Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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Apr. 22, 2013
Above: Video of Richie Havens performing "Freedom" at Woodstock in 1969.
Folk legend Richie Havens, who was the opening act at the 1969 Woodstock festival, died on Monday of a heart attack in his home in Jersey City. He was 72.
The Roots Agency, who... Read more
Apr. 22, 2013
Above: A slideshow of photos from the Lexington Bicentennial Parade on April 20, 2013. All photos by Donna Cavanaugh.
Happy birthday, Lexington: The Greene County town celebrated its 200th on Patriot's Day with a parade, a celebration of the town's... Read more
Apr. 22, 2013
Over the weekend, the Ulster County Sheriff's Office released an updated list of their top ten most wanted fugitives from justice.
The ten men on the list are wanted for a wide variety of alleged offenses: assault, larceny, welfare fraud, failing to... Read more
Apr. 22, 2013
A tip on a burglary investigation has led Sullivan County police to a "treasure trove" of stolen items from multiple burglaries, the Times Herald-Record reports.
On Thursday, sheriff's deputies arrested 59-year-old Abdool Persaud of Monticello, after a... Read more
Apr. 20, 2013
Above: Tree limbs driven into the ground by the force of the tornado. Photo from National Weather Service in Binghamton; for more photos of damage in the tornado's path, see their Facebook album.
A tornado touched down near Bainbridge on Friday evening... Read more
Apr. 19, 2013
The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for Sullivan County, along with much of Pennsylvania, for Friday afternoon and evening. (Update, 9:30pm: The area is no longer under tornado watch.)
Sullivan County, along with the rest of the Catskills... Read more
Apr. 19, 2013
Orville Slutzky, co-founder of the Hunter Mountain ski center, family patriarch, and a well-known community figure and philanthropist, died on Thursday, April 18 at the age of 96. Hunter Mountain will hold a memorial service this Sunday, April 21.
An... Read more
Apr. 19, 2013
Photo by Flickr user Chris Costes; published under Creative Commons license.
Sharpen your No. 2 pencils, kids. This week, public-school students in third through eighth grade across New York State buckled down at their desks for the first round of tough... Read more
Apr. 17, 2013
Above: Scale model of the planned hotel and lodge buildings at Highmount -- part of the proposed Belleayre Resort project -- from a supplemental draft environmental impact statement released Wednesday by the DEC.
The long-planned Belleayre Resort project... Read more
Apr. 16, 2013
Eighteen runners from the Catskills region -- Delaware, Greene, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster Counties -- were among those registered for the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15, where explosions killed at least three people and injured over 140.
The... Read more
Apr. 15, 2013
Catskill: Not a bunch of mountains in upstate New York. Photo by Flickr user Doug Kerr; published under Creative Commons license.
You've got to feel for the village of Catskill. It's forever getting confused with the Catskills -- a region that the little... Read more
Apr. 15, 2013
A water main break in the village of Coxsackie that occurred around 2am Monday has shut down Route 385, put the village under a boil-water alert, and delayed the opening of schools in the village.
A message posted on NY-Alert this morning states that... Read more
Apr. 12, 2013
Photo of Ashokan Reservoir Fountain by Flickr user ianbckwltr; published under Creative Commons license.
Part of the public area near the Ashokan Reservoir Fountain will be closed until April 25 while a contractor cleans up hundreds of trees damaged or... Read more
Apr. 11, 2013
Above: Part one of a video of a contentious WJFF board meeting held on March 20. You can see part two below.
A public spat over the management of WJFF, a community public radio station broadcasting at 90.5 FM from Jeffersonville, came to a head Wednesday... Read more
Apr. 10, 2013
An old rule of etiquette: Don't discuss religion or politics at the dinner table. In upstate New York, one might banish two more incendiary topics from polite dining conversation: Fracking and gun control.
Since the hasty and controversial passage of... Read more
Apr. 10, 2013
The Daily Freeman reports that Frederick Schussler Jr., life member and former assistant chief of the Lomontville Fire Department, was killed on Wednesday when a car he was working on fell on him:
The man — identified by his sister as Frederick Schussler... Read more
Apr. 9, 2013
Pro tip: Don't lose these. Photo of kayak paddle by Flickr user Jan Smith; published under Creative Commons license.
Two men from Pine Bush who hoped to kayak the Neversink River on Sunday, from Holiday Mountain to Cuddebackville, had to be rescued by... Read more
Apr. 9, 2013
Above: The Catskill mountains still waking up to spring, seen from a high perch atop Sam's Point in Ellenville. Photo taken April 7, 2013 by Ethan Myers; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr pool.
Blue sky, blue hills -- and a vivid green landscape that... Read more
Apr. 8, 2013
Above: The last FEMA trailer in the village of Schoharie being towed away from Mary and Jim Bryant's front yard on Thursday, April 4. Photo by Alison Bryant; used by permission of Schoharie Area Long Term Recovery.
The flood-ravaged village of Schoharie... Read more
Apr. 8, 2013
The Onteora Central School District will appoint an interim principal to serve out the rest of the school year at Phoenicia Elementary, whose principal Linda Sella was placed on administrative leave in February.
Since Sella was forced to step down from... Read more