Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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May. 16, 2013
Photo from the 2012 New Paltz Bike Swap, from the event's Facebook page.
Old bikes, new bikes, red bikes, blue bikes: On Saturday, May 18, the New Paltz Middle School will play host to a huge sale and swap meet for all manner of two-wheeled devices.... Read more
May. 16, 2013
State senator Cecilia Tkaczyk, an outspoken opponent of hydrofracking, is proposing new legislation that would prohibit out-of-state drillers from disposing of fracking waste in New York State.
On Wednesday, Tkaczyk held a press conference about the... Read more
May. 15, 2013
Longtime Prattsville resident Donald Olson -- a Prattsville town justice, former clerk of the Greene County Legislature, and deeply involved member of the close-knit Prattsville community -- was killed in a head-on collision on Route 23 in Windham on... Read more
May. 13, 2013
Proof that there really are only two seasons in the Catskills -- winter and the Fourth of July. Photo taken at 1:45pm on Monday, May 13 at the Watershed Post's headquarters in New Kingston.
As if the snow falling out of the sky wasn't warning enough:... Read more
May. 13, 2013
Above: The Jay Ungar and Molly Mason Family Band performs "Ashokan Farewell" at the Folk Alley studio in 2011.
You know the tune. The first two notes give it away. By the third note, it has you already transfixed in some haunting memory, whether you've... Read more
May. 8, 2013
In a five-way race for two open seats on the New Paltz Village Board on Tuesday, voters elected Tom Rocco and Rebecca Rotzler.
Rocco got 335 votes and Rotzler 252, giving them a comfortable margin over Don Kerr (180), Jonathan Cohen (124) and Radi Serdah... Read more
May. 7, 2013
Opening day at the New York Safety Track: A track day for the members of the Driving Force Club. Photo from NYST's Facebook page.
When is a racetrack not a racetrack? When it's a "motorcycle training facility" -- a phrase used to describe a new 2.1-mile... Read more
May. 6, 2013
David Krajicek holds up living proof of a fine day on the river. Photo by Dan Plummer; used with permission.
Looks like local crime-writing bluesman David Krajicek and river advocate Dan Plummer had a lucky day on the East Branch near Hancock over the... Read more
May. 6, 2013
A body was pulled from the Delaware River on Saturday afternoon, the Times Herald-Record reports.
Around 3pm, the paper reports, state police and local officials responded to a call of a body floating in the water, and recovered the body from the river... Read more
May. 5, 2013
A hiker was seriously injured in a fall on the Tanbark Trail in Phoenicia on Sunday afternoon.
Around 3pm Sunday, Shandaken police and first responders received a call that a hiker had fallen down a cliff roughly 40 feet high, according to Shandaken... Read more
May. 3, 2013
Photo by Julia Reischel.
The banner says it all: The CVS on Bridge Street in Margaretville is once again open for business. The pharmacy reopened on Friday, with a gloriously sunny May day to mark the occasion.
It's been almost two years after the Irene... Read more
May. 2, 2013
A spill that shut down a stretch of Route 28 and Ohayo Mountain Road for hours on Tuesday afternoon was messy, but not dangerous, officials say.
The spill occurred sometime before on Tuesday, when a tractor-trailer traveling in West Hurley began leaking... Read more
May. 2, 2013
Update, Friday, 5/3/2013: The body of the pilot, 72-year-old Copake resident Michael B. Braunstein, was recovered by divers on Friday, about 24 hours after the plane crashed.
A small plane crashed into the Hudson River between Greene and Columbia... Read more
May. 2, 2013
Two upstate New York towns that faced lawsuits over their gas drilling bans have won in appeals court, delivering a major victory to proponents of town "home rule."
The towns of Dryden and Middlefield faced separate lawsuits seeking to overturn their... Read more
May. 2, 2013
It's not exactly Watergate, but this hot scoop by the Daily Freeman is a must-read.
It seems Jeremy Blaber, former Kingston parking enforcement officer (and erstwhile Ulster County politics blogger) brought a tape recorder to a meeting with Kingston... Read more
Apr. 29, 2013
A City of Kingston dump truck blocks the Catskill Mountain Railroad tracks near the Washington Avenue intersection in Kingston. Photo taken Saturday, April 27; courtesy of the Catskill Mountain Railroad.
A City of Kingston dump truck recently appeared on... Read more
Apr. 29, 2013
Photo from Hudson Valley Foie Gras website.
The campaign against foie gras just got a lot more personal.
In the U.S., just two farms produce the fatty delicacy, both in Sullivan County. Last week, a group of anonymous animal-rights activists affiliated... Read more
Apr. 26, 2013
Update, 4/29/2013: Richard Calkin has been found unharmed in West Virginia, according to a report by News 12 Westchester.
The City of Middletown Police Department has issued an alert for a 20-year-old autistic man who is missing and believed to be... Read more
Apr. 26, 2013
Photo by Dan Century of cicadamania.com. Published under Creative Commons license.
Brood II: It sounds like a low-budget horror movie. But it's real, and it's poised to engulf the East Coast from Georgia to Connecticut, an onslaught of giant bugs that... Read more