Julia Reischel
Articles
Feb. 10, 2015
The 2015 Catskills Food Guide is out. Click here for more info. - Ed.
Each year, we ask readers of the Watershed Post and our Catskills Food Guide to send us their best photos of Catskills food and farms. This year, 32 photographers entered our 2015... Read more
Feb. 10, 2015
The print 2015 Catskills Food Guide is hot off the presses. This year, the guide features articles about farm-made pasta in Roscoe, Bavarian dining in Greene County, the growing Catskills cider industry, how to visit a local chocolate factory, the... Read more
Feb. 10, 2015
Above: Detail of a 2015 "Visit a Catskills Farm" map.
Drive a couple of hours north of New York City, and you’ll be where your food comes from. The Catskills are home to farms and food producers that make the 100-mile trek to NYC’s greenmarkets and... Read more
Feb. 10, 2015
Above: The Mobil station on Cooley Place in Parksville, just off Route 17 in Sullivan County. Photo via Google Earth.
An argument over a women ended with a shooting in the parking lot of a Mobil gas station just off Route 17 in the Sullivan County hamlet... Read more
Feb. 9, 2015
Nicole Day Gray took this shot on Monday, Feb. 9 at the Freshtown grocery store in the Delaware County village of Margaretville, where a mob of hungry ducks congregate to await kindhearted shoppers who toss them crumbs. Sometimes, the ducks really... Read more
Feb. 9, 2015
Stephanie Fletcher (left), a 29-year-old former biology teacher who pled guilty last year to engaging in sex acts with two students, has been sentenced to six months in jail and 10 years of probation by Delaware County Judge Carl Becker, the Daily Star's... Read more
Feb. 9, 2015
Above: Anthony Atkins, Wayne Atkins and Angela Disanto. Photos via the New York State Police.
Three twenty-something residents of the Sullivan County hamlet of Grahamsville have been arrested for larceny and fraud after allegedly charging $3,000 to a... Read more
Feb. 9, 2015
Above: Icicles in Andes on Saturday, Feb. 7, by Mark Zilberman. Shared in the Watershed Post Flickr Pool.
Schools and offices are closed around the Catskills on Monday, Feb. 9 as the National Weather Service predicts 8 to 14 in inches of snow for the... Read more
Feb. 6, 2015
Above: Only a foundation remained after a fire destroyed a Delhi home on Friday, Feb. 6. Photo by Lissa Harris.
A 51-year-old woman was found dead in the charred remains of her home on Maggie Hoag Road in Delhi on Friday, Feb. 6, according to a press... Read more
Feb. 6, 2015
A 71-year-old Davenport man sustained severe frostbite and may lose his fingers and toes after he fell into a ditch the night of Jan. 13 and spent eight hours outside in severe cold. The Mountain Eagle has the story:
According to his older brother Paul... Read more
Feb. 6, 2015
Above: A promotional video for the Catskill Park, produced by Catskill Mountainkeeper.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease, at least in Albany. And until recently, the Catskills were pretty quiet when it came to asking New York’s legislature and governor... Read more
Feb. 5, 2015
Above: Investigators seized 134 long guns, four assault rifles, one electronic stun gun and two handguns from a Lumberland residence during a drug raid. Photo via the New York State Police.
Left: William Cropley. Photo via the New York State Police. ... Read more
Feb. 5, 2015
Above: "A bitterly cold night is expected across eastern NY and western New England," according to a tweet from the National Weather Service in Albany.
The National Weather Service is warning that temperatures ranging from negative 5 to negative 10... Read more
Feb. 4, 2015
Above: Firefighters battle a structure fire on White Road in the town of Middletown on Feb. 4. Photos by Julia Reischel.
A house at 410 White Road in the Delaware County town of Middletown burned on the afternoon of Wednesday, Feb. 4.
Alice and Anthony... Read more
Feb. 4, 2015
A police dispatcher working in the town of Ulster Police department stole lost cash that a citizen found and turned over to police, according to a press release on the department's Facebook page. Then the dispatcher altered a police blotter record to... Read more
Feb. 3, 2015
A 74-year-old Schoharie man driving an ATV backed into the path of an oncoming car on Terrace Mountain Road in the town of Schoharie on Tuesday, Feb. 3, according to a press release from the Schoharie County Sheriff's Office.
The man, George K. Lawton,... Read more
Feb. 3, 2015
Above: A video promoting the annual Ice Harvest Festival at the Hanford Mills Museum.
It's the deepest, coldest part of winter, which means that it's time to harvest ice.
Ice harvesting, a lost rural tradition that once was the only way to stockpile... Read more
Feb. 2, 2015
Above: A sheepdog guards its flock during a Catskills snowstorm on Monday, Jan. 2. Photo by Mark Zilberman, via Flickr.
After the fakeout from last week's snowstorm-that-wasn't, a foot of snow is falling across the Catskills today, Monday, Feb. 2. Many... Read more
Jan. 30, 2015
Above: An illustration from our first and only April Fool's article, from April 1, 2011, depicting a fake floating casino on the Ashokan Reservoir.
It's the Watershed Post's five year anniversary this month. (We're a little stunned about that, but yes,... Read more
Jan. 29, 2015
Above: The fire that engulfed the Hymers Family Farm on Dec. 11, 2014. Photo via the YouCaring.com farm fundraiser for the Hymers.
Musicians, Farm Catskills and neighbors throughout the region are throwing a fundraiser to benefit the Hymers family, who... Read more