Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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Oct. 22, 2012
Traffic jam on New Kingston Mountain Road. Local crime writer and Blues Maneuver frontman David Krajicek got this shot of a few of the Manhattan Country School's year-round residents on New Kingston Mountain Road in Roxbury last week. Shared with... Read more
Oct. 19, 2012
Bertha Rogers, a well-known poet in the region and the founder of the Bright Hill Press and Literary Center in Franklin, was badly hurt in a car accident on Route 6 in the town of Woodbury on Tuesday.
According to an account of the accident from the Mid-... Read more
Oct. 19, 2012
The eastern Catskills and Hudson Valley are now under flood advisory, along with Delaware and Sullivan County. The National Weather Service at Binghamton warns:
The National Weather Service In Albany Has Issued An * Urban And Small Stream Flood Advisory... Read more
Oct. 19, 2012
The National Weather Service in Binghamton has declared a flood advisory through around 3:45pm today for Sullivan and Delaware Counties. From an alert posted on NY-Alert:
At 945 AM EDT...Doppler Radar Indicated Heavy Rain Was Falling... And Will Result... Read more
Oct. 18, 2012
Several local news outlets are reporting that a man and a woman were found dead in a room in the Starlight Motel in Athens on Wednesday night, in a case that police believe is the result of accidental overdose at a "pill party." The Kingston Daily... Read more
Oct. 18, 2012
Tonight, the candidates for New York's 19th Congressional District, Julian Schreibman (Democrat) and Chris Gibson (Republican incumbent), will hold their second debate at 8pm at WMHT-TV in Troy. The station will be broadcasting the debate live on... Read more
Oct. 18, 2012
Above: Tuthilltown's microdistilled gin and vodka made with New York State apples, on display at a recent cider tasting for the media at the Stockade Tavern in Kingston. Photo by Lissa Harris.
The spirit of Johnny Appleseed is alive and well in New York'... Read more
Oct. 17, 2012
Add this to the growing pile of evidence that, in fact, we live in the Shire. A Watershed Post reader known only to Flickr as dyerry1 captured this ephemeral moment on Slide Mountain on Friday, October 12, when the high peaks of the Catskills got the... Read more
Oct. 17, 2012
New York and Pennsylvania state environmental agencies are imposing emergency rules on hunters, after a captive deer in New Oxford, Pennsylvania was found to be infected with chronic wasting disease.
Today, the New York State Department of Environmental... Read more
Oct. 16, 2012
Above: Noel van Swol, in a screenshot from a 2011 YouTube video from Energy In Depth's Northeast Marcellus Initiative. In the video, van Swol cites the Anti-Rent Wars as a precedent for the pro-gas-drilling movement in upstate New York, and tells an... Read more
Oct. 16, 2012
Photo courtesy of Focus Media.
Coming soon to 2121 Ulster Avenue in Lake Katrine: The heady smell of fresh-baked bread. A lot of it.
State and local officials gathered Monday to cut the ribbon on a Lake Katrine building that will be the site of Bread... Read more
Oct. 15, 2012
On Thursday evening, a collision between a car and a tractor-trailer on Route 17 in Deposit left 43-year-old Robert Stanton dead, the Daily Star reports.
The Star describes the collision:
Stanton, of Evans Road, who was driving a Chevrolet Monte Carlo,... Read more
Oct. 15, 2012
The Freeman is reporting that a 25-year-old Highland resident is at Westchester Medical Center after being shot in the head in Poughkeepsie late Sunday night.
The woman, whose name has not been released, was taken to the hospital by her boyfriend, also... Read more
Oct. 15, 2012
The autumn leaves may be past their prime, but there's plenty of color in the Catskills landscape if you keep an eye out for it. Watershed Post reader Timothy Cox took this early-morning shot from the road over the Ashokan Reservoir dividing weir on... Read more
Oct. 12, 2012
It's just a few flakes, but after last year's dismally snow-free winter, forgive us for being excited about it.
The photo above was taken high up on Plattekill Mountain in Roxbury this morning. Plattekill posts on Facebook:
FIRST FLAKES of the season are... Read more
Oct. 12, 2012
This weekend, the Frost Valley YMCA bids farewell to a longtime champion. D. Halbe Brown, who was camp director at Frost Valley from 1966 to 2001 and raised his five children at the Claryville camp, died on September 13. On Sunday, the camp will hold a... Read more
Oct. 11, 2012
Rumors are flying in the Delaware County town of Stamford, which was the scene of heavy law enforcement activity last night. So far, little information has been released about the nature of the incident, but state troopers told the Watershed Post that an... Read more
Oct. 10, 2012
Above: Detail of photo by Flickr user Kevin Dooley. Published under Creative Commons license.
Are you registered to vote in New York State? If not, you have until Friday, October 12 to make sure you're registered to vote in the general election on... Read more
Oct. 10, 2012
DNA evidence has led to the arrest of a man from the Rosendale hamlet of Tillson, 52-year-old William F. Ryan, on multiple burglary charges, according to the Ulster County Sheriff's Office.
Ryan faces charges of third-degree burglary, third-degree... Read more
Oct. 9, 2012
For the third time this year, the Daily Mail reports, a suspicious fire has destroyed a house in Prattsville. The house belonged to Jim Rion, and was in the process of being rebuilt after sustaining significant damage in the Irene floods.
Officials... Read more