Lissa Harris

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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.

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Apr. 12, 2011
Last week, we featured a video by New York City food blogger Liza de Guia, who recently visited the northern Catskills to make a two-part mini-documentary about slaughterhouses. This week, we return for a peek at Part II. For anyone who grew up on a farm... Read more
Apr. 12, 2011
According to an alert from Delaware County Emergency Management, State Highway 206 in Walton was shut down earlier today after a natural gas line break, and was re-opened around 12:45 pm. The Walton Reporter writes on their Facebook wall that they've... Read more
Apr. 9, 2011
The Daily Freeman has the story: LIVINGSTON – A Mount Tremper man has been arrested and charged with four counts of felony second-degree assault and one count of misdemeanor endangering the welfare of a child in connection with injuries to his... Read more
Apr. 8, 2011
The Ashokan Reservoir, looking towards West Hurley. Photo by Flickr user Nick Stenning. File under: Wishful Thinking. According to a couple of stories in the Daily Freeman – one this Wednesday, one a week ago – the town of Hurley is considering banning... Read more
Apr. 7, 2011
Liza de Guia, a New York City food blogger who shoots mini-documentaries on food from farm to table at Food Curated, traveled to the Catskills recently to make a film about small-scale slaughterhouses. Here, in Part 1, she interviews Chris Harmon, the... Read more
Apr. 6, 2011
Image: A graphic from the Open Space Institute's recent report on development in the Catskills, showing towns with the most privately-owned open space in darker brown. A new report from the Open Space Institute, a land acquisition and conservation group... Read more
Apr. 5, 2011
Since the March 19 fire that claimed every one of its thousands of books, the Phoenicia Library has staged a remarkable comeback. A week later, a temporary library was opened in the former Maverick Health Center, and offers of help and donations were... Read more
Apr. 4, 2011
Above: A memento left on the remains of a tree on Wall Street, cut down recently as part of Kingston's controversial "Pike Plan" to restore the 1970s-era wooden canopies over the sidewalks of the uptown Stockade district. Photo by local musician (and O+... Read more
Apr. 3, 2011
Detail of an interactive map from the New York Times, showing change of population between the 2000 and 2010 Census. According to the Census Bureau, a census tract including most of Saugerties (the darker brown area at center) lost 13.7 percent of its... Read more
Apr. 3, 2011
We just received this message from the Ulster County Sheriff's Department: Sheriff Paul J. Van Blarcum reports, with deep sadness and regret, the untimely passing of Ulster County Sheriff's Office member Detective Sergeant Drue Lynch, age 47 of... Read more
Apr. 2, 2011
A New Jersey man was killed yesterday when his car, which was stopped in the northbound passing lane on the New York State Thruway, was struck from behind. From the New York State Police: State Police responded to a two vehicle collision that occurred... Read more
Apr. 2, 2011
Tomorrow, Sarah Lee Guthrie (yes, of those Guthries) and her husband and musical partner Johnny Irion are performing at the Empire State Railway Museum in Phoenicia.  The little train station should be a nice intimate backdrop for their sound: a rich,... Read more
Apr. 1, 2011
Artist's rendering of a planned floating luxury casino to be located on the Ashokan Reservoir. Photo credit. OLIVE, NY – The Tuscarora tribe has entered into a secret deal with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to build a... Read more
Mar. 31, 2011
This just in from the New York City Department of Environmental Protection: The agency is planning to push water into the lower Esopus via the Ashokan waste channel starting tomorrow, in response to predicted snowstorms in the Catskills region. According... Read more
Mar. 31, 2011
Former Daily Star reporter Patricia Breakey, who was among several editorial staffers laid off last month by the newspaper. Photo courtesy of Breakey; used with permission. On February 11, the Oneonta Daily Star – the only daily print newspaper that... Read more
Mar. 31, 2011
For the first time in five years, Albany has gotten its act together and passed a budget on time -- indeed, a day early. That's the good news. The bad news? With all the cuts required to close a $10 billion budget gap, state-run services are being... Read more
Mar. 30, 2011
The Times-Union reports: Investigators are examining the death of a 20-year-old State University of New York at Cobleskill student found in an apartment on Tuesday, village police said. Police were called to the Hammerstone Village Apartments at 5:21 p.m... Read more
Mar. 30, 2011
This just in from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office: A Seaford man drove into a creek in Hamden and flipped his car, after failing to stop at an intersection. Here's the press release: On 3/19/2011 Delaware County Sheriff's Deputies investigated a one... Read more
Mar. 30, 2011
Kingston Citizens reports that Brooklyn-on-the-Hudson our fair city to the east is dipping a toe into the waters of social media, and has gotten a Twitter account. Good news! The city of Kingston is finally working to access social media outlets to... Read more
Mar. 30, 2011
We're debuting something new today: Facebook comments. Instead of our old system, which let people choose between anonymous commenting and registering for a username on our site, we're now asking commenters to use their Facebook identities to post... Read more

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