Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
Articles
Jan. 26, 2011
The Daily Mail reports:
A 24-year-old West Coxsackie woman was injured Tuesday when she lost control of her sedan and slid into a school bus, state police said.
The woman, who had to be extricated from the vehicle, suffered head trauma, though state... Read more
Jan. 25, 2011
Above: A Sundance "Meet the Artist" feature with Vera Farmiga, who directed and starred in the Hudson Valley-filmed Higher Ground, and who's also a part-time Catskills resident.
Through the 30th, most of the indie-film world is in Utah for the annual... Read more
Jan. 24, 2011
We just received a press release from the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Catholic order that has run the St. Cabrini Home for troubled girls in Esopus since 1890:
The Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus have engaged in... Read more
Jan. 24, 2011
Frankly, we're a little jealous of the Walton Reporter's new sign, created for them by culinary students from SUNY Delhi. Pretty cool, huh? (Ba-dum bump!)
The second annual Winter Festival in Walton last Saturday was by all accounts a smashing success,... Read more
Jan. 24, 2011
In the Freeman today: An update on the case of Emilio and Analia Maya, the Argentinian brother-sister duo behind the Tango Cafe in Saugerties, who are currently facing deportation next month for having illegally overstayed their visas.
For now, the Mayas... Read more
Jan. 23, 2011
This week, the Woodstock Times profiles the little hamlet of Pine Hill, which is currently mustering its few hundred residents in a community-wide effort to get listed on the National and State Registers of Historic Places.
Attracting tourism to Pine... Read more
Jan. 21, 2011
In an increasingly digital age, when so many time-honored skills and crafts seem poised on the lip of the dustbin of history, it's refreshing to know that there are a few traditional craftspeople still keeping the faith.
Take, for instance, analog... Read more
Jan. 21, 2011
For the nine million people who drink New York City water, the city buying a few thousand acres of upstate land each year hardly registers as news. But in the towns whose fields and forests make up New York City's million-acre Catskill/Delaware watershed... Read more
Jan. 21, 2011
If you're one of those people who just can't get enough of cows, barns, fresh eggs and homegrown tomatoes -- and, let's face it, you probably wouldn't live here if you didn't have an endless capacity for these things -- you might want to tune into WJFF... Read more
Jan. 20, 2011
If you bought propane gas -- or got it delivered -- between February 25 and September 30 of last year, be warned: Distributor Aux Sable announced a massive recall today, after it was discovered that some of the gas they shipped (sold under a variety of... Read more
Jan. 19, 2011
The Times Herald-Record reports that St. Cabrini -- a home for troubled girls in Esopus, founded in 1890 by St. Frances Cabrini's Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart -- is looking to build something new on its 600-acre, $4.2 million Hudson waterfront... Read more
Jan. 19, 2011
Today's New York Post lambastes Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver -- one of the most powerful figures in New York State politics -- for his law firm's making money off lawsuits against gas-drilling companies in other states, while leading the charge... Read more
Jan. 18, 2011
Image: Solar panels at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Today on Economix, the New York Times's economics blog, Harvard professor Edward Glaeser stakes out a controversial proposition -- controversial, that is, among non-... Read more
Jan. 17, 2011
Above: A video montage of clips from the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement, set to Nina Simone's heartbreaking song, "Why (The King Of Love Is Dead).
Ulster County legislator Mike Madsen has a tribute to King on his blog... Read more
Jan. 17, 2011
A convicted sex offender is free in Franklin, in the wake of legal complications over his sentencing that have yet to be resolved.
In May of 2009, Robert Becker Jr. -- who was convicted earlier that year of the sexual abuse of five students at Franklin... Read more
Jan. 14, 2011
This just in from the Times Herald-Record: Facing threats of legal action from Ulster County over their releases of turbid water into the Esopus Creek, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection has promised to stop the releases in 30 days... Read more
Jan. 14, 2011
Quote of the day: Former GOP Assemblyman Thomas Kirwan, who may or may not be representing New York's 100th Assembly District for the next two years, depending on the outcome of a vote recount that is still (believe it or not) dragging on. From the Daily... Read more
Jan. 14, 2011
An incident on Wednesday which ended with three Lanes arrested on various snowplow- and baseball-bat-related charges has yielded a few more arrests. From the Ulster County Sheriff's Office:
Detectives from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office report the... Read more
Jan. 13, 2011
Arrested, of course.
This truly epic tale of familial feuding just came in over the transom, from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office. We're a little in awe of the huevos required to assault your opponent's vehicle in the parking lot of the police station... Read more
Jan. 13, 2011
In the Daily Star today: Reporter Patricia Breakey pounds the pavement for details on Mike Allen, the 31-year-old Walton man accused of burning down the First Baptist Church on Tuesday morning. Friends and neighbors paint a sad picture of mental illness... Read more