Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
Articles
Sep. 29, 2010
If the O+ Festival was nothing more than a brand-new, three-day-long orgy of music, film and art happening all over Kingston, we'd be jazzed about it. But it's more than that. O+ (pronounced “O positive”) is built around an idea that just might transform... Read more
Sep. 27, 2010
Busted: Two Cairo men allegedly caught in the act of boosting 500 pounds of copper wire from an empty house. The Daily Mail reports that they've got some other issues, too:
[Chester] Kilmer was additionally charged with seventh-degree criminal... Read more
Sep. 24, 2010
Elvis feels the burn at Warrior Dash, a race that travels all over the country combining the raw athleticism of the triathlon, the geeky anarchy of Comic Con, and the muddy fervor of that bigass battle in Braveheart. Missed the race at Windham last... Read more
Sep. 24, 2010
A controversial Common Council bill to control Kingston's cat population has hit a roadblock. Mayor James Sottile vetoed the law at a public hearing last night, to the delight of several dozen onlookers. The Daily Freeman reports:
The mayor said he did... Read more
Sep. 23, 2010
From the Ulster County Sheriff's Department:
Detectives from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office ICAC (Internet Crimes Against Children) Unit report the arrest of Nicholas A. Collins, age 23, of 33 Green Street, Kingston, NY, for numerous counts of... Read more
Sep. 23, 2010
In the New York Times yesterday (via Greenwire): Congressman Maurice Hinchey pressed the Obama administration, via its representative on the Delaware River Basin Commission, to halt Marcellus gas drilling in New York and Pennsylvania until his proposed $... Read more
Sep. 23, 2010
Note to would-be felons: If you want to get away with stealing an old lady's credit cards, don't turn up at her house at 2:30 in the morning a couple of days later. From the Ulster County Sheriff's Department:
Deputies from the Ulster County Sheriff's... Read more
Sep. 22, 2010
Screenshot from "Windfall."
This week, Andes part-timer Stanley Fish, an opinion columnist for the New York Times, weighed in (again) on the controversial topic of wind power development in upstate New York. Fish, a die-hard opponent of local wind power... Read more
Sep. 21, 2010
The Daily Star reports today that two former SUNY Delhi students, 21-year-old Darwyn Lynch and 21-year-old Edy Toussaint, were arrested and arraigned in Delaware County Court on Monday. The two were charged with the rape of a fellow student on September... Read more
Sep. 20, 2010
Schoharie County resident Adolph Schrull Jr. died Friday when the tractor he was using to drag a hay rake out of a field flipped onto him, CBS 6 reports:
According to State Police, Adolph Schrull, Jr., of Worcester, N.Y., was attempting with a friend to... Read more
Sep. 20, 2010
This black bear, captured on surveillance video on Hunter Mountain a couple of weeks ago, isn't really getting anywhere in his quest for midnight munchies until around the 1:27 mark. That's when he (or she?) finds the motherlode of donut holes.
Sep. 20, 2010
Linda Norris, a Treadwell resident and the mind behind a thoughtful blog called The Uncataloged Museum, posed a provocative question yesterday: Are county historical societies dying? And if so, is it their own fault?
There's no question that part of the... Read more
Sep. 20, 2010
With the November elections just around the corner, realtor David Knudsen reminds all you flatlanders -- er, "second-home owners" -- that you can vote here, even if it's not your primary residence. And with so much about the future of rural New York at... Read more
Sep. 18, 2010
Lately, upstate New York has been buzzing with film crews, as the industry searches for alternatives to shooting in expensive L.A. and New York City. Jane Fonda on location in Woodstock! Sundance bait in Sullivan County!
All this action is undoubtedly... Read more
Sep. 17, 2010
It's despised by flyfishers everywhere. It's a blight on the ecosystem of the trout stream. And it's coated the bottom of the Esopus with a foul goop with all the charm of a wad of wet toilet paper. How could rock snot ever be beautiful?
Most people tend... Read more
Sep. 17, 2010
Drama is brewing over a pre-Civil-War barn in Woodstock, recently transformed into a gallery called Vivo Fine Art that opened this summer. The Woodstock Times reports that by painting a big sunburst on the side of the building without proper permission... Read more
Sep. 16, 2010
Is New York City's water kosher? That depends on your perspective -- after all, it is swimming with tiny, harmless shrimplike organisms called copepods.
Earlier this summer, an enterprising blogger added a common laboratory stain to New York City tap... Read more
Sep. 16, 2010
Catskill Mountain Thunder Motorcycle Rally
The biggest motorcycle party of the season starts tonight at 5pm in East Durham during the kickoff of the annual Catskill Mountain Thunder festival. Shows, vendors, tattoos, fireworks, several long, scenic rides... Read more