Julia Reischel
Articles
Aug. 25, 2010
The specific parcels involved in New York City's land-buying plans for the New York City watershed -- the subject of much debate over the past year -- have finally been announced today.
In a press release published on the NYC Department of Environmental... Read more
Aug. 25, 2010
That's a helpful reminder from the Times Herald-Record, which is reporting on a phone scam in Saugerties that involves a call from a fictional police squad code-named URGENT:
Complaints are pouring in to the Saugerties Police Department about calls from... Read more
Aug. 25, 2010
With elections fast approaching, you don't want to be the politician who had to phone in this correction from today's Daily Freeman:
Ulster County Legislator James Maloney, who also is town of Ulster assessor, is a Republican.
Aug. 25, 2010
Mid-Hudson News and the Times Herald-Record are reporting that the DEC and the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office are investigating the supervisor of a Sullivan County cemetery about bags of blood-soaked linens and bandages which were found aboveground.... Read more
Aug. 25, 2010
The concession stand at the Fleischmanns ball field on Wagner Avenue is sporting a brand-new mural featuring the stylings of local kids, according to the town's Facebook page.
Aug. 25, 2010
The new tower, according to a press release, will be located
along the Southern Tier Expressway between Cooks Falls and East Branch just above the Sullivan County border.
Thing is, it looks like there's already plenty of cell coverage in that area, if... Read more
Aug. 24, 2010
We all know that Kutsher's was a mecca for young comedians in its Borscht Belt heyday, but the Wall Street Journal has a fun article about how it also nursed the likes of Wilt Chamberlain and Mickey Mantle. For Wilt, who worked as a bellhop at Kutsher's... Read more
Aug. 23, 2010
Stanley Fish, a regular in the New York Times editorial pages and a part-time Andes resident, writes today about how he lied to a bunch of left-wing 9/11 conspiracy theorists having a meeting in Livingston Manor in order to observe them at close range:
I... Read more
Aug. 23, 2010
In a comment on an article about county fairs in Grist, a commenter going by the name of sewassbe complains that the Ulster County Fair doesn't showcase enough real agriculture:
I went to the Ulster County, NY fair a few weekends ago. And was rather... Read more
Aug. 23, 2010
Fear of fracking is everywhere, and it's starting to affect the whims of potential real estate buyers in Sullivan County, writes David Knudsen of the Sullivan County Real Estate blog. Yesterday, he recounted a conversation he had with a friend and... Read more
Aug. 21, 2010
The law against serving alcohol to minors, that is, which Keith W. Valentine voted for in 2007.
According to the Daily Freeman, Valentine and his wife threw a combination graduation and 4th of July party last month where drinks were served to 18-year-... Read more
Aug. 20, 2010
The Times-Herald Record has the tragic story of Betzalel Levin, a camp counselor from Brooklyn who drowned in White Lake yesterday within feet of a life preserver and a boatload of campers. It's unclear why Levin, who dove off a rented boat in order to... Read more
Aug. 20, 2010
After last week's controversial goose murder in the town of Ulster, a 19-year-old named Christopher Roser has been charged with the act. Instead of being charged with animal cruelty, however, he's being charged with "the unlawful taking of a migratory... Read more
Aug. 19, 2010
Today is the big day for the Rosendale Theatre Collective. The group that spent this year raising money to buy the endangered Rosendale Theatre is signing its mortgage and spending its Pepsi Refresh Grant, possibly as we speak. Tonight at 6pm, there will... Read more