Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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Jun. 7, 2013
Above: A screenshot from the NWS's river forecast page. Dots indicate USGS streamgauges; the color indicates whether flooding is forecast over the next 48 hours. All gauges in the Catskills region are either green (no flooding forecast) or yellow (near... Read more
Jun. 6, 2013
Above: A screenshot of a National Weather Service image showing the projected 5-day track of Tropical Storm Andrea as it moves up the East Coast, as of Thursday afternoon. For a current image, check the NWS's Tropical Storm Andrea page.
Heavy rains and... Read more
Jun. 6, 2013
A gas station just across the street from Hunter Mountain was on lockdown for several hours Wednesday night, after a bomb threat was called in to state police.
The Daily Mail reports that the Valero station was searched and declared safe:
New York State... Read more
Jun. 4, 2013
For the second time in a year, the Walton Central School District has been besieged with virulent Facebook threats made against children.
On Monday evening, a message was posted on a local Facebook group threatening to shoot elementary school children... Read more
Jun. 4, 2013
Above: Video of a harness racing accident on the Monticello Raceway on Monday, June 3. Around 0:34, trotter Getthemoney falls, and a half-dozen horses behind him collide with horse and sulky.
Several racetrack drivers were injured in a seven-horse pileup... Read more
Jun. 4, 2013
Voters in Schoharie County's Middleburgh Central School District voted down this year's proposed $20,277,789 budget on May 21 by just 25 votes: 374 for to 399 against.
Now, with a second budget vote looming on June 18, the district has proposed a new... Read more
Jun. 4, 2013
A dreamy June landscape: vivid green grass, ripe seed heads, and the inexorable march of tiny feet. Jen Williams Dragon took this shot of a few recently emerged Brood II 17-year cicadas in the Ulster County hamlet of Malden, near the Hudson River, on... Read more
Jun. 3, 2013
View from the top of Overlook Mountain. Photo by Greg Miller; courtesy of the Open Space Institute.
Over 250 acres near the summit of Overlook Mountain in Woodstock became part of the Catskill Forest Preserve recently, with the completion of a long-... Read more
Jun. 3, 2013
Dawn on the Ashokan Reservoir: A perfect time to be alone with just a rowboat, a fishing pole and the sound of the mountains waking up for company. Photographer Tim Cox snapped this photo on the morning of Saturday, June 1; shared in the Watershed Post's... Read more
Jun. 3, 2013
Above: A short video of the 18th annual Delhi Covered Bridge Run on June 1, 2013, shot by local filmmaker Jessica Vecchione.
Saturday's muggy weather was no match for the 469 runners, ages 6 to 78, who turned out for the Delhi Covered Bridge Run this... Read more
Jun. 3, 2013
A 55-year-old Port Ewen man who decided to take his Jeep off-roading in the town of Ulster on Sunday slid off the trail, and had to be rescued by state police and local fire companies.
According to a statement from state troopers, the man, who police... Read more
May. 31, 2013
Above: A trailer for Knuckle Jack, an independent film shot in and around Roscoe by local filmmakers Toby Poser and John Adams.
This weekend, film buffs will get a rare chance to see Roscoe on the big screen, as Knuckle Jack -- a film shot in and around... Read more
May. 31, 2013
Photo from the Friends of the Kaaterskill Rail Trail's Facebook page.
The Greene County mountaintop region will be celebrating National Trails Day in style this year: With the opening of a new rail trail through the heart of the Catskills' grand old... Read more
May. 31, 2013
Thanks to luck and training, a young Greenville pilot walked away from a plane crash in Wawarsing with only minor injuries on Thursday afternoon.
According to a New York State Police news release, 23-year-old Kimberly Striefler, the plane's sole occupant... Read more
May. 30, 2013
Lightning from a thunderstorm on Wednesday, May 29, taken between Grand Gorge and Stamford. Photo by Michelle Ogborn; shared on the Watershed Post's Facebook page.
A fierce rainstorm that swept through upstate New York on Wednesday night caused flash... Read more
May. 29, 2013
*Update, 8:45pm: The tornado warning has been cancelled:
BGM cancels Tornado Warning forDelaware [NY] till 9:15 PM EDT nwschat.weather.gov/vtec/#2013-O-C…
— NWSBinghamton (@NWSBinghamton) May 30, 2013
The National Weather Service has issued a tornado... Read more
May. 29, 2013
Ulster County sheriff Paul Van Blarcum is recovering in Kingston Hospital after a bizarre accident on Monday afternoon, in which a car veered off the road, crashed into Van Blarcum's parked truck, and shoved the truck onto the sheriff.
The accident... Read more
May. 28, 2013
It's been a rough year for the Marbletown Elementary School. The closing of the Rosendale school last June is still fresh for many former Rosendale students now attending Marbletown. Throughout the year, Marbletown Elementary has been plagued with a... Read more
May. 28, 2013
A few of Sullivan County's crowned princesses wave from a float at the Liberty Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 27, in this photo by John of Catskills Photography on Flickr. From left to right: Jennifer Nolan, Miss Sullivan County 2013; Tisha Curry, Ms... Read more
May. 25, 2013
Snow on Memorial Day Weekend? In the high peaks, anything's possible.
Watershed Post reader Jamie Sabuda took this shot at 8am on Hunter Mountain this morning, on Becker Hollow Trail at roughly 3800 feet in elevation. "Thought y'all might like to see,"... Read more