Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
Articles
Apr. 1, 2012
Lisa VanOrden, a 49-year-old Kerhonkson resident, died on Saturday, March 31 after a one-vehicle car crash on Samsonville Road in the town of Rochester.
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office reports that she was found unconscious in the car after her... Read more
Mar. 30, 2012
Freshtown, the Margaretville supermarket that is still closed seven months after it was heavily damaged in the Irene floods, announced to local officials this week that work is being done in the building, and they hope to be "fully operational" by June 1... Read more
Mar. 30, 2012
Above: Screenshot of a National Weather Service map showing the 24-hour snow accumulation forecast across the country, for March 31 through April 1. Note the red spot showing 80 percent probability of an inch or more, hovering right over the Catskills... Read more
Mar. 30, 2012
Above: Video taken by YouTube user mjanensch1 on Monday, August 29, 2011, showing heavy flood damage to Bridge Street and the Bridge Street Bridge in Phoenicia.
Phoenicia's Bridge Street Bridge over the Esopus Creek, knocked out of commission by the... Read more
Mar. 30, 2012
Photo courtesy of Phoenicia Festival of the Voice.
This summer, from August 2-5, will be the third annual Phoenicia Festival of the Voice. Last year's festival culminated in a thrilling performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni in Phoenicia's Parrish Field,... Read more
Mar. 30, 2012
Still waters run deep. Photo of New York City's Ashokan Reservoir by Flickr user Doug Kerr. Published under Creative Commons license.
Ulster County's battle with NYC over the muddy Esopus has made the pages of the New York Times at last. Reporter Mireya... Read more
Mar. 29, 2012
On Monday, April 2, the Olive town board will hold a special public meeting to discuss hydraulic fracturing and the prospect of passing local legislation to ban it in the town.
Supervisor Berndt Leifeld said that there is broad agreement on the town... Read more
Mar. 28, 2012
Earlier this week, we reported that the Delaware County Planning Board is seeking to prevent a proposed gas ban in the town of Sidney from being enacted.
The Daily Star reports that another local conflict between a town and a county planning department... Read more
Mar. 28, 2012
Above: A video of Boom Boom the rhino getting some TLC from a keeper at the Out Of Africa Wildlife Park in Camp Verde, Arizona. Filmed in 2010.
One of the now-defunct Catskill Game Farm's most famous animals, Boom Boom the white rhino, died of cancer... Read more
Mar. 28, 2012
Above: WNYT's report on the fire at the Red Barn Restaurant in Summit on Monday.
Today's forecast for the Catskills region is looking pretty soggy -- but earlier this week, dry weather and high winds were a recipe for increased risk of fires.
Several... Read more
Mar. 27, 2012
Above: Photo of Treadwell Post Office sign taken in July 2011 by Flickr user Carolyn Simmons of West Laurens, NY. Reproduced by permission.
Treadwell resident Linda Norris got a nasty shock while picking up her mail this week: This Saturday, March 31,... Read more
Mar. 27, 2012
No, that's not the Shire -- it's the sun over Bovina Center this morning, illuminating farm fields that are already turning from gold to green in earnest. Photo by Christopher Mooney, shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
For a larger view,... Read more
Mar. 27, 2012
The wife of a man on trial for murder in Kalamazoo, Michigan has testified in court that her husband confessed to her that he committed the unsolved 1996 slaying of Demetrius Carter in a North Branch boarding house.
Besham Brian Sugrim, a former Sullivan... Read more
Mar. 27, 2012
So far, the "home rule" legal debate over whether towns have the authority to ban gas drilling has focused on two levels of government: The town and the state.
But county governments are increasingly concerned with the issue. A standoff between Delaware... Read more
Mar. 27, 2012
Photo from Belleayre's Facebook page.
With an April 1 budget deadline looming, the New York State legislature and governor's office are close to finalizing a $132.5 billion budget, the AP reports.
Part of that budget deal, state senator John Bonacic's... Read more
Mar. 26, 2012
Photo of Indian Point power plant in Buchanan, NY by Flickr user Tony Fischer. Published under Creative Commons license.
This just in from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation: Entergy, the company that owns the Indian Point... Read more
Mar. 26, 2012
Above: Pea seedlings at WP HQ under a blanket of straw. Temperatures in New Kingston, on the eastern edge of Delaware County, are predicted to drop into the teens tonight. Photo by Lissa Harris.
March came in like a lamb, and it's going out like a lion... Read more
Mar. 26, 2012
The Daily Star reports that 35-year-old Hobart resident Dante Darren Major has been arrested on felony drug trafficking charges, after a year-long investigation by Otsego County, state, and other local law enforcement dubbed "Operation Gold Rush."... Read more
Mar. 25, 2012
Photo by Lynda Shenkman Curtis for Oxygen House Photography. From Sloan Wainwright's website.
It must be spring: The Empire State Railway Museum in Phoenicia is alive with the sound of music once again. Flying Cat Music, a small independent music series... Read more
Mar. 23, 2012
Above: Filmmaker Jessica Vecchione's cat Greykitty must be free.
Over in Greene County, former Brooklynite Larissa Phillips and her kids slaughter three roosters under a locust tree, "with every bit of the squeamish, precious, halting nonsense you’d... Read more