Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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Jan. 9, 2013
The Catskills hold special rewards for those who get up early. Here, the sun rises over a snowy field in Esperance, with the waning crescent moon still gleaming in the sky.
Photo taken early Tuesday morning by Flickr user A Man Called ACME, and shared in... Read more
Jan. 9, 2013
The Schoharie County Board of Supervisors has elected Fulton supervisor Phil Skowfoe as county chairman, in a close vote taken Monday evening. Skowfoe is the first Democrat to lead the county board in 20 years, the Schoharie Times Journal reports:
Mr.... Read more
Jan. 8, 2013
A registered nurse from New Paltz who works at the Shawangunk Correctional Facility is charged with promoting prison contraband and petit larceny, after police found her in possession of stolen prescription drugs while working at the prison.
The New York... Read more
Jan. 8, 2013
Look closely: The strangely beautiful "icicles" in this photo are actually nail gun coils. Photographer Elizabeth Herman writes us from Pine Hill:
I found ten pounds of nail gun nail coils buried in the detritus under a tree next to our trash bin. They... Read more
Jan. 8, 2013
Ulster County law enforcement officers are spearheading a county-wide effort to review local school safety policies, and are seeking input from the public about what can be done to make Ulster County schools safer.
In the wake of the Newtown shootings in... Read more
Jan. 7, 2013
On Monday, the Village of Walton Police Department arrested 27-year-old Walton resident Jennifer L. Morris, in connection with a series of graphic and disturbing death threats made on Facebook to Walton children last week.
Although police say more... Read more
Jan. 7, 2013
An Ulster man, 21-year-old Nick Ogden, was struck by a CSX train this weekend, and lost his right arm and leg. Ogden was found severely injured but conscious near the CSX railroad tracks around 7am on Saturday morning.
By Sunday, the Daily Freeman... Read more
Jan. 7, 2013
A family of four in Pindars Corners, a neighborhood in the Delaware County town of Davenport, lost their home and most of their possessions in a Friday morning fire. Homeowners Jason and Lacey Layton and their two children were unhurt by the blaze, but... Read more
Jan. 7, 2013
Several children in the Walton Central School District have been targeted by an unknown person who used Facebook to spread pornography, tag pictures of dead children with the names of local students, and threaten to reenact the Sandy Hook shootings in... Read more
Jan. 4, 2013
Upstate Films in Woodstock. Photo from Upstate Films' Facebook wall.
Upstate Films, a nonprofit that runs two small arthouse movie theaters in Rhinebeck and Woodstock, is racing the clock to raise $180,000 for two digital projectors.
It's an upgrade the... Read more
Jan. 3, 2013
The Catskills gets its fair share of random celebrities, but we're not much of a hotspot for Beltway insiders. Maybe that's changing, though: U.S. Senator Christopher Coons, Democrat of Delaware, was recently spotted at the Roxbury, where the Senator and... Read more
Jan. 2, 2013
New York State Police in Catskill announced today that they are investigating the death of a Greenville resident, 40-year-old Scott Myer, as a homicide.
On Tuesday, police were called to check on Myer's welfare at his home at 262 West Road. Responding... Read more
Jan. 2, 2013
The governors of New York and New Jersey are publicly venting outrage over a decision by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to adjourn on Tuesday night without voting on a critical Hurricane Sandy relief bill.
This afternoon, New York... Read more
Jan. 2, 2013
A truly tabloid-worthy story in today's Daily Freeman: Saugerties police have arrested a Phoenicia man who allegedly plotted to shoot his ex-girlfriend and then himself.
John R. Howland of Church Street in Phoenicia, 63, was arrested after a Saugerties... Read more
Jan. 2, 2013
Roger F. Coleman, publisher of Hudson-Catskill Newspapers, died suddenly of an apparent heart attack on Monday, New Year's Eve in Kentucky. He was 61.
The Hudson-Catskill Newspapers company publishes the Daily Mail in Catskill and the Register-Star in... Read more
Jan. 2, 2013
Sidney radio station WCDO, which broadcasts on 101 FM and 1490 AM, rang in the New Year with a new online live audio stream. As of January 1, the station -- one of the few that broadcasts original local news and sports in the region -- can be heard live... Read more
Jan. 2, 2013
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As of 8:05am Wednesday morning, Route 144 in New Baltimore is closed from Route 143 to 9W. According to a New York State Department of Transportation notice on NY-Alert, an 8am incident on the Greene/... Read more
Dec. 28, 2012
Photo of armed officer by Flickr user grendelkhan. Published under Creative Commons license.
Security will soon be beefed up at a Department of Motor Vehicles office in Schoharie County. Prompted by fears of mass shootings like the recent school killings... Read more
Dec. 27, 2012
Route 213 in the town of Ulster is currently closed due to flooding from heavy precipitation and a rising tide from the Rondout Creek, the New York State Department of Transportation announced around 1:20pm. The road is expected to be closed until... Read more
Dec. 27, 2012
In the country, a little snow often reveals that you have more neighbors than you think you do. John of Catskills Photography captured this shot yesterday in Monticello, before last night's snow obliterated the evidence.
Readers: Any thoughts on what... Read more