Julia Reischel
Articles
Jul. 13, 2010
Downy mildew on a basil plant: From the Cornell Dept. of Plant Pathology website. It's downy, it's mildew-ey, and it's out to wilt your basil, the Times Herald-Record reports:
It's called downy mildew, and it's infecting basil plants across New York, as... Read more
Jul. 13, 2010
Thanks to state Assemblyman and Attorney General hopeful Richard Brodsky, who has been demanding to know why quasi-public agencies have been handing out bonuses to their executives, we now know that Alexander Mathes, the executive director of the Greene... Read more
Jul. 12, 2010
The Bishopp Family Farm's blog, "The Grass Whisperer," has another sweet tribute to late Schoharie beef farmer David Huse, who died last month in a tractor accident:
A large, skylight provided a mottled scene over my friend’s casket, as I sat in the pew... Read more
Jul. 12, 2010
I don't know how I missed this last week, but New York City is now selling a line of "NYC water products." That's right: Water glasses, coasters, and carafts decorated with a slogan -- "Drink NYC Water" -- that celebrates the unique and special nature... Read more
Jul. 11, 2010
David Radovanovic, who writes a blog about Saugerties, experienced discrimination against canines firsthand today when he walked his dog Stevie through the Sawyer Motors Car Show. Perturbed, Radovanovic eventually found justice in the form of a... Read more
Jul. 11, 2010
A few years shy of a century ago, Congregation B'nai Israel was founded by Jewish families from Fleischmanns and Margaretville. Its 1918 incorporation date makes the historic synagogue, located on Wagner Avenue in Fleischmanns, one of the oldest in the... Read more
Jul. 9, 2010
On Wednesday, the Woodstock Playhouse Board President, Joan Spitz Roberts, put out a plea on the Playhouse's Facebook page in which she begged for help staving off a looming foreclosure:
In February 2010 one of our Mortgagors felt it necessary to begin... Read more
Jul. 9, 2010
The New York Times accompanies a gaggle of fathers and daughters up the cliffs, and then afterwards to New Paltz, all the while congratulating itself on its touristic originality:
This was a departure from an otherwise typical tourist itinerary in the... Read more
Jul. 8, 2010
Yes, it's already the weekend -- no doubt you're still digesting those candied apples and that funnel cake from the Fourth. But there's no rest for the hungover or the over-carnivaled: There's some awesome stuff to do this weekend. Here's what we're... Read more
Jul. 8, 2010
Apparently, the residents of Ulster and Delaware counties. Belleayre just posted this plaintive update on its Twitter and Facebook pages:
good gracious. does no one want to see Patti LuPone??
C'mon, people, you know that a Broadway veteran will be a good... Read more
Jul. 8, 2010
He may be the reincarnation of Marlon Brando, but Mark Ruffalo really just wants to own a cow. NPR pays a visit to Callicoon, where Ruffalo lives in a farmhouse with his family and knows the names of his neighbors. (He already has chickens, but the... Read more
Jul. 8, 2010
When people get angry about things as benign as farm stands, they get really angry. Phoenicia's Hanover Farms, a large and successful farm stand on Rte. 28 in Mt. Tremper, has been a flashpoint of angst for years.
In a nutshell, owner Al Higley's... Read more
Jul. 7, 2010
There are plans afoot to create a local currency for the Hudson Valley known as the Hudson Valley Current. (The publisher of the Chronogram is one of the backers of the initiative, which is being spearheaded by a nascent nonprofit called the Center for... Read more
Jul. 7, 2010
The debate over gas drilling in the Marcellus is beginning to attract some Madison-Avenue-style advertising stunts, such as this video by Riverkeeper's Don't Frack With NYC campaign:
It stars Louis Thompson, the owner of Terrace Bagels in Prospect... Read more
Jul. 7, 2010
Since Schoharie beef farmer David Huse died last month in a tractor accident, his friends and neighbors have been coming to terms with his loss.
Before it ended its legislative session, the New York State Legislature adopted a resolution honoring Huse's... Read more
Jul. 7, 2010
According to this note in last week's edition of the Mountain Eagle, there is a county-wide municipal water-tasting contest today:
The Delaware County Chamber of Commerce has invited the village of Stamford to participate in the annual Delaware County... Read more
Jul. 7, 2010
Last week, Cobleskill Highway Superintendent Tom Fissell accused Cobleskill Town Supervisor Tom Murray and Mayor Mark Nadeau of uttering the N-word. This week, in the face of their strenuous denials, Fissell has produced an audio tape backing up his... Read more
Jul. 6, 2010
Zero gravity ride in Margaretville. Photo by Alison Cherry.
Across the watershed, rides were ridden, swims were swum, and fireworks were detonated. Here's the proof: photos of the Fourth of July, taken by our readers:
Nature's 4th Display in Stony... Read more