Julia Reischel
Articles
Sep. 9, 2015
The place where 14-year-old Jordyn Engler drowned on the Esopus Creek on Saturday, Sept. 5 was near a notorious local river hazard. But that didn’t stop a Catskills tubing company from dropping her off at an abandoned tubing launch nearby.
The hazard, a... Read more
Sep. 5, 2015
The last place you'd expect to find a reggae festival is Bloomville, a hamlet in the middle of rolling dairy country. Here, you're lucky if you can get a strong radio signal, and if you do, you'll hear country or rock, or maybe bluegrass and folk.... Read more
Sep. 3, 2015
A man and a woman were found dead in an apartment in the Delaware County town of Delhi on Wednesday, Sept, 2, according to a press release from Delhi Police Chief Mike Mills.
Thirty-four-year-old Christopher M. Bailey and 25-year-old Krista L. Hess were... Read more
Sep. 2, 2015
Peggy Brueckner lives near the Peekamoose Blue Hole, an icy Catskills pool that is recognized as one of the best swimming holes in the country. Her family has visited the hidden spot for 50 years. But this summer, due to hordes of tourists and the tons... Read more
Sep. 2, 2015
Truckloads of trash have been left in wild Catskills spaces every week during the summer of 2015. The problem is growing, officials say.
In partnership with Visit Vortex, the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, the New York-New Jersey... Read more
Aug. 31, 2015
Above: Jeff Senterman accepts his new post as the executive director of the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development on Saturday, Aug. 29. Photo via the Catskill Center's Instagram feed.
Jeff Senterman, the former Catskills program director of... Read more
Aug. 28, 2015
Above: The 2014 MudFest in Prattsville. Photo via the MudFest Facebook page.
It was four years ago today that Tropical Storm Irene flooded towns across the Catskills. The Greene County town of Prattsville, which saw much of its Main Street swept away by... Read more
Aug. 27, 2015
Above: A motorcyclist was seriously injured on Sunday in a chain-reaction crash in front of the driveway to Snyder's Tavern in West Shokan. Image via Google Street View.
Three motorcycles were involved in a crash near Snyder's Tavern on Route 28A in West... Read more
Aug. 27, 2015
The Schoharie News, an online-only news website that reinvented itself as a print weekly broadsheet earlier this year, has thrown in the towel after 13 weeks.
The paper's owner, editor and founder Tim Knight, said that he decided to close the paper after... Read more
Aug. 26, 2015
Above: A sign for the pie sale at the 2014 Old Franklin Day. This year, the revamped event, known as New Old Franklin Day, still features pies. Photo via the Greater Franklin Chamber of Commerce website.
The annual community day in the Delaware County... Read more
Aug. 26, 2015
It's been a horrible week for car crashes in the Catskills, with three separate collisions in the region resulting in fatalities since Sunday.
A crash killed four people around noon in the Ulster County village of Saugerties on Wednesday, Aug. 26,... Read more
Aug. 26, 2015
Above: A helicopter lands in Phoenicia's Parish Field on Tuesday, Aug. 25 to transport a person who was injured in a crash on Route 28 at the entrance to the hamlet of Phoenicia.
Two crashes occurred on Route 28 on Wednesday, Aug. 26 -- the second day in... Read more
Aug. 26, 2015
Above: Carriage rides at the Bethel Woods Harvest Festival, via the Bethel Woods website.
Harvest season is upon us. This Sunday, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in the Sullivan County town of Bethel kicks begins its weekly Harvest Festival, which... Read more
Aug. 25, 2015
Above: A map of four recent crashes on Route 28.
Two serious car crashes occurred within hours of each other on Tuesday, Aug. 25 on a stretch of Route 28 in the Ulster County towns of Olive and Shandaken that has already seen multiple collisions this... Read more
Aug. 21, 2015
Posted by Schoharie Co. Fire Wire & News on Thursday, August 20, 2015
Above: Photos of the rescue, shared on the Schoharie County Fire Wire and News Facebook page.
Schoharie County's Search and Rescue Team rescued a camper who was trapped 100... Read more
Aug. 21, 2015
Above: A girl hula hoops at the 2014 Summer Hoot at the Ashokan Center. Photo by Rosalind Dickinson. (This image is featured on one of the covers of our 2015 Catskills Outdoor Guide.)
Three days of concerts, music making, camping and camaraderie at the... Read more
Aug. 21, 2015
Above: Power outages in Schoharie County, according to National Grid's outage map.
Power outages are dotted across five Catskills counties on Friday, Aug. 21, with thousands of households in the dark in Schoharie County and hundreds without power in... Read more
Aug. 19, 2015
The Delaware County Fair opened for a weeklong celebration of agriculture, carnival rides and demolition derby smashups on Sunday, Aug. 16 in Walton.
Photographer Michael Wentland, who carries his camera wherever he goes and uses a photojournalistic... Read more
Aug. 14, 2015
Reader Robert Moses caught this great shot of a double rainbow spanning the sky over Harvey Morse's farm on Dingle Hill in Andes on Wednesday, Aug. 12.
This is the second rainbow photo we've gotten this month, and it's not just us--it really is rainbow... Read more
Aug. 14, 2015
Above: Members of Fleischmanns' summer Spinka community accompany a new Torah to their synagogue on Main Street.
Hundreds of members of the Spinka community of Hasidic Jews led by Grand Rabbi Abraham Horowitz gathered on Sunday, Aug. 9 to welcome the... Read more