Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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May. 2, 2012
Colchester supervisor Ted Fonda, who was elected to the post just six months ago, has resigned.
An employee at the Colchester town clerk's office told the Watershed Post that Fonda turned in a letter of resignation yesterday. The town board will be... Read more
May. 1, 2012
The great nature writer John Burroughs once wrote with curmudgeonly spleen that the automobile was a "demon," able to "seek out even the most secluded nook or corner of the forest and befoul it with noise and smoke."
That was before Henry Ford gave him... Read more
May. 1, 2012
...one giant leap for newtkind.
Photographer Christopher Mooney took this shot of a red-spotted newt, called an "eft" while it is in the bright red, land-dwelling juvenile phase of its life, on a country road in Bovina Center on April 21.
Most amphibians... Read more
May. 1, 2012
At their regular meeting tonight, the Onteora Board of Education is scheduled to vote on a new contract for superintendent Phyllis McGill.
The new contract would cut her salary from $160,000 a year to $150,000 a year, and extend the end date on her... Read more
Apr. 30, 2012
A house party in Greenville ended in three stabbings and the arrest of five people in the early hours of Sunday, April 29, state police report.
18-year-old Catskill resident James Felter has been charged with the stabbings, and faces three counts of... Read more
Apr. 30, 2012
The rolling landscape of upstate New York is a little more lush than the dry West Asian desert Camelus dromedarius is native to, but these guys don't seem to mind. Catskills Photography took this shot of camels grazing on emerald-green new spring grass... Read more
Apr. 30, 2012
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office reports that a driver was injured on Friday afternoon in Accord, when a large tree branch broke and fell onto the windshield of her car.
According to a press release from the sheriff's office, Debra Fehring, a 50-year-... Read more
Apr. 30, 2012
Video by Jessica Vecchione.
This weekend, hundreds of people descended on the Delaware County town of Delhi for the annual Relay For Life, a fundraising event for the American Cancer Society.
During the two-day relay, teams camped out overnight at the... Read more
Apr. 28, 2012
Above: Department of Environmental Conservation officers provide an honor guard at the April 28 memorial service for Robert Van Benschoten, a longtime employee of the agency and its former director of law enforcement. The service was held at the New... Read more
Apr. 27, 2012
Several Watershed Post readers wrote today to tell us that they've been getting urgent emails from someone purporting to be Shandaken town supervisor Rob Stanley. We've gotten a few ourselves.
The good news: Stanley isn't stranded in the Philippines and... Read more
Apr. 27, 2012
Above: The Great Tortilla Conspiracy in action, screenprinting tortillas with edible chocolate ink. Video from the Taller Tupac Amaru Art Collective's biannual open studio event, INK & PAPER, July 2009.
"ART IS FOOD," Bread and Puppet Theater's... Read more
Apr. 27, 2012
Photo of blossoms on a Pennsylvania apple tree, taken April 22 by Steve Guttman. An early, warm spring followed by many unseasonally cold nights has made this a challenging season for apple and other fruit growers across the Northeast. Photo published... Read more
Apr. 27, 2012
A screenshot from a Gannett interactive map of New York State towns that have passed bans or moratoria on hydraulic fracturing. To use the map and see further detail, click this link.
On Thursday, April 27, Bethel's town board unanimously passed a law... Read more
Apr. 26, 2012
Catskills Cycling blogger Mike Wentland and daughter Isabelle pick up bicycles for this Saturday's giveaway from Overlook Mountain Bikes in Woodstock. Photo courtesy of Mike Wentland.
Local blogger and bike advocate Mike Wentland can't fix all the damage... Read more
Apr. 25, 2012
Winter finally arrived in April this year -- and even with May just around the corner, it's not letting go.
The National Weather Service has issued a freeze warning for tonight across south-central New York and northeastern Pennsylvania, including... Read more
Apr. 25, 2012
The AP reports today:
Mitt Romney did what was expected, easily winning New York's Republican presidential primary and padding his delegate lead in his all-but-inevitable march toward the party's nomination.
Romney easily outdistanced Ron Paul and Newt... Read more
Apr. 25, 2012
John, who goes by "Catskills Photography" on Flickr, came across a few geese napping on the bank of the Neversink River yesterday, and snapped this photo of one who snoozed on oblivious to the camera. (To see the image in full high-res glory, click the... Read more
Apr. 25, 2012
Newly appointed Fleischmanns mayor Todd Pascarella recently wrote an update on the progress of millions of dollars' worth of flood recovery projects in the village, and recent changes in village govenment.
Pascarella was appointed earlier this month to... Read more
Apr. 25, 2012
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office reports that 31-year-old Hurley resident Angelo Stephano has been charged with stealing a picnic table from the Spring Lake Fire Department. Sheriff's deputies say that the picnic table was found with its four corners... Read more
Apr. 24, 2012
The Windham-Ashland-Jewett Central School District reports today that they are investigating allegations that a voice teacher at the school had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student.
The teacher has resigned, and the district has reported the... Read more