Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
Articles
Aug. 30, 2010
Sullivan County just released a draft of its emergency Hazard Mitigation Plan, based on several years' worth of public meetings, questionnaires and planning sessions with towns and villages.
According to the county's best estimates, if disaster's going... Read more
Aug. 30, 2010
Just published in the Federal Register for Wednesday, September 15: A meeting of the DRBC at the West Trenton Volunteer Fire Company, 40 West Upper Ferry Road, West Trenton, New Jersey.
There's a lot of boilerplate stuff on the agenda, but this item... Read more
Aug. 30, 2010
A new 14' Raven float rod. A basket full of flies. A beautiful Sunday on the Esopus. What could be better?
Unfortunately for Paul over at the Angling Journal, many of the region's most exquisitely irritating individuals apparently thought so too. While... Read more
Aug. 29, 2010
The paywall goes up September 14.
Non-subscribers can still see some content for free, the paper announces:
Without one of the online subscriptions, the number of times that recordonline.com local content can be accessed for free will be limited to three... Read more
Aug. 29, 2010
Last we heard, Liberty's free-movies-in-the-park series had been shut down because nobody bothered to get a license from the film-rights company. Then some good Samaritans chipped in to buy the movie rights so it could go on.
Now, it seems, some... Read more
Aug. 29, 2010
Down in Orange County, the last dairy cows in New Windsor went up on the auction block Friday. The Times Herald-Record was there to record another step in the long death march of New York State dairy farming:
The result has been the closing of 207 dairy... Read more
Aug. 27, 2010
This just in: The CJR is suing the state of New York for access to email correspondence between Gov. Paterson's former PR staff and members of the press. The journal is looking for emails from around the time of an exceptionally weird period of Albany... Read more
Aug. 27, 2010
Photo of Pushy Galore from B.R.A.W.L.
Tonight at the Bearsville Theatre: Valium-addled housewives and vengeful Puritans in hand-to-hand combat. WWF-style theatrics. Roving packs of vicious cheerleaders. What's not to love?
Since its explosive arrival on... Read more
Aug. 27, 2010
As regular readers of this website will no doubt remember, Tom Murray -- Cobleskill's N-bomb-dropping, national-news-making town supervisor -- has been facing some righteous citizen outrage lately. Much of it is coming from a group calling itself ACCORD... Read more
Aug. 26, 2010
47-year-old William Pitney of New Jersey was killed today in a tractor accident, the Daily Freeman reports:
Deputies said they were called to the property on Sunside Road in Durham about 12:40 p.m. and, upon arriving, found William Jackson Pitney, 47... Read more
Aug. 26, 2010
Greene County legislators aren't the only ones asking questions about IDAs lately. Just released: A damning report on state Industrial Development Agencies, a team effort by NY Jobs With Justice and Urban Agenda. The report, un-subtly titled "No Return... Read more
Aug. 25, 2010
The EPA might not be able to get its act together to organize a public meeting on hydrofracking, but the New York City Council hosted one last night at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. On hand: A few hundred concerned citizens, mostly anti-... Read more
Aug. 25, 2010
The Catskills region currently has its hands full fighting an invading horde of small green aliens. But an even more deadly battle is brewing: Their bigger, badder black-and-white cousins are lurking downstate, waiting for the opportunity to strike.
They... Read more
Aug. 24, 2010
Announced today: The awarding of $3.4 billion in federal stimulus funds earmarked for education -- a.k.a. "Race To The Top" funding -- to nine states and the District of Columbia. Including New York.
In the first round, New York placed 15th out of 16... Read more