Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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Feb. 13, 2013
Photo of New York City's Ashokan Reservoir. Photo by Flickr user dougtone; published under Creative Commons license.
Two towns in New York City's Catskills watershed passed bans on gas drilling on Tuesday: Andes, near the Pepacton Reservoir in Delaware... Read more
Feb. 13, 2013
New York State is slated to miss a key Wednesday deadline in the long march toward issuing regulations on hydrofracking.
State health commissioner Nirav Shah announced Tuesday, in a letter to Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) commissioner... Read more
Feb. 12, 2013
The Ulster County town of Olive is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a ban on gas drilling and petroleum extraction within town borders. A hearing on the proposed local law was held on Monday, February 11.
In May of 2012, the Olive town board passed a one-... Read more
Feb. 11, 2013
A 49-year-old Kingston man has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the death of Kingston resident Anita Jacobs-Royer, who was found strangled to death in her Third Avenue home on Sunday, February 3.
Audelis Cruz was arrested on Sunday... Read more
Feb. 11, 2013
Photo of New York Cardinal-Archbishop Timothy Dolan, circa 2009. Via Wikimedia Commons.
On Monday, Pope Benedict XVI shocked the world by announcing that he would resign on February 28. As the New York Times noted in a front-page story, he will be the... Read more
Feb. 11, 2013
Weather advisories are in effect across the Catskills this morning, as snow and freezing rain make for a slick commute on local roads. The slippery stuff is expected to shift over to rain by noon.
The National Weather Service in Binghamton has issued a... Read more
Feb. 9, 2013
Above: A Buddha looking serene this morning in Olivebridge under a new 6-inch cap of snow. Thanks to Dona Marie for the photo.
This morning, people around the Catskills were asking: Where's Nemo? The wrath of Friday's snowstorm spared us, for the most... Read more
Feb. 8, 2013
Above: A short video clip by Daily Freeman reporter Paul Kirby about the sentencing of Wayne Longmore, former proprietor of the Walk-In Doctor's Office on Mill Hill Road in Woodstock.
Wayne Longmore, a 63-year-old Woodstock doctor who pled guilty last... Read more
Feb. 8, 2013
Three people have been arrested on fraud-related charges after a probe of alleged misuse of food stamp cards at Star Grocery, a convenience store on Mettacahonts Road in Accord.
Star Grocery has been under ongoing investigation into the use of electronic... Read more
Feb. 7, 2013
Above: A snowstorm forecast from the Weather Channel broadcast on Thursday morning. From the Weather Channel's YouTube channel.
A nor'easter in the forecast for Friday and Saturday -- dubbed "Nemo" by the Weather Channel -- promises to bury upstate New... Read more
Feb. 6, 2013
Photo of Sean Eldridge taken December 14, 2012. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Sean Eldridge may be best known to the national press as "Chris Hughes's husband" -- the guy whose high-profile marriage to the wealthy Facebook co-founder and New Republic publisher... Read more
Feb. 6, 2013
Photo of NYC mail carrier by Flickr user Wayne Surber. Published under Creative Commons license.
By August, news outlets around the country are reporting, the U.S. Postal Service will put a halt to Saturday mail delivery in an effort to cut costs at the... Read more
Feb. 5, 2013
Above: The scene of a Tuesday morning head-on crash between two vehicles on Route 212 in Woodstock, near Easton Lane. Photo courtesy of the Woodstock Fire Department; reproduced by permission.
A head-on collision between two vehicles around 7:20am shut... Read more
Feb. 5, 2013
Above: Video (part 4 of 5) from a meeting of the Shandaken Town Board on Monday, February 4, showing public comments from several Shandaken residents who spoke out against a resolution opposing New York State's new gun control law. For more Shandaken... Read more
Feb. 5, 2013
An accident around 7:30am has closed Route 212 in both directions between Easton Lane and Baumgarden Road, according to an alert on NY-Alert.
The Woodstock Fire Department said in a Facebook post that the incident was a "serious motor vehicle accident,"... Read more
Feb. 4, 2013
A woman died in a one-car accident on County Route 2 in Andes on Saturday, February 2.
Warwick resident Karen Lane, 58, was traveling north on County Route 2 when her car left the roadway and overturned several times, said Delaware County sheriff's... Read more
Feb. 4, 2013
Tonight, at a regularly scheduled monthly town board meeting, the Shandaken Town Board will vote on a resolution opposing New York State's recently enacted gun control legislation.
If adopted, the resolution will have no legal force. Such resolutions --... Read more
Feb. 4, 2013
This morning, a joint legislative budget hearing was packed to the gills as Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner Joe Martens testified to legislators about hydraulic fracturing.
Martens began speaking at 9:30am. The Democrat and... Read more
Feb. 1, 2013
The Daily Mail reports today that Daniel Medici, a 52-year-old Catskill resident who was arrested last weekend and charged with sexually abusing a minor, hung himself in his jail cell on Tuesday while awaiting a preliminary hearing.
Greene County sheriff... Read more
Jan. 31, 2013
On Thursday at 6:30pm, Ulster County executive Mike Hein delivered his annual "State of the County" address at SUNY Ulster in Stone Ridge. The event was originally scheduled for Monday, January 28, but was rescheduled due to weather.
Below: The text of... Read more