Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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Jan. 9, 2013
The Schoharie County Board of Supervisors has elected Fulton supervisor Phil Skowfoe as county chairman, in a close vote taken Monday evening. Skowfoe is the first Democrat to lead the county board in 20 years, the Schoharie Times Journal reports:
Mr.... Read more
Jan. 8, 2013
Look closely: The strangely beautiful "icicles" in this photo are actually nail gun coils. Photographer Elizabeth Herman writes us from Pine Hill:
I found ten pounds of nail gun nail coils buried in the detritus under a tree next to our trash bin. They... Read more
Jan. 7, 2013
An Ulster man, 21-year-old Nick Ogden, was struck by a CSX train this weekend, and lost his right arm and leg. Ogden was found severely injured but conscious near the CSX railroad tracks around 7am on Saturday morning.
By Sunday, the Daily Freeman... Read more
Jan. 7, 2013
A family of four in Pindars Corners, a neighborhood in the Delaware County town of Davenport, lost their home and most of their possessions in a Friday morning fire. Homeowners Jason and Lacey Layton and their two children were unhurt by the blaze, but... Read more
Jan. 4, 2013
Upstate Films in Woodstock. Photo from Upstate Films' Facebook wall.
Upstate Films, a nonprofit that runs two small arthouse movie theaters in Rhinebeck and Woodstock, is racing the clock to raise $180,000 for two digital projectors.
It's an upgrade the... Read more
Jan. 3, 2013
The Catskills gets its fair share of random celebrities, but we're not much of a hotspot for Beltway insiders. Maybe that's changing, though: U.S. Senator Christopher Coons, Democrat of Delaware, was recently spotted at the Roxbury, where the Senator and... Read more
Jan. 2, 2013
The governors of New York and New Jersey are publicly venting outrage over a decision by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to adjourn on Tuesday night without voting on a critical Hurricane Sandy relief bill.
This afternoon, New York... Read more
Jan. 2, 2013
Roger F. Coleman, publisher of Hudson-Catskill Newspapers, died suddenly of an apparent heart attack on Monday, New Year's Eve in Kentucky. He was 61.
The Hudson-Catskill Newspapers company publishes the Daily Mail in Catskill and the Register-Star in... Read more
Jan. 2, 2013
Sidney radio station WCDO, which broadcasts on 101 FM and 1490 AM, rang in the New Year with a new online live audio stream. As of January 1, the station -- one of the few that broadcasts original local news and sports in the region -- can be heard live... Read more
Jan. 2, 2013
View New York 143 & New York 144 in a larger map
As of 8:05am Wednesday morning, Route 144 in New Baltimore is closed from Route 143 to 9W. According to a New York State Department of Transportation notice on NY-Alert, an 8am incident on the Greene/... Read more
Dec. 28, 2012
Photo of armed officer by Flickr user grendelkhan. Published under Creative Commons license.
Security will soon be beefed up at a Department of Motor Vehicles office in Schoharie County. Prompted by fears of mass shootings like the recent school killings... Read more
Dec. 27, 2012
Route 213 in the town of Ulster is currently closed due to flooding from heavy precipitation and a rising tide from the Rondout Creek, the New York State Department of Transportation announced around 1:20pm. The road is expected to be closed until... Read more
Dec. 27, 2012
In the country, a little snow often reveals that you have more neighbors than you think you do. John of Catskills Photography captured this shot yesterday in Monticello, before last night's snow obliterated the evidence.
Readers: Any thoughts on what... Read more
Dec. 27, 2012
A skier in fresh powder on the slopes of Windham this morning. Last night's snowstorm added 14 to 18 inches on the mountain, and has added 10 trails to Windham's open territory.
The other Catskills ski mountains are rejoicing in fresh powder, too.... Read more
Dec. 26, 2012
Above: A map showing snow forecasts for Central New York, the Southern Tier and northeast Pennsylvania from the National Weather Service in Binghamton.
Snow is already falling across much of New York State, and is expected to keep falling throughout the... Read more
Dec. 24, 2012
Local photographer Mark Zilberman's house all decked out for Christmas, Catskills style. Photo taken in Andes on Christmas Day, December 25, 2011, and shared in the Watershed Post Flickr group pool.
Whatever holidays you celebrate, we hope you have a... Read more
Dec. 20, 2012
Above: Video of the Gilboa Dam's newly installed siphon in operation. Video by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection announced on Wednesday that they had just finished... Read more
Dec. 19, 2012
New York State is currently accepting public comments on its latest draft of gas drilling regulations. Helen Slottje, a lawyer who has been prominent in the movement to pass town bans on gas drilling, is hosting a series of public forums this week on the... Read more
Dec. 18, 2012
In the Catskills, we do have partridges -- not to mention pear trees.
But here at the WP, we thought we'd put a more local spin on a favorite carol. While we're at it, we'd like to wish a very Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas to our readers across... Read more
Dec. 12, 2012
The Daily Freeman has dug up a shocking new piece of information about the Sunday arrest of 42-year-old Matthew DiDonna, a social studies teacher at Kingston High School and Hurley resident, on felony drug charges: DiDonna was arrested after a neighbor's... Read more