Julia Reischel
Articles
Nov. 28, 2010
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally hailing from Detroit, he lived for many years in New... Read more
Nov. 27, 2010
Jon and Tiffany Kalupa in their new Margaretville store, Reprise. Photos by Julia Reischel.
A dingy storefront that has stood empty on Main Street in Margaretville for over a year has been transformed into a men's clothing boutique that wouldn't look out... Read more
Nov. 27, 2010
Brooklyn Bridge in the snow, by Randy Lemoine. Photo via Flickr, some rights reserved.
Michele Forsten, the director of communications for New York City College of Technology/CUNY, bought a condo in Ulster County in order to get away from the big city.... Read more
Nov. 27, 2010
The hosts and broadcasters at Roxbury's WIOX radio station are celebrating today. The full-power FM station, which you can hear throughout much of Delaware County on 91.3 FM, is now also online. To listen to the streaming audio of the station's current... Read more
Nov. 26, 2010
WBNG Binghamton reports that some local Delaware County dancers were tapped to march in the enormous Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City yesterday:
Five young dancers from the Kennedy Performing Art Studio in Sidney strutted their stuff in... Read more
Nov. 26, 2010
The New York Times ran a long and loving article yesterday on a Catskills tradition: KlezKamp, a Yiddish culture festival-cum-bootcamp that runs the week between Christmas and New Year's at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in Kerhonkson. The gathering... Read more
Nov. 25, 2010
We here at Watershed Post HQ wish all of you a happy Thanksgiving. (Certainly happier than ours -- the whole team here has a terrible cold and will be missing the big feast entirely.)
Here are two Catskills Thanksgiving nuggets gleaned from the internet... Read more
Nov. 25, 2010
People are getting mighty excited about gas drilling. An article on the business website The Street yesterday urged its readers to jump on the natural-gas bandwagon before it, er, "explodes:"
2011 is going to be the year for natural gas. Stories keep... Read more
Nov. 24, 2010
Oorah's BoyZone camp in Jefferson. Photo by Julia Reischel
The Asbury Park Press, a New Jersey newspaper, reports that Oorah Inc., the company that owns a Jewish boy's summer camp in the Schoharie County town of Jefferson, was the target of a noisy... Read more
Nov. 24, 2010
Skiers at Belleayre. Photo via the Bellayre website.
The Adirondack Daily Enterprise, in a show of some gumshoe reporting, has gotten a list of every single position slated for axing from the New York Department of Environmental Conservation this year.... Read more
Nov. 23, 2010
This just in from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office: A 30-year-old Franklin man named Preston E. Smith has been arrested for allegedly stealing a rifle and then using it to go hunting. The press release in full:
On November 22, 2010 Delaware County... Read more
Nov. 23, 2010
A tempest in a teapot is brewing today over the New York State Department of Environmental Conversation's looming layoffs. The Civil Service Employees Association, which is furious about the cuts and is considering a lawsuit, finagled a Freedom of... Read more
Nov. 23, 2010
A black bear crosses the road at noon in California. Photo by RickC, via Flickr.
There might be a rather large black bear roaming around Uptown Kingston today, according to the Daily Freeman:
City police were called to Stickles Avenue off Fairview Avenue... Read more
Nov. 22, 2010
When you hit a deer, as so many of us have in the Catskills, your first worry is instant death and dismemberment, your second is for the cost of autobody repair, and your third, maybe, is for the deer. But last week, a 25-year-old man from Mount Vision... Read more
Nov. 22, 2010
Detail of this week's "Potshots" cartoon, by Gary Mayer.
As anticipated last week, Governor David Paterson announced today that he has struck a deal with the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans to build a gaming resort in the hamlet of Bridgeville in... Read more
Nov. 22, 2010
Rte. 28 between Hurley and Andes already has a new name: the Catskill Mountains Scenic Byway. And now, the Central Catskills Collaborative is hosting a design contest to come up with a logo for the route.
Anyone who is unsatisfied with the new logo for... Read more
Nov. 21, 2010
A close-up photograph of a crack inside the Delaware Aqueduct under the hamlet of Roseton in Ulster County. Photo provided by the NYC DEP.
On Friday, the DEP told the world that it is planning an enormous public works project to repair the leaking... Read more
Nov. 19, 2010
A rendering of the DEP's plans for a three-mile bypass to the Delaware Aqueduct. Image provided by NYC DEP.
Tonight, New York City Department of Environmental Protection commissioner Cas Holloway told a group of Wawarsing residents that their chronically... Read more
Nov. 19, 2010
Two Honduran immigrant brothers perished in a fire at a Saugerties riding club when their cigarettes ignited their wood-frame bungalow on Wednesday night, Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record reports in today's paper.
While the police have released few... Read more
Nov. 19, 2010
WIOX on its launch day in August. Photo by Julia Reischel.
Big radio news across the Catskills today.
In Delaware and Schoharie counties, full-power WIOX station has won a $129,712 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC). The funds have... Read more