Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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May. 6, 2011
As if you needed an excuse to stuff yourself with homemade pie. (And cake, and brownies, and lemon squares, and...)
The deadline for entering your prizewinning delicacies is noon, and the eating runs from 1pm til the goodies are gone. All proceeds... Read more
May. 6, 2011
Longtime Woodstock folksinger Tom Pacheco will be playing the Public on Saturday night. Once a regular on the Greenwich Village circuit, Pacheco has played with the likes of Pete Seeger and The Band, written chart-topping hits for Norway's number-one... Read more
May. 6, 2011
Since 2009, the aerator fountain at the Ashokan Reservoir -- a popular spot for picnicking, snapping photos or just getting a faceful of cool mist in the summertime -- has been out of operation. Today, the New York City Department of Environmental... Read more
May. 6, 2011
Tomorrow, the Hanford Mills Museum in East Meredith will ring with the sound of axes and saws, as the lumberjacks (and jills) of the SUNY Cobleskill Woodsmen's Team put on a display of their prowess at chopping and sawing. Also, there'll be... Read more
May. 5, 2011
Today, the New York Times's Diner's Journal blog has a glowing profile of Mark VanGlad, a young Stamford brewer who will be the first to sell beer at New York City's famous Union Square Greenmarket tomorrow. Even for a tiny microbrewer, VanGlad's Tundra... Read more
May. 5, 2011
The Woodstock Times reports today that the Onteora middle and high schools will soon be installing 50 video surveillance cameras around campus.
That in itself isn't too surprising -- more and more schools have begun using video cameras to beef up... Read more
May. 4, 2011
31-year-old Kingston resident Corey Kotsol was found dead this evening, after being reported missing by his girlfriend earlier in the day. Not many details are available yet, but the Daily Freeman has the story:
Detective Lt. Egidio Tinti, head of the... Read more
May. 4, 2011
The New York Times's Economix blog has a terrific interview today with Charles Fishman, investigative journalist and author of a sobering new book on water called "The Big Thirst."
Fishman's big claim is that what he calls the "golden age of water" is... Read more
May. 4, 2011
Earth to cheese-eaters: Cows have to have babies to make milk. (Shocking, right?)
NYC food videoblogger Liza de Guia shot this little educational video on a recent visit to Calkins Creamery, an artisanal cheese producer in the Upper Delaware River Valley... Read more
May. 4, 2011
New Paltz's famous mayor -- the first Green Party mayor in New York State, and the mayor who made national headlines in 2004 for marrying 25 gay couples in a public ceremony -- is back in office.
West served as mayor from 2003 to 2007, then lost a bid... Read more
May. 3, 2011
Brace yourself for more farmstand drama: The Shandaken Town Board has voted 3 to 2 to hold a special meeting, on May 24 at 6pm, to discuss re-zoning a stretch of Route 28 in Mt. Tremper to permit more commercial activity. [Update: The date of the meeting... Read more
May. 2, 2011
It's been a banner week for bear sightings in upstate New York -- and not just in the remote, forested areas where bears are a regular fact of life, but in some unexpectedly urban spots as well.
Last Wednesday, a 200-pound young male black bear was... Read more
Apr. 29, 2011
No, the sticker above -- which, according to the Wall Street Journal, has been spotted near public faucets around New York City lately -- isn't the work of the NYC Department of Environmental Protection. It's part of a pretty slick anti-fracking campaign... Read more
Apr. 28, 2011
Chalk it up to stubborn environmentalists, the rotten economy, or maybe both: A planned development project in New Paltz that just a couple of years ago was drawing hundreds of irate citizens to packed town meetings is apparently dead. An eagle-eyed... Read more
Apr. 28, 2011
This just in from Delaware County Emergency Services:
State Highway 206 in Trout Creek has been closed between Masonville and Walton due to water across the roadway. A detour has been established taking the traveling public from State Highway 206 to... Read more
Apr. 28, 2011
A stretch of Route 23B in Cairo, by Flickr user dougtone. Published under Creative Commons license.
Unlike most upstate New York towns, the Greene County town of Cairo has never had zoning laws to govern where and how development is carried out. But for... Read more
Apr. 27, 2011
Watershed Post reader Alexandra Marvar took this photo of a misty evening over the Sawkill Creek in Woodstock earlier this week. (The Sawkill looks so peaceful: hard to believe just over a month ago it looked like this.)
Apr. 27, 2011
The Daily Freeman has the story (and some heart-stopping photos):
ST. REMY — Three students and the driver escaped a school bus fire Tuesday afternoon on Union Center Road in this town of Esopus hamlet, according to the St. Remy fire chief.
Michael... Read more