 2010
Downtown Ellenville in 2005. Photo by Daniel Case, via Wikimedia Commons.
The Times Herald-Record's Jeremiah Horrigan waxes epic in his story about 91-year-old Ellenville mogul Harry Resnick, who once ran a 7,000-person company -- Channel Master -- out... Read more
Jun. 24, 2010
Earlier this week, it was gazebos. Now, the governing elite of Kingston have moved on to another civic spat -- this one over an illegal pile of brush that a city alderman had removed from his curb last week.
Once again, the quotes are priceless, as... Read more
Jun. 24, 2010
The Mountain Eagle has the depressing story:
Members of the Greater Stamford Area Chamber of Commerce learned there would be no ‘Music on the Mountain’ event this summer and heard a presentation by Kees Trappenburg about the Junior Golf Program at the... Read more
Jun. 24, 2010
Greenwire reports via the New York Times that there is discussion behind the scenes in Congress about a possible plan to publicly disclose the proprietary fluids used in hydraulic fracturing:
The proposal making the rounds in the House would largely keep... Read more
Jun. 24, 2010
Noah Katz, a Vice President of Foodtown/Freshtown, stands in front of the Margaretville Freshtown, which will hold a grand opening ribbon-cutting at 7pm tonight. Photo by Lissa Harris.
The citizens of Margaretville and Delhi get to celebrate two long-... Read more
Jun. 24, 2010
The Vermont-based Center for Biological Diversity informed Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar yesterday that they are suing the government on behalf of two bat species that have been decimated by a mysterious fungus. From the press release... Read more
Jun. 23, 2010
I don't know how many times I've given up in despair while trying to to figure out how to take the Trailways bus to Port Authority from somewhere along Rte. 28.
First, there's the many different Trailways franchises to navigate: Pine Hill Trailways,... Read more
Jun. 23, 2010
It was all in a day's work for David Campbell of Monticello, reports the Times Herald-Record:
David Campbell, 32, called Village Judge Josephine Finn a racial slur several times while being arraigned at noon, police say, and kicked a patrol car after he... Read more
Jun. 23, 2010
The BP oil spill is making ordinary folks pretty apocalyptic. Today, Kingston resident Peter Meurer wrote the Daily Freeman a letter with his theory of how the catastrophe could be the end of the world:
My grandson had a thought on this: There is a... Read more
Jun. 21, 2010
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer has been working overtime to keep the good citizens of New York safe this week. On Saturday, he made an appearance in Kingston to warn his constituents of the dangers of cancer-causing sunscreen. (Oddly, in the video taken by... Read more
Jun. 21, 2010
Our columnist Aaron Bennett spent the weekend at the Clearwater Festival. Looks pretty idyllic from where he was sitting.
Jun. 19, 2010
Richard HughesAfter a tumultuous year as the principal of Delhi's Delaware Academy and Central School, Richard Hughes is leaving to become the superintendent of the Otselic Valley School District, according to the Chenango County Evening Sun:
A permanent... Read more
Jun. 18, 2010
The Department of Environmental Conservation has issued an air quality alert from Sullivan and Ulster counties from 1pm on Saturday to 1am on Sunday. Here's the text of the alert:
AIR QUALITY LEVELS IN OUTDOOR AIR ARE PREDICTED TO BE GREATER THAN AN AIR... Read more
Jun. 18, 2010
YouTube user 125sigbn somehow flew over the Mountain Jam music festival last week and posted the view on YouTube. (His profile page is a little thin on the details of how, exactly, he flies, but it looks pretty real.)
Jun. 17, 2010
David Knudsen is spitting mad that Congress neglected to re-up the National Flood Insurance Program this June, which means, he says, that homebuyers in high-risk flood zones are out of luck:
Because Congress failed to extend authorization for the program... Read more
Jun. 17, 2010
Vincent Seeley, the president of the village of Catskill who recently floated the idea of closing the town's bars at 2am instead of 4am, is backing down, the Daily Mail reports:
“As of right now, [the idea] is dead,” Seeley said. “I am not going to... Read more
Jun. 16, 2010
Councilman Jay Wenk took heat from an audience member at a meeting of the Woodstock Town Board last night for his longstanding habit of sitting during the recitation of the pledge of allegiance, the Daily Freeman reports. According to Wenk, he's not... Read more
Jun. 15, 2010
At noon today, about 50 anti-gas-driling protesters hauled signs to the lawn in front of the Region 3 office of the New York Deparment of Environmental Conservation to call for a fracking moratorium. One of the speakers was New Paltz Central School... Read more
Jun. 14, 2010
"Fireshade": One of Drolma's masks. Photo by Andrew Hanenberg.
Music writer Tony Fletcher chronicles a bonanza of new stores in Phoenicia and concludes that the Ulster County village is "phriving."
The new digs include a cafe and market called Mama's Boy... Read more