Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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Mar. 22, 2013
Above: Hobart Fire Department pipers and drummers at the first annual Delhi St. Patrick's Day Parade, in 2011. Photo from the event's Facebook page.
In Ireland, they celebrate St. Patrick's Day on March 17. In the Catskills, the party goes on for weeks... Read more
Mar. 21, 2013
A bomb threat targeting the Marbletown Elementary School was discovered in the Rondout Valley High School today, forcing an evacuation of students in the elementary school to the Stone Ridge Community Center.
From a post on the Facebook page of the... Read more
Mar. 20, 2013
Above: We're not sure who Gagnacon is, but we know he wants Gov. Andrew Cuomo to restore $547,818 in state aid to the Onteora Central School District. Photo courtesy of Valerie Havas, a PR specialist for Onteora.
Among the attendees at a Boiceville rally... Read more
Mar. 20, 2013
Most village-level politicians up for re-election in the Catskills on Tuesday went unchallenged. But some local villages had contests -- and with big issues like tax caps and flood recovery on the table even at the smallest level of government, the few... Read more
Mar. 19, 2013
Photo by Flickr user Keith Ivey. Published under Creative Commons license.
Upstate New Yorkers living under the sway of the state's littlest governments go to the polls today, to elect new mayors and village boards or give the incumbents another two... Read more
Mar. 19, 2013
Nope, it's not a yellowing photograph exhumed from a family attic: This shot was taken on March 7 by photographer James McCracken, who climbed Slide Mountain with his friend Marshall Rudd.
A late-winter hike along the 6.8 mile loop to the summit of the... Read more
Mar. 18, 2013
Scenic route is scenic. Photo of New York State Route 28 by Flickr user Doug Kerr; published under Creative Commons license.
On Tuesday, March 12, the town board of Olive voted 3-2 to approve a resolution in support of a plan to get a 50-mile stretch of... Read more
Mar. 18, 2013
Hiding in the bucolic Delaware County landscape: A burgeoning problem of drug dealing and addiction-fueled crime. Photo of tractor-crossing sign sporting a few bullet holes taken in Bloomville by photographer Mark Zilberman; shared in the Watershed Post'... Read more
Mar. 18, 2013
The Times Herald-Record reports that a Saturday evening car crash on Route 42 in Fallsburg claimed the life of an 18-year-old Woodbourne resident, after the car she was riding in struck a tree:
Police say Franseca Torres, 18, was killed and a second... Read more
Mar. 18, 2013
Reader Lillian Browne ran across this wayward baked good on East Brook Road in Walton on Sunday morning. (Almost literally.)
Bread puns and yeasty punchlines welcome, folks; leave yours in the comments below.
Mar. 18, 2013
Spring may be due to kick off officially in just a couple of days, but winter isn't done with the Catskills yet. Starting tonight, the National Weather Service warns, we're in for a round of snow and sleet, with accumulations of up to eight inches in... Read more
Mar. 14, 2013
Above: Homemade pie with apples from Wrights Farm, destined to meet a sticky end in Lazy Crazy Acres's small-batch Apple Cobbler gelato. Photo from Pure Catskills's Facebook wall.
It's 3.14 today, which means math nerds and pie-lovers around the world... Read more
Mar. 14, 2013
Above: Gerald Babcock. Photo from New York State Police. Below: Jamielynn Bleakley. Photo from Keyser Funeral Service website.
A Denning man has been arrested and charged with manslaughter, after allegedly beating his girlfriend to death in the couple's... Read more
Mar. 9, 2013
Above: Video from the Shandaken town board meeting on Monday, March 4. A brief discussion of the scenic byway project and a vote on the resolution begins around 21:00. For more video of this and other town meetings, see the Town of Shandaken's YouTube... Read more
Mar. 6, 2013
Above: Screenshot of a video from a Wednesday morning press conference by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and fellow Assembly Democrats on a bill that, if passed into law, will place a two-year moratorium on fracking in New York State. Source: The... Read more
Mar. 5, 2013
Utility poles near Binghamton. Photo by Flickr user Enoch Ross; photo published under Creative Commons license.
Rural utility companies call it the "last mile problem": Even in places where there is a network nearby that carries data, the final... Read more
Mar. 5, 2013
The latest local casualty of the crisis in the newspaper industry: Jobs and wages at the Kingston-based Daily Freeman, whose corporate parent, the Journal Register Company (JRC), is emerging from bankruptcy for the second time in four years.
In February... Read more
Mar. 5, 2013
While driving near the Pepacton Reservoir last weekend, reader Lillian Browne snapped the photo above. She writes:
"I was traveling along 206 around the Pepacton Reservoir...and this majestic beauty swooped down in front of me -- two of these beautiful... Read more
Mar. 4, 2013
On Saturday evening, March 2, a truck towing an empty snowmobile trailer on State Route 8 in Deposit struck and killed a woman. The truck's driver is charged with vehicular manslaughter, according to a news release from the New York State Police.
The... Read more
Mar. 4, 2013
In a near-unanimous vote, the Delaware County Board of Supervisors voted on Wednesday, February 27 to pass a resolution opposing the SAFE Act, New York State's new gun control law.
The resolution that was passed (embedded below) is a slightly different... Read more