Julia Reischel
Articles
Nov. 9, 2010
Wonder of wonders, there is some long-awaited news in the Daily Freeman this afternoon. Correspondent Jay Braman reports that the New York City Department of Environmental Protection and the upstate Coalition of Watershed Towns, which have been sparring... Read more
Nov. 9, 2010
Nov. 9, 2010
Two people were killed in a two-car accident on Rte. 23 in Davenport yesterday during the afternoon's sudden heavy snowstorm.
The State Police have released little information about the accident, and the names of the two victims are not known. The police... Read more
Nov. 9, 2010
After a month of detective work, the State Police out of Ellenville think they've caught a copper mastermind. On Sunday, they arrested 46-year-old Bradley Snyder of Wawarsing for allegedly stealing stripping four Ellenville cottages of $19,000-worth of... Read more
Nov. 8, 2010
Above, a photo of snow falling in Davenport, from reader Mike Wilkie, via Facebook: "About a 1/2 inch on the ground here in Davenport. It is really coming down now."
This is turning into quite a white-out. The National Weather Service office in... Read more
Nov. 8, 2010
A snowman at Buck Ridge Lookout on West Kill Mountain, at 3,500 feet of elevation. Photo by Bob Moses.
Our correspondent Aaron Bennett, the regional director of the Catskill Mountainkeeper, led a hike up West Kill mountain in Greene County on Saturday.... Read more
Nov. 8, 2010
The village of Fleischmanns has won a legal battle over its right to foreclose on a long-shuttered movie theater in the center of town.
On October 21, a five-judge panel of the Third Department of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York... Read more
Nov. 7, 2010
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. To see a larger version of this cartoon, click here.
Gary Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years.... Read more
Nov. 6, 2010
State Troopers arresting Molly Martel on Thursday night. Photo provided by the NY State Police.
A 27-year-old New Hampshire woman who is suspected of stabbing a woman to death on Tuesday in Manchester, New Hampshire was arrested at the Colonial Motel in... Read more
Nov. 6, 2010
21-year-old Christopher A. Depew was arrested on Thursday, allegedly because he stole a diamond engagement ring from a Port Ewen person for whom Depew worked as a home health aid, according to a press release from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office. For... Read more
Nov. 5, 2010
This just in from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office:
On Thursday evening Delaware County Sheriff's Deputies arrested and charged two seventeen year old Walton youths following an investigation into a Town of Walton burglary.
The youths were both... Read more
Nov. 5, 2010
Bovina artist Corneel Verlaan has spend fourteen years flying the skies of Delaware County in a Cessna 172 with a camera trained at the ground through the plane's open window. Tomorrow, he will show the flightless what our towns look like from the sky.... Read more
Nov. 5, 2010
Despite what looks like a victory for U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey in Tuesday's election, his opponent, George Phillips, isn't ready to concede, the Daily Freeman reports:
Matt Hutson, a Phillips campaign spokesman, said on Thursday that absentee... Read more
Nov. 4, 2010
Yesterday afternoon, a man in a brown corduroy jacket and a "Halloween mask with horns" robbed a Key Bank on Chestnut Street in Oneonta, according to a press release from the State Police:
The New York State Police are investigating a Bank Robbery that... Read more
Nov. 3, 2010
The State Police are reporting that a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man who walked into the woods alone on Monday has been found dead today in a 500-acre area off of Anbu Rd. in the town of Shandaken. There are no details yet about how Christopher Brennan... Read more
Nov. 3, 2010
A 51-year-old Esopus man was arrested in Kingston on Monday night for allegedly showing up drunk to a Stop DWI Impact panel that was being held in the Sheriff's Office building. Law enforcement quickly surmised that if Thomas Ackerman was drunk at the... Read more
Nov. 2, 2010
Bravo to Ulster County -- it has a live election tally rolling on their website for all races that is astoundingly easy to use. (At the moment, John Bonacic is leading David Sager in one of the more prominent races.)
The Times Herald-Record is impressed... Read more
Nov. 2, 2010
These days, election results are an instant gratification business. Polls closed just an hour ago, and already the AP, the NYT, and the Washington Post are calling the NY governor's race for Andrew Cuomo. (The Times says that senators Kirsten Gillibrand... Read more
Nov. 2, 2010
U.S. Congressman Maurice Hinchey being interviewed on Trailer Talk. Photo contributed by Sabrina Artel.
Sabrina Artel, a local radio host who interviews her guests at her vintage trailer's kitchen table, has a last-minute refresher course on a couple of... Read more
Nov. 1, 2010
Last Thursday, the Central Catskills Collaborative re-christened the stretch of Route 28 that runs between Hurley and Andes as the "Catskill Mountains Scenic Byway."
The re-naming is part of the lengthy process of getting the road special recognition as... Read more