Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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Sep. 11, 2013
Results are in for Tuesday's primaries in four Greene County towns: Athens, New Baltimore, Prattsville and Windham. All results are still unofficial, and with absentee ballots yet to be counted, the balance could shift in close races.
Prattsville's... Read more
Sep. 11, 2013
Unofficial results are in from Tuesday's primaries in eight Sullivan County towns: Bethel, Fremont, Liberty, Lumberland, Mamakating, Neversink, Thompson and Tusten. Absentee ballots have not yet been counted, and a few races are too close to call before... Read more
Sep. 11, 2013
Five Delaware County towns held primary elections on Tuesday: Andes, Colchester, Delhi, Kortright and Middletown. Unofficial results are in for all five, although two races are close enough that absentee ballots that have yet to be counted could shift... Read more
Sep. 9, 2013
Some local voters registered with a political party will have a chance to weigh in at the polls on Tuesday, September 10. The local races underway in the region may not be as headline-grabbing as others in the state -- New York City mayoral race, anyone... Read more
Sep. 6, 2013
Update, 7pm: The Daily Freeman reported Friday afternoon that 90-year-old Elizabeth Askue, a well-known member of the Hurley community, was found dead in a wooded area near her home.
New York State Police released a statement later in the day:
"On... Read more
Sep. 5, 2013
A Catskills bumblebee forages on clover. Photo posted on Instagram this morning by Sean Mahoney.
Happy Thursday, Catskills. The hour has come at last: There's a chance of patchy frost in tonight's forecast, with temperatures expected to dip down into the... Read more
Sep. 4, 2013
Meet Steve Heller's Cro-Magnum: The body of a 2006 Dodge Magnum, the tail fins of a 1957 DeSoto, the bumpers of a couple of mid-century Cadillacs, and 160 silver bullets welded to the front grille. With its modern body and its collage of parts from... Read more
Aug. 29, 2013
Above: Turbid water from the Lower Esopus mixes with clearer water in the Hudson River. Photo taken by Riverkeeper in November of 2011, when turbidity in New York City's Catskill watershed and the Lower Esopus Creek was still high as a result of the... Read more
Aug. 26, 2013
Michael Jacobs, mayor of the Delaware County village of Stamford and a prominent local lawyer with the firm of Jacobs & Jacobs, died suddenly on Saturday.
The Daily Star reports that the cause of Jacobs' death was a heart attack, according to family... Read more
Aug. 23, 2013
A flowing Catskills stream, photographed by James McCracken in Hunter. A newly-revised midterm draft of a ten-year plan for the management of New York City's unfiltered watershed calls for almost $40 million in new funding to keep the Catskills' many... Read more
Aug. 23, 2013
A three-month investigation into illegal drug activity in Ulster County came to a head in the pre-dawn hours on Thursday morning, when police raided homes and arrested 16 people in Ulster, Dutchess and Orange counties on multiple drug sale and possession... Read more
Aug. 20, 2013
Above: H.L. Wilson in his natural habitat. Photo by Tess Mayer.
Local bookstore proprietor H.L. Wilson died suddenly on Saturday, August 17, of complications from a stroke. He was 71.
Since 1996, H.L. and his wife Linda Wilson have run (and lived in)... Read more
Aug. 19, 2013
Two Gloucestershire Old Spot pigs take a nap in the shade at Horton Hill Farm in Jefferson. Photo taken during Schoharie County Family Farm Day, Saturday August 17, by Jennifer Strom. For more photos from Family Farm Day, see the Catskills Food Guide's... Read more
Aug. 13, 2013
Update, 11:37pm: The Fallsburg Police Department has just informed us that Ethan Graham has been found and is in good health.
A search is on for a missing child in the Sullivan County town of Fallsburg tonight. Nine-year-old Ethan Graham was last seen... Read more
Aug. 13, 2013
A new principal has been appointed for the Woodstock Primary School, the Onteora Central School District announced today.
Kathleen O'Brien is taking over for retiring principal Bobbi Schnell. O'Brien may be a familiar face to some in the district; from... Read more
Aug. 12, 2013
Above: Fresh-harvested garlic and handmade garlic roasters from Barber's Farm, a family farm in the Schoharie County town of Middleburgh. This Saturday, August 17, Barber's and over 20 other local farms are participating in Schoharie County Family Farm... Read more
Aug. 12, 2013
A gunman who was involved in a hostage situation and a long standoff with law enforcement in a Bovina house on Sunday is dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, Delaware County sheriff's deputies said in a statement released at 11am Monday.... Read more
Aug. 12, 2013
A standoff between police and an armed gunman that had the town of Bovina on lockdown Sunday has come to an end, police say. But officials are not yet releasing details about the situation, or why it is no longer active.
Delaware County Undersheriff... Read more
Aug. 12, 2013
Bovina is one of those little rural towns that deserves to be called "sleepy." By 11pm on Sunday night, it's usually lights-out for the Delaware County town's 600-odd residents. But on Sunday, August 11, lights were blazing in house after house in Bovina... Read more
Aug. 9, 2013
A flash flood watch is in effect today for eastern New York and western New England, including Greene, Schoharie and Ulster counties. The flash flood watch, issued around 3am by the National Weather Service in Albany, is in effect until 6pm.
Local flood... Read more