Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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Mar. 25, 2013
Photo: Langan Funeral Home website.
A Schoharie man studying at SUNY Oneonta was found dead in his off-campus apartment on Thursday evening, according to several local news accounts.
22-year-old Mark de Roziere was found around 9pm in his East Street... Read more
Mar. 25, 2013
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Two bridges carrying the exit and entrance ramps for westbound Route 17 in Liberty, at Exit 100, will be closed for an extensive $1 million construction project beginning Monday, March 25.
A press... Read more
Mar. 22, 2013
Above: Hobart Fire Department pipers and drummers at the first annual Delhi St. Patrick's Day Parade, in 2011. Photo from the event's Facebook page.
In Ireland, they celebrate St. Patrick's Day on March 17. In the Catskills, the party goes on for weeks... Read more
Mar. 22, 2013
A 14-year-old student at the Rondout Valley High School was arrested Thursday for allegedly making a threat to bomb the Marbletown Elementary School, in a case police say is unrelated to previous threats made to the school.
On Thursday, the Rondout... Read more
Mar. 22, 2013
The chief of police in the Greene County town of Cairo has been arrested on felony charges, in what state police say is a case of evidence tampering.
A New York State Police statement has little specific information about the case, but states that 48-... Read more
Mar. 21, 2013
A bomb threat targeting the Marbletown Elementary School was discovered in the Rondout Valley High School today, forcing an evacuation of students in the elementary school to the Stone Ridge Community Center.
From a post on the Facebook page of the... Read more
Mar. 20, 2013
Above: We're not sure who Gagnacon is, but we know he wants Gov. Andrew Cuomo to restore $547,818 in state aid to the Onteora Central School District. Photo courtesy of Valerie Havas, a PR specialist for Onteora.
Among the attendees at a Boiceville rally... Read more
Mar. 20, 2013
Most village-level politicians up for re-election in the Catskills on Tuesday went unchallenged. But some local villages had contests -- and with big issues like tax caps and flood recovery on the table even at the smallest level of government, the few... Read more
Mar. 19, 2013
Photo by Flickr user Keith Ivey. Published under Creative Commons license.
Upstate New Yorkers living under the sway of the state's littlest governments go to the polls today, to elect new mayors and village boards or give the incumbents another two... Read more
Mar. 19, 2013
Nope, it's not a yellowing photograph exhumed from a family attic: This shot was taken on March 7 by photographer James McCracken, who climbed Slide Mountain with his friend Marshall Rudd.
A late-winter hike along the 6.8 mile loop to the summit of the... Read more
Mar. 18, 2013
Scenic route is scenic. Photo of New York State Route 28 by Flickr user Doug Kerr; published under Creative Commons license.
On Tuesday, March 12, the town board of Olive voted 3-2 to approve a resolution in support of a plan to get a 50-mile stretch of... Read more
Mar. 18, 2013
Hiding in the bucolic Delaware County landscape: A burgeoning problem of drug dealing and addiction-fueled crime. Photo of tractor-crossing sign sporting a few bullet holes taken in Bloomville by photographer Mark Zilberman; shared in the Watershed Post'... Read more
Mar. 18, 2013
The Times Herald-Record reports that a Saturday evening car crash on Route 42 in Fallsburg claimed the life of an 18-year-old Woodbourne resident, after the car she was riding in struck a tree:
Police say Franseca Torres, 18, was killed and a second... Read more
Mar. 18, 2013
Reader Lillian Browne ran across this wayward baked good on East Brook Road in Walton on Sunday morning. (Almost literally.)
Bread puns and yeasty punchlines welcome, folks; leave yours in the comments below.
Mar. 18, 2013
Spring may be due to kick off officially in just a couple of days, but winter isn't done with the Catskills yet. Starting tonight, the National Weather Service warns, we're in for a round of snow and sleet, with accumulations of up to eight inches in... Read more
Mar. 14, 2013
A three-month investigation into cocaine sales in Delaware County netted three arrests in the Town of Middletown on Wednesday, state police say.
According to a statement from the New York State Police, three people were arrested at a home at 104 Frog... Read more
Mar. 14, 2013
Delhi village police arrested two suspects Thursday for allegedly making threats at the Delaware Academy Central School District in Delhi.
Parents of children at the school got two troubling voicemail messages from the school -- one Wednesday and one on... Read more
Mar. 14, 2013
Above: Homemade pie with apples from Wrights Farm, destined to meet a sticky end in Lazy Crazy Acres's small-batch Apple Cobbler gelato. Photo from Pure Catskills's Facebook wall.
It's 3.14 today, which means math nerds and pie-lovers around the world... Read more
Mar. 14, 2013
Above: Gerald Babcock. Photo from New York State Police. Below: Jamielynn Bleakley. Photo from Keyser Funeral Service website.
A Denning man has been arrested and charged with manslaughter, after allegedly beating his girlfriend to death in the couple's... Read more
Mar. 13, 2013
All press is good press, or so the saying goes -- but not so at SUNY Delhi this week, where news of several student drug arrests follows closely on the heels of a bomb hoax that evacuated the tallest building in Delaware County on Tuesday.
Delaware... Read more