Julia Reischel

Articles

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
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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
A 22-year-old man from Yonkers drove 107 miles per hour on Route 17 through the Delaware County town of Hancock early on Wednesday morning, police say. Mark B. Frederick was sent to the Delaware County Correctional Facility on Wednesday, Aug. 26 after he... 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. 25, 2015
A wedding at the Emerson Resort and Spa in the Ulster County hamlet of Mount Tremper took a violent turn on Saturday, Aug. 22 when one guest threatened to hit another with a rock, according to a press release from the Shandaken Police that was reported... 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. 17, 2015
Two Deposit men were arrested last week during a heroin sting operation run by Delaware and Broome County law enforcement officials, police say. Left: Clint Stevens. Photo via the Delaware County Sheriff's Office.  After a six month investigation, a... 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
Aug. 13, 2015
Above: Visitors to the 2014 Monticello Bagel Festival pose in front of a bagel sculpture. Photo via the Bagel Festival's Facebook page.  This Sunday, Aug. 16, the Sullivan County village of Monticello becomes the bagel capital of the world for a day... Read more
Aug. 13, 2015
Above: A house and propane tank (white, center of photo) that were hit by a BMW on Monday, Aug. 10. Image via Google Earth.  Eight fire companies responded to a home on Glenford Wittenberg Road in the Ulster County town of Hurley on Monday night after a... Read more
Aug. 11, 2015
Above: An aerial image of the railroad tracks in the village of Otego. Image via Google Earth. A Delaware County couple riding in a golf cart with their dog was hit by a train while crossing railroad tracks in the Otsego County village Otego on Sunday,... Read more
Aug. 10, 2015
It's August, the very peak of the high summer season in the Catskills, and the roads are jammed with drivers. That means more crashes, especially on weekends, when the region's many visitors are in transit. In one week, there have been two crashes on the... Read more

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