Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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Jul. 2, 2010
Only up here in the hills, we call 'em "marihuana." This just in via a press release from the Delaware County Sheriff's Department:
On Thursday, July 1, Delaware County Sheriff's Deputies searched properties located in the towns of Delhi and Davenport... Read more
Jul. 2, 2010
Apparently you can't put the word "abortion" on the side of a giant fiberglass horse in the town of Saugerties. Even in teeny-tiny type. The Freeman's Ivan Lajara reports:
West Shokan writer Martha Frankel informed me on Wednesday night a fiberglass... Read more
Jul. 2, 2010
Reporter Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record promised yesterday that Ulster County denizens would want to pick up the paper this morning -- and he wasn't wrong. Today's big local story is a ripping yarn about three anti-government nuts who allegedly... Read more
Jul. 1, 2010
The state budget is still in scandalous limbo -- and though the New York state Senate has washed its hands of the people's business and gone on Fourth of July vacation, the watchful PACs who lurk in the underbrush of the New York political landscape are... Read more
Jul. 1, 2010
Online at Orion Magazine: A marvelous video on Ray Turner, proprietor of the Delaware Delicacies Smoke House, and the only stone-weir eel fisherman left on the East Coast.
eel•water•rock•man from Orion Magazine on Vimeo.
Turner, a white-bearded sage who... Read more
Jul. 1, 2010
Spring Lake Farm's Ulla Kjarval reflects on American meat-eating, her father's latest cohort of piglets, and the middle ground farms like her family's occupy between animal rights activism and so-called Big Ag.
The cuteness of the piglets are giving me... Read more
Jul. 1, 2010
And despite a massive manhunt, he's still at large. From the Daily Freeman:
The Sheriff’s Office said in a prepared statement late Wednesday that it believes the robber set the fire to draw police away from the center of town so that he could pull off... Read more
Jul. 1, 2010
The vanishingly rare Isotria medeoloides, the small whorled pogonia, has just been found again in New York State. The last time it was spotted within our borders was in an Onandaga County swamp in 1976. A press release from the state office of Parks,... Read more
Jun. 30, 2010
People joke that there are two seasons in the Catskills: winter and the Fourth of July. But the summer is glorious, and never more so than on Independence Day. Towns across the region are putting on their best faces for the big weekend; a squirrel could... Read more
Jun. 30, 2010
If you see a tall thin man with a bandana and a bundle of cash in Ulster County, you might want to call the cops:
Undersheriff Frank Faluotico said the robbery took place at the Bank of America on Mill Hill Road at about 9:20 a.m.
The robber — described... Read more
Jun. 29, 2010
If the four North Carolinians hadn't been busted in Kingston, that is. The Times Herald-Record reports that a carful of alleged drug-possessers were relieved of a rather large amount of hallucinatory booty on Saturday:
The four, all in their 20s and 30s... Read more
Jun. 29, 2010
A fuel tanker and a dump truck crashed on 9W in Esopus around 8:30 this morning, causing a fire that gutted a nearby business and reportedly caused injuries. The Times Herald-Record reports:
The two trucks apparently collided and went partially off the... Read more