Julia Reischel
Articles
Aug. 15, 2010
Brian Eppley, a Pennsylvania-based painter, posted a portrait of a scene near Fleischmanns on his blog this week. Something about the scene has been haunting him since this winter, when he came through the Catskills to ski:
I've had this image in my head... Read more
Aug. 15, 2010
John Duda, the chairman of the the group -- the Central Catskills Collaborative -- that is attempting to give Rte. 28 scenic byway status, is steamed about recent recent reports in the Daily Freeman and the Catskill Mountain News that towns along the... Read more
Aug. 13, 2010
If you've ever parked in the E lot at the Albany airport, you might know how James M. Buccigrossi felt this morning when he discovered that he didn't have enough money to pay his parking fee at the lot's exit. But you probably didn't do what he did next... Read more
Aug. 13, 2010
Phoenicia is festooned with banners celebrating this weekend's Festival of the Voice, which starts tonight. Photo via the Festival of the Voice Facebook page.
We're skipping our blurbalicious event roundup this week to put out some fires in other parts... Read more
Aug. 13, 2010
The Daily Mail reports that a crew repairing a water main break yesterday hit a gas line, which led to an evacuation of Coxsackie's downtown:
Local resident Antonio D'Arcangelis said he was sitting at his window and saw the backhoe strike the pipeline.
“... Read more
Aug. 13, 2010
You can't read the whole story online, but the one sentence from this Catskills Mountain News article that is visible is a good one:
An Arkville Fire Department tanker truck was seriously damaged on Sunday evening, July 11 while it was being used by one... Read more
Aug. 12, 2010
We got a tip last night that a very meticulous graffiti artist has vandalized the sidewalk on the edge of the village of Andes along Rte. 28, right next to the Andes Town Hall. When we went to take a look for ourselves, we found not one but three... Read more
Aug. 12, 2010
A local boy named Brett Joshpe is one of the lawyers involved in challenging plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero in New York City. This week, the Mountain Eagle interviewed Joshpe, who graduated from high school in Stamford in 1998. In the past... Read more
Aug. 12, 2010
Lynn E. Byrne, a resident of Lexington, NY, is outraged that the Windham Journal ran a column praising Japanese Knotweed -- or Polygonum cuspidatum, as it is formally known -- as “a source of many valuable natural products," including nectar for... Read more
Aug. 12, 2010
The mostly-empty Binnekill stream in Margaretville, photographed in winter 2009 by Flickr user Dougtone.
Yesterday, the Catskill Mountain News reported that a new lawsuit has been filed in a years-long battle between property owner Lauren Davis and the... Read more
Aug. 11, 2010
Darrelle Revis, a star football player with the New York Jets, might no longer be playing for the team because of a hush-hush meeting at the Roscoe Diner. From ESPN:
Revis' agents, Jon Feinsod and Neil Schwartz, met with general manager Mike Tannenbaum... Read more
Aug. 11, 2010
Greene County historian David Dorpfeld explains the provenance of one of Greene County's odder town names in the Daily Mail:
Coxsackie is an interesting name to speculate about. I recently talked to a woman who told me that, as a teenager, upon hearing... Read more
Aug. 11, 2010
Fall into a lake, drunk. It happened to Amelia McDonell-Parry, who describes her recent bout with a local body of water on TheFrisky.com:
When I woke up, I have a vague memory of standing, assessing my surroundings, and attempting to make my way back to... Read more
Aug. 11, 2010
The five SUNY Delhi students who make up the school's culinary team were feted on the school's campus yesterday after winning a national championship at the American Culinary Federation's annual convention last week. The video above, featuring SUNY... Read more
Aug. 11, 2010
The Corbin Hill Road Farm, a new kind of community-supported-agriculture project that brings poor South Bronx residents affordable produce from Schoharie County farms, starred in another article today. (The New York Times profiled the venture back in... Read more
Aug. 11, 2010
A driver who didn't notice that his garbage truck's rear gate was up left a Godzilla-like trail of destruction across New Paltz this morning. Among the casualties: a bunch of power lines and a lot of trash. From the Times Herald-Record.