Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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Mar. 5, 2014
The village of Fleischmanns is currently under a boil water advisory due to a break in the water main.
Village officials think there may be more than one leak in the system, deputy mayor Ben Fenton told the Watershed Post.
"Because of the severity of... Read more
Mar. 4, 2014
Grumpy buffalo: As advertised. Photo of Uncle Danny, one of the residents of Grumpy Buffalo Farm in Richmondville, from the farm's Facebook page.
A local farm worker was gored by a buffalo at the Grumpy Buffalo Farm in Richmondville on Saturday, several... Read more
Mar. 3, 2014
Above: Snow drifts pile up around Parksville's abandoned drug store, once a jewel of Main Street and still clinging to derelict grandeur. Photo taken last week by John of Catskills Photography, and shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool. ... Read more
Feb. 27, 2014
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Above: "Colbert's Very Wanted: Who Took Gumby?" From the Colbert Report, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014.
An unsolved local mystery made national television on Wednesday, when the... Read more
Feb. 27, 2014
A Mt. Tremper man was arrested for Wednesday's robbery of the Community Bank branch on Route 28 in Boiceville, Ulster County police announced today.
In a news release, Ulster County sheriff's deputies said that 54-year-old Nicholas Liakis Jr. was... Read more
Feb. 26, 2014
The Boiceville branch of Community Bank, at 4141 Route 28, was robbed on Wednesday morning, according to a report from the Daily Freeman.
The bank -- formerly a branch of the Wilber National Bank, a company that was acquired by Community Bank in 2010... Read more
Feb. 25, 2014
An elderly man in the Schoharie County town of Summit was rescued from his unheated home on Mud Lake Road on Tuesday afternoon, according to several news reports.
The man was suffering from frostbite, hypothermia and dehydration when rescuers found him,... Read more
Feb. 25, 2014
Above: Storm-felled trees on New York City-owned land on Houck Mountain, northeast of the Cannonsville Reservoir in Beerston, NY, in May of 2013. Photos courtesy of NYC DEP.
Blame it on the rain -- and the wind, and the torrential flooding. In the past... Read more
Feb. 25, 2014
You can't make this stuff up: Police say two men, one wearing a devil mask, robbed a Mormon church in the Schoharie County town of Esperance last month, damaging the church to the tune of $18,000 in the process.
On Monday, state police announced the... Read more
Feb. 24, 2014
A highway runs through it: Route 30, Roxbury's Main Street, on a chilly January afternoon. Photo by Greg Henderson.
In the rural Catskills, "economic development" often doesn't mean big-ticket projects. For the MARK Project, a nonprofit based in the... Read more
Feb. 24, 2014
Above: A chickadee touches down at a backyard feeder, while an American goldfinch looks on.
Local photographer James McCracken took this shot in a neighbor's yard in South Kortright last week, with the aid of a GoPro Hero 3 camera and a color-enhancing... Read more
Feb. 24, 2014
Complaints of constant drug sales from a Marbletown home sparked an investigation that led to the arrest of five people on Friday, the Ulster County Sheriff's Office reports.
On Friday, Feb. 21, members of the Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics... Read more
Feb. 21, 2014
Above: WJFF's Adam Weinreich, recently promoted to station manager. Photo courtesy of WJFF.
Public radio may sound genteel, but it can generate some fierce drama. Last year, WJFF, Jeffersonville's independent community FM radio station, was the... Read more
Feb. 21, 2014
A Hobart man who allegedly robbed the Express Mart convenience store in Delhi in the wee hours of Friday morning didn't get too far from the scene of the crime before his arrest.
At 4:12 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 21, a man stole cash from the register at the... Read more
Feb. 21, 2014
Above: A Google StreetView image of the Sauer Bridge in Saugerties.
The Sauer Bridge on the Glasco Turnpike, built on 1962 over the Esopus Creek in Saugerties, has been due for an upgrade for some time. But last Saturday, the Sauer situation got a lot... Read more
Feb. 21, 2014
Above: Photo by Bob Roney, courtesy of Willderhook Maple, Middleburgh.
Move over, Vermont: New York State produces almost a fifth of the nation’s maple syrup, and much of that comes from the Catskills, where dairy farmers looking to make a little extra... Read more
Feb. 20, 2014
A 13-year-old girl from the Wawarsing hamlet of Greenfield Park is missing and may be in Kingston, Kingston police announced Thursday.
Shamara Shante Sterling was reported missing by her family on Monday, Feb. 17. She was last seen at a friend's home on... Read more
Feb. 19, 2014
Above: The scene of a propane explosion in the village of Stamford, taken around 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Damage can be seen on the side wall of the house on the right, 59 Main Street, where the explosion occurred. Photo by Michael Martin.
A propane... Read more
Feb. 19, 2014
In the last few weeks, the owners and staff of the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz have weathered the outbreak of a nasty gastrointestinal virus, a week-long closure, the stem-to-stern disinfection of the entire resort by a 200-person cleaning crew,... Read more
Feb. 19, 2014
Above: New DEP commissioner Emily Lloyd and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday in the Blue Room at City Hall, where de Blasio announced the appointment of Lloyd and two other city administrators. Photo courtesy of Mayor de Blasio's office. ... Read more