Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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Oct. 2, 2010
According to a press release issued by the Delaware County Sheriff's Office at 6:30 this morning, the state of emergency has been lifted in all towns in the county, and the roads are open. But they do caution:
Some roads remain affected within the county... Read more
Oct. 1, 2010
Beth Adams of Hobart caught an entire field of pumpkins making a break for it in Davenport this morning. (Just in time. The Halloween hordes are about to descend, carving knives in hand.)
Go free, pumpkins!
As of 4pm, Davenport was still under a state... Read more
Oct. 1, 2010
This properly belongs in our Shandaken flooding roundup, but it's so awesome we gave it its own post. Our hats are off, to you, O pseudonymous videographer goCatskills, for this epic footage of flooding all around Phoenicia. Set to Beethoven's Fifth, no... Read more
Oct. 1, 2010
10/2, 10am update: The state of emergency was lifted in all towns, as of 6:30 this morning.
10/1, 10:30pm update: The Delaware county Sheriff's Office announced tonight that Delhi, Hamden, Walton and Davenport remain under a state of emergency, and all... Read more
Oct. 1, 2010
Above: Big Tree Field at the Frost Valley YMCA in Claryville this morning. Photo by Frost Valley YMCA. Below: Photo of Claryville Fire Dept. by Jennifer Grimes.
County Bridge 364 is washed out, says the Catskill Chronicle.
"The County will send a bridge... Read more
Oct. 1, 2010
Reader Larry Reilly snapped a few photos of the swollen Schoharie Creek this morning while driving along Route 23A:
Ya think?
Don't go there.
Apparently that used to be a yard.
Update: We're losing our minds from all this flood news. I accidentally... Read more
Oct. 1, 2010
Reader Lynne Resch snapped these photos of the Little Delaware from Main Street this morning while coming back from Russell's Store (amazingly, it's open):
Click here for our main story on flooding throughout the Catskills region. We will be posting... Read more
Oct. 1, 2010
Above: The Delaware River north of Delhi. Photo by Cynthia Dunne. Below: Photo collage of the West Branch from Bridge Street this morning, by Fred Harris.
The Red Cross has set up an emergency shelter at the United Ministry Church in Delhi, and some... Read more
Oct. 1, 2010
Reader Cassandra Olin sent us a few pictures she took this morning. This one's from behind the railroad:
And this one's from the bridge on the corner of Route 28 and Dry Brook Road:
Olin writes:
On either side of the river is a trailer park that is also... Read more
Oct. 1, 2010
The villages of Livingston Manor and Roscoe in the Town of Rockland are experiencing significant flooding, according to the Sullivan County website, and the town of Rockland has declared a state of emergency, according to County Manager David Faslau:
The... Read more
Sep. 30, 2010
Poor little Sidney. One day, it's just like any other town in Delaware County, where people leave their cars unlocked on Main Street and the latest scandal tends to be about some new wood-boiler regulation. Next thing you know, it's on national... Read more
Sep. 30, 2010
There's a flood watch in effect for some of the Catskills region today and tonight. (Surprise, surprise.) For the western Catskills, from NOAA:
OTSEGO-DELAWARE-SULLIVAN-PIKE-SOUTHERN WAYNE-430 AM EDT THU SEP 30 2010
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT... Read more
Sep. 29, 2010
Yesterday's fire in Saugerties destroyed 123 Partition St., which housed a wine store and five apartments, the Daily Freeman reports, but no one was hurt in the blaze:
No one who lives or works in the building was injured, though one firefighter strained... Read more
Sep. 29, 2010
On Monday, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann anointed Sidney town supervisor Bob McCarthy the day's "Worst Person In The World," for leading a charge to dig up a local Sufi community's tiny cemetery over a nebulous permitting issue.
No TV personality can ever... Read more