Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
Articles
Jun. 28, 2013
The future is here, cat sold separately. About 8,000 people were chosen by Google in a social media competition to get the chance to test-drive Glass, the company's much-hyped, face-mounted, picture-taking web gadget. One of them was the Daily Freeman's... Read more
Jun. 27, 2013
Two years after the Irene and Lee floods ravaged the Schoharie Valley, there's still a lot of work to be done to make the valley whole.
But there's also a lot to celebrate: Across the region, farmers' fields that were torn up by floodwaters are now green... Read more
Jun. 27, 2013
North-South Lake Campground in Haines Falls, a state-run campground that's about to get a $400,000 upgrade. Photo by Flickr user Iain Hinchcliffe; published under Creative Commons license.
This week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced $17 million in new... Read more
Jun. 27, 2013
Andes's newest business is looking pretty green. Photo by "Story Laurie" McIntosh, who writes: "Morena of Grayson's Organics, selling fresh garlic scapes, salad greens and baby garlic to Annette, a happy customer. The farm store is at 27 Delaware Ave.,... Read more
Jun. 26, 2013
The Andes Central School Class of 2013. Photo from the district's Facebook page.
Last weekend, the hills echoed to the strains of "Pomp and Circumstance," as graduation ceremonies were held in schools large and small around the Catskills region.
The... Read more
Jun. 24, 2013
Some homegrown Catskills trail rocks. We've got a bunch more where they came from. Photo taken on the Escarpment Trail by Flickr user Kevin Kenny; published under Creative Commons license.
Summertime in the mountains got off to a promising start last... Read more
Jun. 24, 2013
Kayakers on the Pepacton Reservoir. Photo by Dennis Schvejda; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
For decades, New York City's enormous reservoirs have been off-limits to all but a few dedicated anglers in rowboats. But when cautious city... Read more
Jun. 21, 2013
Just in time for the weekend: A Middleburgh road that was closed for nearly a week after it was damaged by a mudslide has reopened, according to the Schoharie County Department of Public Works.
A DPW employee told the Watershed Post that Huntersland... Read more
Jun. 21, 2013
State Route 375 in Woodstock, now known as the Levon Helm Memorial Boulevard. Photo by Flickr user Doug Kerr; published under Creative Commons license.
With a stroke of the gubernatorial pen, Route 375 between West Hurley and Woodstock has been... Read more
Jun. 20, 2013
It took months of police work, and an investigation that involved a slew of law enforcement agencies, from the Walton village police to the FBI, but it finally happened: An arrest has been made in connection with a series of sadistic Facebook threats... Read more
Jun. 19, 2013
A satisfied customer at Bohringer's Fruit Farm in Middleburgh. Photo by James McCracken; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
June brings many things: Weddings. Graduations. A riot of greenery. And of course, strawberries. The brief,... Read more
Jun. 19, 2013
It's been a perilous week on Greene County roads and trails.
On Wednesday morning, state police say, two Athens women walking along the shoulder of Cauterskill Road in Catskill were struck by a car that drifted off-course. One died; the other was injured... Read more
Jun. 19, 2013
Jack o' diamonds is a hard card to find. Photo by Flickr user Scott Namelrod; published under Creative Commons license.
The latest out of Albany: With just days left in the legislative session, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and key state legislators struck a late-... Read more
Jun. 19, 2013
After a defeat at the polls in May, the Cairo-Durham Central School District passed a revised budget by 472-360 on Tuesday, the Daily Mail reports:
After the $27.7 million budget was voted down in May, the revised budget dropped the tax levy from $12,550... Read more
Jun. 18, 2013
After the Middleburgh school district's first budget was defeated at the polls by a slender margin, voters in the district passed a revised budget Tuesday. The district announced the results on Facebook:
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Jun. 18, 2013
A 21-year-old Delhi man drowned on the West Branch of the Delaware River on Tuesday after he fell from his kayak.
Around noon on Tuesday, according to a news release from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office, local first responders and police responded... Read more
Jun. 18, 2013
Above: The old Ulster & Delaware rail tracks near Cathedral Glen on Highmount. Photo by Julia Reischel.
A controversial plan to convert Ulster County's old rail corridor into a walking trail from Kingston to Highmount got a boost on Monday, with the... Read more