Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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Jan. 23, 2014
A Delhi 16-year-old was arrested Wednesday after leading state police on a high-speed chase on Route 28, eventually ditching his car and fleeing into the woods.
Around 4:40 in the afternoon on Wednesday, Jan. 22, state police responded to a report of an... Read more
Jan. 23, 2014
Above: Even in subzero weather, Roxbury looks picture-perfect. Photo taken Wednesday at sunset by Greg Henderson of the Roxbury Motel.
Above: It's a nippy 4.1 degrees right now on Belleayre Mountain, but the freshly-groomed corduroy looks pretty... Read more
Jan. 22, 2014
Meet the elusive ice circle: An unusual ice formation that occurs on slow-moving water during intense cold weather. In the video above, posted today by the folks at the Woodstock Inn On The Millstream, a broad ice circle rotates slowly in the Millstream'... Read more
Jan. 22, 2014
Above: New York State Agricultural Society President Diane Held congratulates Schoharie County farmer Richard Ball, recently appointed as New York State's new Commissioner of Agriculture, at the group's 2014 forum on New York agriculture. Photo from the... Read more
Jan. 22, 2014
Five live rounds and a spent casing. Closeup photo of .45 ammo by Flickr user kcdsTM; published under Creative Commons license.
A popular Delaware County gun shop, Lyn's Leisure Tyme Gun Shop in Davenport, was raided last Thursday by federal Alcohol,... Read more
Jan. 21, 2014
Don't go out there, kitty. Photo taken in Andes over the weekend by Mark Zilberman; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
It's baaa-aaaaack: The polar vortex, a whirling mass of low-pressure frigid air that usually has the decency to stay far... Read more
Jan. 17, 2014
Above: Inge Grafe-Kieklak, plaintiff in a recent lawsuit challenging a Sidney town moratorium on gas drilling, demonstrates at a pro-drilling rally in Albany on Oct. 15, 2012. Grafe-Kieklak's sign, written in her native German, translates: "Gov. Cuomo,... Read more
Jan. 16, 2014
Left: Gabrielle Alexis Kamlet. Photo courtesy of the Kingston Police Department.
Kingston police are looking for an Olivebridge 17-year-old who was reported missing by family members on Wednesday, Jan. 15.
Gabrielle Alexis Kamlet was last seen around... Read more
Jan. 14, 2014
Above: Doug McLaurine and Robin Factor, owners and founders of Roxbury General, stand in front of the building that will soon house the town's newest Main Street business. Photo by Suzanna Finley; published with permission.
There's no denying it:... Read more
Jan. 14, 2014
A breath of winter mist hovers over the Schoharie Creek. Photo taken Sunday, Jan. 5; with the past few days' warm weather, the cool blues of this evanescent Catskills landscape have given way to a more somber palette of thawing greys and browns.
Photo by... Read more
Jan. 10, 2014
Above: A running spigot at Hubbell Bros. in the Delaware County town of Middletown gets the polar vortex treatment. Photo taken on Wednesday by Watershed Post reader Burr Hubbell, who writes, "The water's still running inside that icicle thingy. It's... Read more
Jan. 8, 2014
Still life with fence post. Photos (top and bottom) by Walter Putrycz.
Snowy owls are creatures of the tundra, and a rare sight this far south of the Arctic Circle. But this winter, the ghost-white birds have been turning up across the Northeastern U.S... Read more
Jan. 7, 2014
Above: Screenshot from Central Hudson's outage map showing widespread power outages in the Ulster County towns of Woodstock and Olive.
On Tuesday evening, with temperatures in the single digits and subzero wind chills, Central Hudson was reporting... Read more
Jan. 7, 2014
Don't touch that dial (til 10 p.m.). Closeup photo of washing machine control panel by Flickr user Chris Dillon; published under Creative Commons license.
Officials at the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), the nonprofit company that manages... Read more
Jan. 7, 2014
Above: Middleburgh's long-defunct ice skating rink, now operating again thanks to some ingenuity and this week's deep freeze. Photo posted on Facebook by Middleburgh mayor Matthew Avitabile.
It's been ten years since anyone cut a figure eight on the ice... Read more
Jan. 6, 2014
Left: An image taken from a NY Thruway traffic webcam near Exit 57 at 3:21 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 6. For more Thruway webcams in the Buffalo region, see this page on the NY Thruway website.
The New York State Thruway will be partially shut down due to... Read more
Jan. 6, 2014
Above: A chilly early-morning scene in the Schoharie County town of Esperance, taken Sunday morning by Flickr user A Man Called ACME. It's about to get chillier, as a front of Arctic air sends temperatures plunging across the Northeast. Photo shared in... Read more
Jan. 4, 2014
Thousands of households in rural Delaware County lost power during the early morning hours on Saturday, January 4, in a NYSEG power outage that struck on the same night as a brutal cold snap.
The outage struck over 4,000 of NYSEG's customers in the... Read more
Jan. 3, 2014
Above: The view from the newly-opened Windfall trail at Windham Mountain, where about a foot of light, powdery snow fell during the recent snowstorm. Belleayre, Hunter and Plattekill are also rejoicing in a bumper crop of fresh powder.
Skies over the... Read more
Jan. 2, 2014
In a news conference this afternoon, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared that several major roads in New York State would be closed late tonight because of the snowstorm bearing down on the Northeast.
In the Hudson Valley, I-84 will be closed to commercial... Read more