Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
Articles
Sep. 28, 2011
A man narrowly escaped drowning this morning, after being swept off a makeshift foot bridge and into a creek on Watson Hollow Road in West Shokan, near the intersection with Private Road 3.
Neighbor Martha Frankel, who made the call to 911, said that she... Read more
Sep. 28, 2011
Peter Wallace posts a message from a local eyewitness in Upstaters, a local Facebook group:
Travel Advisory (near Phoenicia, Wed. 9:30 am): Plank Rd. under a lot of water just north of the monastery. Rt. 212 between Woodstock and Phoenicia under a... Read more
Sep. 28, 2011
The National Weather Service at Binghamton has issued a flash flood watch, effective through Thursday morning, for south central New York and northern Pennsylvania, including Delaware and Sullivan counties.
Posted on NY-Alert at 2:43am:
An Upper Low... Read more
Sep. 27, 2011
After the flooding of Irene and Lee, NYC food blogger Liza de Guia, who makes short behind-the-scenes documentary films about food from field to fork, visited Maple Downs Farm in Middleburgh. What she found was a landscape that has become all too... Read more
Sep. 27, 2011
The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently announced that they will be opening a mobile disaster recovery center in Catskill, from Wednesday, September 28 through Friday, September 30.
The DRC will be located at the Catskill Community Life Church... Read more
Sep. 27, 2011
The monthly town meeting in Colchester took a turn for the dramatic on Wednesday, September 21, when local resident Terry Edwards showed up armed with a barrage of complaints about alleged shady dealings, and Colchester Town Planning Board member Louis... Read more
Sep. 26, 2011
In the early hours of Sunday, September 25, 27-year-old Broome resident Richard Welden was shot and killed by New York State Police troopers after a confrontation near his sister's house on Route 145.
Police say that troopers who responded to a domestic... Read more
Sep. 23, 2011
This just in from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office:
Deputies from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office report the arrest of Michael Planthaber age 26 of 482 Oliverea Road, Big Indian.
Michael Planthaber was charged with Strangulation in the 2nd degree (D... Read more
Sep. 22, 2011
Double rainbow all the way across Lucky Dog Farm, one of the spots mentioned in a recent New York Magazine article about Delaware County. Photo from Lucky Dog's Facebook page.
Online at nymag.com today: A travel story highlighting a dozen-plus western... Read more
Sep. 22, 2011
The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the New York Office of Emergency Management announced today that all Disaster Recovery Centers currently operating in New York State will now be open six days a week.
A joint press release from the agencies... Read more
Sep. 22, 2011
Above: The board of the Town of Dryden unanimously passes a ban on gas drilling on August 2, 2011. Video by ShaleShock, an anti-gas drilling media group.
The first shots in what is likely to become a statewide battle were fired recently, as two lawsuits... Read more
Sep. 21, 2011
Above: Flickr photos taken around the Catskills, in the days after Irene flooding hit the region, by contributors fixbuffalo, Jay Harsevoort, and CMMooney.
Most of the photos here are from Shandaken, Margaretville, Middleburgh and Schoharie, and were... Read more
Sep. 21, 2011
Photo of Catskills vista by Flickr user ohmann alianne. Published under Creative Commons license.
Last week, New York Post travel writer David Landsel took a spin up Route 28 to see what Irene hath wrought.
Landsel, a local boy whose grandmother had a... Read more
Sep. 20, 2011
Above: Video footage taken in Prattsville on August 29, the day after flooding from Tropical Storm Irene destroyed most of the town's Main Street.
In the New York Post on Sunday, September 18: A suspected scammer posing as a volunteer for Prattsville's... Read more
Sep. 19, 2011
Andrew Hafele. Photo by New York State Police.
New York State police report that on Saturday, September 17, 20-year-old Deposit resident Michael J. Mills, Jr. was killed in a fight in a shed near a home on Airport Road.
38-year-old Andrew L. Hafele, also... Read more
Sep. 19, 2011
FEMA recently announced the opening of a new Disaster Recovery Center in the region, and the moving of another.
Today at 12 noon, FEMA will be opening a new DRC for Delaware County at the Sidney Civic Center on 21 Liberty Street. Starting Tuesday,... Read more
Sep. 15, 2011
Aerial imaging of the village of Schoharie on Tuesday, August 30, courtesy of RIT researcher Jason Faulring. Cropped by the Watershed Post from the original, larger image.
Across the Catskills region (and beyond), Irene and Lee wreaked devastation on... Read more
Sep. 14, 2011
Via WCDO radio reporter Rob Ray on Facebook: The boil water alert for the village of Sidney has been lifted.
For more information on the Sidney flood recovery effort, check sidneyflood.org, a website set up recently to coordinate emergency and flood... Read more
Sep. 14, 2011
The unofficial results from yesterday's primary elections around the Catskills are in -- and you can find them here.
Schoharie County had no primary elections this year, which was a stroke of luck for them, as their own offices were hit hard by flooding... Read more
Sep. 14, 2011
Via Andes town councilman Shayne Moshier, on Facebook: The boil-water advisory in Andes has been lifted as of 11:00am today, September 14, 2011.