Joel Bellstein, a presidential debate correspondent for The Queens Gazette, is still lost somewhere in the middle of Lafayette County according to Victor Kohl, Bellstein's assignment editor.
Bellstein, a graduate of the University of Rochester with a degree in Health & Society, was recently hired by the newspaper to better serve them in their National News department. Bellstein admitted before departing for Oxford that he knew "very little" about "small-town life", but was looking forward to engaging rural folks in "serious dialogue".
According to his employer, Bellstein has attempted to send pictures of his surroundings to several of his co-workers with his cellular phone device. Unfortunately, his service area is limited to the New England region of the United States.
"Every time I send him a text message, he responds to it seven days later. That is not a good sign," said Martin Tregman, Bellstein's cubicle mate.
Bellstein's assignment was to interview Oxford city officials on the subject of the upcoming preparations for the presidential debate and photograph communities in and around Lafayette County. He was to return to the Gazette offices the week before the presidential debate.
Tregman says Bellstein was last seen taking pictures of a trailer on County Road 517.
"Victor talked to an official with the Sardis Lake Recreation Department and asked if they'd seen a man fitting Bellstein's description. The official told him they'd seen a "yankee feller snoopin' around them parts" and that they'd let us know if "his body turned up."
"Yeah, it didn't sound good," Victor Kohl added.
The last recorded contact with Bellstein occurred a week after he arrived in Oxford. In an e-mail sent to his roommate, Wade Evitz, Bellstein described Oxford as, "hott (sic) as hell," and "about the size of our old neighborhood." Bellstein may have also alluded to his potential plans for the evening when he concluded his e-mail by saying, "I hear this guy north of town has some moonshine. Peace Man."
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