Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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Apr. 19, 2013
Orville Slutzky, co-founder of the Hunter Mountain ski center, family patriarch, and a well-known community figure and philanthropist, died on Thursday, April 18 at the age of 96. Hunter Mountain will hold a memorial service this Sunday, April 21.
An... Read more
Apr. 19, 2013
Photo by Flickr user Chris Costes; published under Creative Commons license.
Sharpen your No. 2 pencils, kids. This week, public-school students in third through eighth grade across New York State buckled down at their desks for the first round of tough... Read more
Apr. 17, 2013
Above: Scale model of the planned hotel and lodge buildings at Highmount -- part of the proposed Belleayre Resort project -- from a supplemental draft environmental impact statement released Wednesday by the DEC.
The long-planned Belleayre Resort project... Read more
Apr. 17, 2013
A man was arrested after allegedly shooting another man in the face with an air pistol on 5th Street in Narrowsburg on Sunday evening, police say.
Narrowsburg resident Eric Hector, 48, is charged with assault in the second degree and criminal possession... Read more
Apr. 16, 2013
Eighteen runners from the Catskills region -- Delaware, Greene, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster Counties -- were among those registered for the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15, where explosions killed at least three people and injured over 140.
The... Read more
Apr. 15, 2013
Catskill: Not a bunch of mountains in upstate New York. Photo by Flickr user Doug Kerr; published under Creative Commons license.
You've got to feel for the village of Catskill. It's forever getting confused with the Catskills -- a region that the little... Read more
Apr. 15, 2013
A water main break in the village of Coxsackie that occurred around 2am Monday has shut down Route 385, put the village under a boil-water alert, and delayed the opening of schools in the village.
A message posted on NY-Alert this morning states that... Read more
Apr. 12, 2013
The area around Vinnie's Farm Market on Route 32 in Saugerties just got a little safer, cops say.
An investigation into ongoing complaints of heroin sales near the fruit stand has yielded an arrest. On Tuesday, the Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement... Read more
Apr. 12, 2013
Photo of Ashokan Reservoir Fountain by Flickr user ianbckwltr; published under Creative Commons license.
Part of the public area near the Ashokan Reservoir Fountain will be closed until April 25 while a contractor cleans up hundreds of trees damaged or... Read more
Apr. 11, 2013
Above: Part one of a video of a contentious WJFF board meeting held on March 20. You can see part two below.
A public spat over the management of WJFF, a community public radio station broadcasting at 90.5 FM from Jeffersonville, came to a head Wednesday... Read more
Apr. 10, 2013
An old rule of etiquette: Don't discuss religion or politics at the dinner table. In upstate New York, one might banish two more incendiary topics from polite dining conversation: Fracking and gun control.
Since the hasty and controversial passage of... Read more
Apr. 10, 2013
The Daily Freeman reports that Frederick Schussler Jr., life member and former assistant chief of the Lomontville Fire Department, was killed on Wednesday when a car he was working on fell on him:
The man — identified by his sister as Frederick Schussler... Read more
Apr. 10, 2013
From a glance at the New York State Police blotter, the arrest of two Stamford women on Monday evening on minor charges, after a "disturbance" at a local restaurant, doesn't look too unusual.
But a local man who witnessed the incident described a... Read more
Apr. 10, 2013
An off-duty New York State Police trooper has been arrested after allegedly breaking his girlfriend's nose during a domestic dispute in her Highland home on Friday, April 5.
The victim reported the incident to state police on Saturday.
Investigator Louis... Read more
Apr. 9, 2013
Pro tip: Don't lose these. Photo of kayak paddle by Flickr user Jan Smith; published under Creative Commons license.
Two men from Pine Bush who hoped to kayak the Neversink River on Sunday, from Holiday Mountain to Cuddebackville, had to be rescued by... Read more
Apr. 9, 2013
Above: The Catskill mountains still waking up to spring, seen from a high perch atop Sam's Point in Ellenville. Photo taken April 7, 2013 by Ethan Myers; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr pool.
Blue sky, blue hills -- and a vivid green landscape that... Read more
Apr. 8, 2013
Above: The last FEMA trailer in the village of Schoharie being towed away from Mary and Jim Bryant's front yard on Thursday, April 4. Photo by Alison Bryant; used by permission of Schoharie Area Long Term Recovery.
The flood-ravaged village of Schoharie... Read more
Apr. 8, 2013
The Onteora Central School District will appoint an interim principal to serve out the rest of the school year at Phoenicia Elementary, whose principal Linda Sella was placed on administrative leave in February.
Since Sella was forced to step down from... Read more
Apr. 8, 2013
A Prattsville home coated in ankle-deep mud after the 2011 Irene floods. Photo by All Hands Volunteers; published on Flickr under Creative Commons license.
In August of 2011, flooding from Tropical Storm Irene wreaked incredible damage on the Greene... Read more
Apr. 5, 2013
Above: Amphenol's Sidney manufacturing plant on September 9, 2011, after back-to-back floods from Irene and Lee caused heavy damage at the plant. Screenshot from video shot by state Senator John Bonacic.
Aerospace manufacturer Amphenol, whose Sidney... Read more