Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
Articles
Dec. 5, 2013
Above: A rooster from Horton Hill Farm in Jefferson casts a discerning eye on the Watershed Post's 2014 Catskills Food Guide. Thanks to Horton Hill Farm for the photo.
In the local economy, businesses don't stand alone. They form relationships with each... Read more
Dec. 5, 2013
Above: Middleburgh's newest business, Valley Tax and Accounting, which opened at 296 Main Street on Wednesday, Dec. 4. Downtown Middleburgh was devastated by flooding from Irene and Lee, and recovery has been a long process. But with several new... Read more
Dec. 2, 2013
Ulster County police are looking for two people who robbed a Citgo gas station at gunpoint in the Plattekill hamlet of Modena late Sunday evening.
The robbery occurred around 11 p.m. at 1975 Route 32, according to a news release from the Ulster County... Read more
Dec. 2, 2013
Above: Belleayre Mountain looking good on the first ski weekend of the season. The Catskills' three large ski centers -- Belleayre, Windham and Hunter -- all opened for ski season last weekend. Plattekill Mountain in Roxbury is slated to join them for... Read more
Nov. 27, 2013
Above: Rainfall totals for the storm so far, posted to Facebook by the National Weather Service station in Albany around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.
Rainfall has been heavy in the Catskills during the storm that began Tuesday afternoon. Most areas in... Read more
Nov. 26, 2013
Above: A selection of Catskills dairy products. Photo by Toni Brogan.
The locavore movement has made a celebrity of many a humble ingredient, sparking a renaissance of old-fashioned vegetable varieties and elevating the lowly pork belly to the level of... Read more
Nov. 26, 2013
The Maetreum of Cybele, a former inn in Palenville that is now the spiritual home of a Cybeline Pagan group. Photo by Julia Reischel.
A group of Pagan adherents in Palenville won a major victory in a New York State appellate court last week, when a judge... Read more
Nov. 25, 2013
The Northeast is currently bracing for a midweek storm that threatens to dump snow, ice, sleet and rain on Thanksgiving plans. To the south and west of New York State, snow and rainstorms that will fuel what the National Weather Service is calling a "... Read more
Nov. 22, 2013
Above: AccuWeather graphic showing potential scenarios for a storm that's slated to move up the coast toward the Northeast next week, just in time for Thanksgiving. For more on that, see AccuWeather's Friday story about the storm.
Hang onto your Pilgrim... Read more
Nov. 21, 2013
Above: WIOX station manager Joe Piasek speaking at the opening of the Roxbury radio station on August 27, 2010. Photo by Julia Reischel.
Roxbury public radio station WIOX, a nonprofit high-powered FM station that has been operating since 2010 on 91.3... Read more
Nov. 21, 2013
In the rural Catskills, 2013 was the Year of the Absentee Voter.
On Nov. 5, Election Day, dozens of races around the region were too close to call from the machine count alone. In a few of them, a count of the absentee and affidavit ballots reversed the... Read more
Nov. 18, 2013
A snapped utility pole in front of Tom's Tire Barn in Walton early Monday morning. Photos by LeAnne Browning; reproduced with permission.
A windstorm that moved through the Catskills region in the early-morning hours of Monday, Nov. 18 hit especially... Read more
Nov. 7, 2013
Above: Democratic supervisor Marge Miller and Republican challenger Nelson Delameter, of the Delaware County town of Middletown. In unofficial results from the county Board of Elections, Delameter bested Miller by just 22 votes.
Most of Tuesday's races... Read more
Nov. 6, 2013
The results of Tuesday's local elections are in -- some expected, some surprising, and some still hanging in the balance as absentee ballots that could decide close races continue to roll in. We posted highlights from local races live on Twitter Tuesday... Read more
Oct. 29, 2013
Above: The Stamford Country Store on 2 Harper Street, which was robbed on Saturday by a masked man wielding a kitchen knife. Source: Google Street View.
As if Halloween in the Catskills weren't scary enough: In the last few days, two Delaware County... Read more
Oct. 24, 2013
November 5 is coming up soon, but if you're still on the fence about who you'll be voting for, it's not too late to do a little pre-election research. On Saturday, October 26, voters in the Ulster County towns of Olive and Shandaken will have a chance to... Read more
Oct. 23, 2013
Above: A white-tailed deer browses at the shore of the Ashokan Reservoir. Photo by Flickr user Ken Ficara; published under Creative Commons license.
Local hunters, New York City wants your help: The burgeoning deer population around the Ashokan Reservoir... Read more
Oct. 23, 2013
In today's Walton Reporter is a must-read story about the case of Jeanie Groat, a Walton resident who is serving a two-week jail sentence for disorderly conduct, after cursing at an official at a horse show in 2010.
According to the Reporter, the charge... Read more
Oct. 22, 2013
Earlier this month, schoolchildren across the Catskills learned about fire safety during National Fire Prevention Week. Here's Gianna Muellerleile, daughter of Shandaken ambulance captain Rich Muellerleile, suiting up for the cause. Rich, who sometimes... Read more
Oct. 17, 2013
Above: The remains of Sundae's, a restaurant on Route 23 in Grand Gorge that was destroyed by an early-morning fire on Monday. It's the second time in a month a business has burned down in Grand Gorge; in the wee hours of September 27, Becker's Tire... Read more