Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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Apr. 15, 2014
Above: Temperatures around upstate New York around 8 a.m. this morning, showing a cold front moving east across the region. The National Weather Service in Albany writes: "Current 8 a.m. temperature in Albany is 63 degrees while behind the cold front in... Read more
Apr. 9, 2014
It's a familiar story in small-town America: Little community bank strikes a deal with a giant national corporation, and suddenly there's a new logo on your local bank branch.
Only this time it's the other way around. NBDC Bank -- also known as the... Read more
Apr. 9, 2014
Above: Images from a photo gallery of arrests made during the recent URGENT investigation "Operation Spring Cleaning," posted on the Ulster County Sheriff's Office's Facebook page.
Over three dozen arrests were announced with great fanfare on Wednesday... Read more
Apr. 4, 2014
Above: The Phoenicia Library under construction. Photo by Nancy Howell.
Spring in the Catskills means new sounds in the landscape: the patter of raindrops, the tweeting of songbirds, and the sweet, sweet sound of hammers on nails. This season brings a... Read more
Apr. 1, 2014
Above: The Java Lounge, an upstairs café at Joshua's, overlooks Tinker Street in Woodsock. Photo courtsey of Joshua's.
It’s an exciting time for the Catskills restaurant scene. In the past few years, the area has launched many new restaurants. (For a... Read more
Mar. 31, 2014
Above: A Lenco armored state police vehicle brought in to assist with a situation on Route 212 on Monday, in which police crisis teams arrested a woman who was armed with a handgun and threatening suicide. Photo from the Woodstock Fire Department's blog... Read more
Mar. 31, 2014
A head-on collision between two BMWs on Route 9W in Highland claimed two lives early Saturday morning. The crash, which was widely reported by local media outlets, shut down 9W for hours.
Today, the Town of Lloyd Police Department identified the two... Read more
Mar. 30, 2014
Roads in the higher elevations of the Catskills are dangerously slick tonight, especially in the western Catskills counties of Delaware and Sullivan, where the National Weather Service's Binghamton office has issued a special weather bulletin about bands... Read more
Mar. 29, 2014
A mix of heavy rains in the forecast, late-spring snow still clinging to mountain slopes, and still-frozen ground could be a recipe for flash flooding in the Catskills region Saturday night through Monday, forecasters warn.
Heavy rain is expected to... Read more
Mar. 28, 2014
Police are looking for the driver of a car that struck and critically injured a four-year-old child in a Kingston street on Thursday evening, then fled the scene of the accident.
Around 10:10 p.m. on Thursday night, the four-year-old was crossing Koenig... Read more
Mar. 28, 2014
More than 3,100 households in Delaware County were without power this morning, across an area that included most of NYSEG's customers in the towns of Stamford, Kortright and Harpersfield.
As of around 10:45 a.m., a NYSEG power outage map was reporting... Read more
Mar. 27, 2014
A year after it was begun, a New York State program to help homeowners pay for damage inflicted by Irene, Lee and Sandy is coming to a close. The NY Rising Housing Recovery Program, which funds repair, mortgage assistance, flood mitigation and buyouts of... Read more
Mar. 27, 2014
A man who allegedly barricaded himself in his estranged wife's house in Hurley, threatening to shoot anyone who came in after him, was arrested Wednesday after a three-hour standoff with police.
The man, 45-year-old Edward Dixon of Sawkill Road in the... Read more
Mar. 26, 2014
David Reese, an employee of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection who stands accused of fatally shooting his coworker in February, was indicted by an Ulster County grand jury on Tuesday, several news outlets report.
The shooting... Read more
Mar. 25, 2014
Top: Fire engulfs the historic Rexmere Hotel around 11 a.m. on March 25, 2014. Photo by Chris Becker. To see a slideshow of the fire as it destroyed the building in about 20 minutes, see the bottom of this story.
Above: Video of the Rexmere collapsing... Read more
Mar. 24, 2014
A woman in labor who just couldn't make it to the hospital got an assist last week from New York State Police Trooper Timothy West, Jr., who responded to a 911 call just in time to help deliver a baby in a car on a dark, lonely stretch of Route 28 in the... Read more
Mar. 24, 2014
So far, there are more questions than answers in the Greene County town of Windham, where state police conducted a raid on the town hall on Friday in which computers were seized.
The Daily Mail reports that town officials are keeping mum about the raid... Read more
Mar. 20, 2014
Photo by Lissa Harris.
Snow flurries heralded the first day of spring in the upper altitudes of the Catskills today, and there's a chance for more snow showers on Friday. But on Margaretville's Main Street, snowdrops blooming in front of the village hall... Read more
Mar. 17, 2014
Above: A view of New York City's Cannonsville Reservoir in late spring. Photo by Flickr user kmitschke; published under Creative Commons license.
A sound that won't be heard on most of New York City's reservoirs this summer: The whir of electric trolling... Read more
Mar. 17, 2014
At Windham Mountain, even the slopes were clad in St. Patrick's Day green over the weekend. There was plenty of snow on Saturday for Windham's "Irish I Was Skiing/Riding Festival," which featured live music and a skiing leprechaun.
Pictured above: Johan... Read more