Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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Dec. 13, 2013
Above: Video from surveillance cameras at Oorah BoyZone, a Jewish children's camp in the Schoharie County town of Jefferson. In the video, posted on Oorah's YouTube channel, one of the burglars can be seen climbing through a broken window and letting two... Read more
Dec. 12, 2013
Above: Ulster County executive Mike Hein looking cheerful about some DEP news, for a change. From a joint news conference held Dec. 12 in Kingston; photo courtesy of the Ulster County Executive's Office.
There's not much love lost between Ulster County... Read more
Dec. 10, 2013
A former Middletown town justice who was removed from office by a state commission, and accused of favoritism and ticket-fixing, has lost his appeal to have his removal from office overturned.
In a 6-1 decision issued on Dec. 10, the New York State Court... Read more
Dec. 10, 2013
Above: Evenden Tower at SUNY Delhi. Photo from a photo tour of the SUNY Delhi campus on the college's website.
Two buildings at SUNY Delhi were evacuated early this morning, after a bomb threat was called in to university police and Delaware County 911... Read more
Dec. 10, 2013
In the forecast for the lower Hudson Valley today: Heavy snow, with the chance of more than six inches accumulating in some spots, according to the folks at Hudson Valley Weather. There's a winter weather advisory on for Orange and Rockland counties west... Read more
Dec. 9, 2013
A family on Hungry Hill in the Delaware County town of Hancock was forced to evacuate their home for the night on Thursday, December 5, after workers building the new Millennium Pipeline natural gas compression station knocked on their door and told them... Read more
Dec. 9, 2013
Three young Cairo residents have been charged with breaking into a local home and stealing a four-wheeler, state police announced Monday.
Arrested on Saturday, Dec. 7 were 19-year-old Michael Greenholtz, 18-year-old Maria Santarelli, and 21-year-old... Read more
Dec. 6, 2013
Above: A photo of Hanover Farms taken in March of 2012, during the construction of an illegal addition that triggered a legal battle between the farmstand and the town of Shandaken. Photo by Rusty Mae Moore.
In a fierce legal battle between the town of... Read more
Dec. 6, 2013
Above: Hand-painted glassware by Lilian Miccio, one of the artisan vendors at the Holiday Extravaganza at the Roxbury Arts Center, Dec. 7-8. Photo from the Roxbury Arts Group's Facebook page.
Holiday shoppers: Looking for something you can't find on... Read more
Dec. 5, 2013
Above: A rooster from Horton Hill Farm in Jefferson casts a discerning eye on the Watershed Post's 2014 Catskills Food Guide. Thanks to Horton Hill Farm for the photo.
In the local economy, businesses don't stand alone. They form relationships with each... Read more
Dec. 5, 2013
Above: Middleburgh's newest business, Valley Tax and Accounting, which opened at 296 Main Street on Wednesday, Dec. 4. Downtown Middleburgh was devastated by flooding from Irene and Lee, and recovery has been a long process. But with several new... Read more
Dec. 2, 2013
Ulster County police are looking for two people who robbed a Citgo gas station at gunpoint in the Plattekill hamlet of Modena late Sunday evening.
The robbery occurred around 11 p.m. at 1975 Route 32, according to a news release from the Ulster County... Read more
Dec. 2, 2013
Above: Belleayre Mountain looking good on the first ski weekend of the season. The Catskills' three large ski centers -- Belleayre, Windham and Hunter -- all opened for ski season last weekend. Plattekill Mountain in Roxbury is slated to join them for... Read more
Nov. 27, 2013
Above: Rainfall totals for the storm so far, posted to Facebook by the National Weather Service station in Albany around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.
Rainfall has been heavy in the Catskills during the storm that began Tuesday afternoon. Most areas in... Read more
Nov. 26, 2013
Above: A selection of Catskills dairy products. Photo by Toni Brogan.
The locavore movement has made a celebrity of many a humble ingredient, sparking a renaissance of old-fashioned vegetable varieties and elevating the lowly pork belly to the level of... Read more
Nov. 26, 2013
The Maetreum of Cybele, a former inn in Palenville that is now the spiritual home of a Cybeline Pagan group. Photo by Julia Reischel.
A group of Pagan adherents in Palenville won a major victory in a New York State appellate court last week, when a judge... Read more
Nov. 25, 2013
The Northeast is currently bracing for a midweek storm that threatens to dump snow, ice, sleet and rain on Thanksgiving plans. To the south and west of New York State, snow and rainstorms that will fuel what the National Weather Service is calling a "... Read more
Nov. 25, 2013
Steven Walker. Photo courtesy of the New York State Police.
A Wright man was arrested last week for allegedly pulling three healthy permanent teeth from the mouth of a developmentally disabled eight-year-old girl in his care.
Gallupville resident Steven... Read more
Nov. 25, 2013
An argument in the Delaware County hamlet of Fishs Eddy in the early hours of Saturday morning took a deadly turn, when a man apparently injured a woman and then took his own life.
State police responded to a report of an assault at 479 County Route 28... Read more
Nov. 22, 2013
Above: AccuWeather graphic showing potential scenarios for a storm that's slated to move up the coast toward the Northeast next week, just in time for Thanksgiving. For more on that, see AccuWeather's Friday story about the storm.
Hang onto your Pilgrim... Read more