Julia Reischel
Articles
Feb. 7, 2013
This winter's cold temperatures made a Catskills tradition possible last Saturday at the Hanford Mills Museum in East Meredith: the annual ice harvest. Eight solid inches of ice on Hanford's mill pond was plenty sturdy enough for volunteers and visitors... Read more
Feb. 5, 2013
Above: The Catskill Brewery on January 25, as workers were finishing up the welding and starting on the outside walls. Photo by Suzanne BeVier. Used with permission.
Breweries and distilleries are popping up like mushrooms all over the Sullivan County... Read more
Feb. 2, 2013
Above: Ice on the mill pond at the Hanford Mills Museum -- thick enough to be scored for harvesting yesterday. Photo via the Hanford Mills Museum's Facebook page.
Despite this week's warm weather, Peg Odell of the Hanford Mills Museum tells us this... Read more
Feb. 1, 2013
Astronomer and Woodstock local Bob Berman visited Bennett Intermediate School in Boiceville on January 30, bringing meteorites and a spectroscope to Bennett's after-school science club.
Berman is the author of The Sun's Heartbeat and other astronomy... Read more
Jan. 25, 2013
Above: Video of Ted Blazer's comments to the Catskills at the Boiceville Inn last night. Apologies for the extremely fuzzy video quality. Video shot by Julia Reischel.
Ted Blazer, the CEO of the Olympic Regional Development Authority, visited the... Read more
Jan. 22, 2013
Delaware County's finest eels will be featured on the Cooking Channel this Thursday, along with the county's resident eel whisperer Ray Turner, the owner of Delaware Delicacies Smokehouse in Hancock, and Ed O'Neill, the chef and co-owner of the Andes... Read more
Dec. 28, 2012
The following is a reader-submitted obituary.
Leila Ruth Ellison,100, in recent years a resident of Phoenicia, NY, died Monday, December 24, 2012, at Northern Dutchess Residential Care Facility (Thompson House), in Rhinebeck, NY.
Born in Perth Amboy, NJ... Read more
Dec. 24, 2012
Above: A poster that includes clippings from newspaper coverage about fracking regulations in Cobleskill, posted on the Sharon Springs Against Hydrofracking Facebook page on Saturday.
The debate over how hydraulic fracturing will be regulated in towns... Read more
Dec. 21, 2012
Parallel contrails through winter trees in Monticello on December 14, by Catskills Photography via the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
The forecast for this afternoon calls for the world to continue (by most accounts), and also some snow in Delaware and... Read more
Dec. 17, 2012
Above: A group of DEP and Delaware County employees who worked together on storm recovery in Queens were honored in a ceremony in Downsville on Friday. Commissioner Strickland is fifth from left. Also in the photo are Jim Eisel, chairman of the Delaware... Read more
Dec. 13, 2012
Flickr user A Man Called ACME took this photo of a Blenheim waterfall on December 2 and posted it in our Flickr pool. It's one of several wintery waterways our readers have shot recently.