Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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Feb. 20, 2013
Above: Wilfred settles into his new home at the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. Photo courtesy of WFAS.
News flash: Yet another kinda-famous Brooklynite makes an escape to the Catskills. (He's got the obligatory goatee and piercings, too.)
Meet the... Read more
Feb. 20, 2013
Willie Janeway, a Department of Environmental Conservation official who heads the agency's Region 3 in the Hudson Valley and lower Catskills, is leaving for a nonprofit job in the high peaks of the Adirondacks.
The Adirondack Council, a prominent... Read more
Feb. 20, 2013
Above: Middleburgh's Municipal Building. Photo by Carolyn Simmons; reproduced by permission.
In a public vote Tuesday on whether or not to dissolve the village of Middleburgh, residents voted by a decisive 344-71 to keep their village government, several... Read more
Feb. 19, 2013
Photo of L1A1 SLR semi-automatic rifle by Flickr user Keary O. Published under Creative Commons license.
County governments across upstate New York are weighing in against New York State's new gun control law, the SAFE Act. By the time the dust settles... Read more
Feb. 15, 2013
A fuel tanker crashed and overturned on Route 209 in Accord on Friday morning, closing the road in both directions during prime morning commuting hours.
The accident occurred at 8:08am, according to the New York State Police, who responded to the scene... Read more
Feb. 15, 2013
The Kingston City School District reports that six students at Zena Elementary School received minor injuries in a head-on school bus collision with a car on Sawkill Road in Kingston on Friday morning.
All students are safe, the district announced:... Read more
Feb. 15, 2013
Currently making the rounds of Change.org: A petition by pro-drilling Southern Tier residents to allow Broome, Chenango, Chemung, Delaware, Steuben and Tioga Counties to secede from New York State and join Pennsylvania.
The signers, frustrated by New... Read more
Feb. 15, 2013
Above: Aerial imagery of a private property in Lexington that stands between the Greene County legislature and a project to stabilize a landslide that threatens Spruceton Road. Source: Greene County GIS web map.
Seeing no other way to carry out a project... Read more
Feb. 14, 2013
In the backpacks of Phoenicia Elementary School students today, along with the annual haul of Valentine's Day cards, was a somber letter from the Onteora School District: Principal Linda Sella was placed on administrative leave this week.
In a phone... Read more
Feb. 13, 2013
Bruce Loertscher, supervisor of the Ulster County town of Plattekill, died on Tuesday after a long battle with cancer, several local news outlets are reporting. He was 56.
Ulster County legislator Kevin Roberts, a longtime friend of Loertscher's, told... Read more
Feb. 13, 2013
Photo of New York City's Ashokan Reservoir. Photo by Flickr user dougtone; published under Creative Commons license.
Two towns in New York City's Catskills watershed passed bans on gas drilling on Tuesday: Andes, near the Pepacton Reservoir in Delaware... Read more
Feb. 13, 2013
New York State is slated to miss a key Wednesday deadline in the long march toward issuing regulations on hydrofracking.
State health commissioner Nirav Shah announced Tuesday, in a letter to Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) commissioner... Read more
Feb. 12, 2013
The Ulster County town of Olive is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a ban on gas drilling and petroleum extraction within town borders. A hearing on the proposed local law was held on Monday, February 11.
In May of 2012, the Olive town board passed a one-... Read more
Feb. 11, 2013
Photo of New York Cardinal-Archbishop Timothy Dolan, circa 2009. Via Wikimedia Commons.
On Monday, Pope Benedict XVI shocked the world by announcing that he would resign on February 28. As the New York Times noted in a front-page story, he will be the... Read more
Feb. 11, 2013
Weather advisories are in effect across the Catskills this morning, as snow and freezing rain make for a slick commute on local roads. The slippery stuff is expected to shift over to rain by noon.
The National Weather Service in Binghamton has issued a... Read more
Feb. 9, 2013
Above: A Buddha looking serene this morning in Olivebridge under a new 6-inch cap of snow. Thanks to Dona Marie for the photo.
This morning, people around the Catskills were asking: Where's Nemo? The wrath of Friday's snowstorm spared us, for the most... Read more
Feb. 8, 2013
Above: A short video clip by Daily Freeman reporter Paul Kirby about the sentencing of Wayne Longmore, former proprietor of the Walk-In Doctor's Office on Mill Hill Road in Woodstock.
Wayne Longmore, a 63-year-old Woodstock doctor who pled guilty last... Read more
Feb. 8, 2013
Three people have been arrested on fraud-related charges after a probe of alleged misuse of food stamp cards at Star Grocery, a convenience store on Mettacahonts Road in Accord.
Star Grocery has been under ongoing investigation into the use of electronic... Read more
Feb. 7, 2013
Above: A snowstorm forecast from the Weather Channel broadcast on Thursday morning. From the Weather Channel's YouTube channel.
A nor'easter in the forecast for Friday and Saturday -- dubbed "Nemo" by the Weather Channel -- promises to bury upstate New... Read more
Feb. 6, 2013
Photo of Sean Eldridge taken December 14, 2012. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Sean Eldridge may be best known to the national press as "Chris Hughes's husband" -- the guy whose high-profile marriage to the wealthy Facebook co-founder and New Republic publisher... Read more