Julia Reischel
Articles
Oct. 30, 2010
Yesterday, the New York Times ran an analysis of how natural gas is becoming the dominant issue in the election battle between Democratic congressional incumbent Maurice Hinchey and his Republican (and pro-gas-drilling) challenger George Phillips. (The... Read more
Oct. 29, 2010
Image from 2009 campaign contribution report for the Chesapeake Energy Corporation FED-PAC.
New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand has avoided taking a stand on natural gas drilling in upstate New York, a hard line to walk when the issue is playing an... Read more
Oct. 29, 2010
Today, Adam Bosch over at the Times Herald-Record took a look at last-minute contributions to various local candidates running in Tuesday's election. He found that much of the eleventh-hour money is from gas-drilling companies.
The numbers show that... Read more
Oct. 29, 2010
IwanowiczAfter firing Pete Grannis, the former head of the Department of Environmental Conservation, last week, Governor David Paterson has a new man for the job: Peter Iwanowicz. According to a press release issued by the governor's office yesterday,... Read more
Oct. 28, 2010
This week, the Daily Freeman caught up with the still-in-the-works Crossroads Resort development and its backer, Dean Gitter, who told the paper that rumors of the project's demise have been greatly exaggerated:
“It has been a while since we communicated... Read more
Oct. 28, 2010
Looks like strong rural feelings about outdoor wood boilers have got the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation running scared. After issuing new regulations for OWBs last week, the DEC decided to un-issue them.
The regulations were... Read more
Oct. 28, 2010
It was only a matter of time. In fact, our cartoonist Gary Mayer saw it coming.
Oct. 27, 2010
The Golden Notebook in Woodstock. Photo from the bookstore's Facebook page.
After months of fretting that their favorite independent local bookstore would close for good, bibliophiles in Woodstock can rejoice. The Golden Notebook, a venerable local... Read more
Oct. 27, 2010
Round Top Barn on the Shultis family farm in Wittenberg, Ulster County. Below, one man's memories of a childhood in the Catskills, submitted by Watershed Post reader Lawrence J. Caldwell. If you have tales of bygone Catskills to share, send them to us at... Read more
Oct. 26, 2010
Tonight at 7pm in the town hall on Rte. 28, anyone interested in the Delaware County town of Middletown will have a chance to weigh in on its 112-page draft comprehensive plan. The plan attempts to outline how Middletown, which contains the villages of... Read more
Oct. 23, 2010
The Daily Mail has the details:
A 29-year-old Durham man died Wednesday night in an ATV accident on Cunningham Road, state police said Friday.
Earlier: Other recent ATV fatalities in the Catskills.
Oct. 22, 2010
A slew of environmental groups are rallying to side with Pete Grannis, the erstwhile Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, who was fired abruptly last night. The groups expressed their concern by releasing a press... Read more
Oct. 22, 2010
Here in Andes, it snowed -- and stuck, in places -- for hours this morning. That picnic bench above is just outside the Watershed Post HQ, around 9am.
Carol Seitz of the Woodland Valley View reported flurries down in the Phoenicia area this morning, too... Read more
Oct. 21, 2010
GrannisPete Grannis, the head of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, was abruptly shown the door today by Governor David Paterson. Capitol Confidential has the scoop, and it's a doozy, with juicy inter-agency emails and lots of... Read more
Oct. 21, 2010
"My Headlight After a Deer Encounter." Photo by Flickr user joanna8555.
Sometimes, the deer really are out to get you, the Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin reported on Sunday:
Solon "Stevie" Tsangaras was driving back from a music gig near the hamlet... Read more
Oct. 21, 2010
The first of 56 UV-irradiating steel-disinfection chambers being installed in the DEP's new ultraviolet Disinfection Facility in Westchester County. Photo via the DEP's Facebook page.
Beginning in 2012, all the water from the Catskills-Delaware... Read more
Oct. 21, 2010
An outdoor wood boiler, photographed by Flickr user julianmeade.
After a long, hot summer of discontent, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has given up on outlawing old outdoor wood boilers. The agency is rolling out regulations... Read more
Oct. 20, 2010
This just in from the Schoharie County Sheriff's Office: A motorcyclist driving on Rte. 10 in the town of Jefferson this afternoon struck a guardrail and was ejected into a 40-foot ravine. The driver was 47-year-old Maurizio Segatto of Schenectady. He... Read more
Oct. 20, 2010
Christopher Palmatier, from the Otsego County town of Worcester, has been arrested by the Schoharie County Sheriff's Office for allegedly raping an underage girl.
According to a press release from the Schoharie County Sheriff's Office, which you can read... Read more