Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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Oct. 7, 2013
Above: Adirondack chairs strewn across a Delaware County backyard by Monday's windstorms. Photographer Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, who shared the photo with us, said the winds tossed the chairs 20 or 30 feet.
Heavy rainstorms and high winds that swept across... Read more
Oct. 7, 2013
Above: Postmaster Brenda Finch-Hasay checks out the damage to her car, behind the Arkville post office on Monday. Photos by Lissa Harris.
An intense rainstorm that blew through Arkville around 2pm on Monday afternoon inflicted at least one casualty: The... Read more
Oct. 7, 2013
Above: Graphic showing a tornado watch stretching across several mid-Atlantic and New England states on Monday, October 7, issued by the National Weather Service in Albany.
A tornado watch is in effect for a large area of upstate New York, including the... Read more
Oct. 4, 2013
Waterfall on the Esopus Creek in Saugerties. Photo by Flickr user Sonja Stark; published under Creative Commons license.
By state government standards, it's a small document: Just 34 pages. But to Lower Esopus residents, who have been waiting a long time... Read more
Sep. 30, 2013
So that's how they pick those things up. Above: Lazy Crazy Acres, cow-to-cone gelato makers in Arkville, make hay while the sun shines.
Happy Monday, Catskills. We're just about at the midpoint of leaf turning this week, according to the foliage spotters... Read more
Sep. 27, 2013
Above: An Arkville Fire Department truck at the scene of a fire at Becker's Tire Service on Route 30 in Grand Gorge. Photo by Lissa Harris.
A massive fire that broke out just past midnight on Thursday night gutted Becker's Tire Service, a longstanding... Read more
Sep. 27, 2013
Photo of empty post office box by Flickr user Bryan Alexander. Published under Creative Commons license.
In news, timing is critical. As the old reporter's saying goes: Yesterday's news wraps today's fish.
No wonder River Reporter managing editor Jane... Read more
Sep. 26, 2013
Ride safe, Catskills: Two local skateboarders have collided with cars in the last week, one of whom was killed. Photo of Jart skateboard by Flickr user Steffen Ramsaier; published under Creative Commons license.
On Tuesday, a Long Island teenager on a... Read more
Sep. 25, 2013
Above: A dramatic photo of Lower Esopus turbidity, submitted to the Times Herald-Record in October 2010 and republished with permission.
A long-overdue agreement governing New York City's release of turbid water from the Ashokan Reservoir into the Lower... Read more
Sep. 24, 2013
Above: Work begins in earnest at the Phoenicia Library this week, gutted by fire in March of 2011 and currently occupying a temporary space on Ava Maria Drive. According to a newsletter from library director Liz Potter, restoration work on the building... Read more
Sep. 23, 2013
It's that time of year once again. Photo taken in Monticello on September 18 by John of Catskills Photography; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
Sunday marked the official arrival of autumn, and brought some cooler weather along with it.... Read more
Sep. 23, 2013
Above: A video produced by Sean Eldridge's campaign, announcing the 27-year-old Democrat's bid for New York State's 19th Congressional district. Source: Eldridge's campaign website.
With the release of a campaign video Sunday, 27-year-old Democrat Sean... Read more
Sep. 20, 2013
A 50-year-old man was killed late Thursday night when he skateboarded into the path of a state police cruiser on Route 23A in the village of Tannersville.
According to a New York State Police statement issued Friday, 50-year-old Bernard Hamilton of... Read more
Sep. 19, 2013
The Internet: It really is a series of tubes. Photo of data cable by Flickr user Arild Nybø; published under Creative Commons license.
A long-awaited project to bring high-speed broadband internet and cable televison to some of the most rural towns in... Read more
Sep. 16, 2013
Above: A document showing a roughly 1,200-acre parcel acquired by the state in Big Indian, near the Belleayre Ski Center. Source: DEC website.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation has announced that the agency has completed a proposal to... Read more
Sep. 13, 2013
Above: Deputy John Demeo and K-9 Osman "Ozzie" Steele, the Delaware County Sheriff's Office's newest drug law enforcement team. Ozzie is the namesake of a famous Catskills officer of the law: Undersheriff Osman Steele, who was the only casualty of the... Read more
Sep. 13, 2013
Above: Sunrise over the dividing weir that separates the Ashokan Reservoir's east and west basins. Photo by Tim Cox; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
'Tis the season for road work, apparently: Next week, several construction projects... Read more
Sep. 12, 2013
A round of intense thunderstorms is headed east across upstate New York this afternoon. We're keeping track of fast-moving Catskills weather updates in the Storify post below. As we add new updates, the latest news will automatically appear at the bottom... Read more
Sep. 12, 2013
In the unlikely event that you've lost power and are still able to read this post, keep your fridge door shut, say officials at Delaware County Public Health Services, who sent out a press release this morning warning that food can spoil quickly when the... Read more
Sep. 11, 2013
Ulster County primary election results from Tuesday are in -- and in a few of the hottest races, incumbents kept their party lines against challengers.
In Woodstock, where challengers Lorin Rose and Terrie Rosenblum sought to unseat incumbent Jeremy... Read more