Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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Sep. 13, 2012
The Daily Freeman reports today that the Rural Ulster Preservation Company -- an affordable-housing agency known to most locals as RUPCO -- has been expanding its territory recently, and thus needs a new name:
O’Connor said the agency may wind up... Read more
Sep. 13, 2012
Above: Photo by Flickr user Ann Douglas. Published under Creative Commons license.
If you're registered to a political party in New York State, you may be eligible to vote in a primary election on Thursday, September 13. Most towns in the Catskills... Read more
Sep. 12, 2012
Above: Shaolin kung fu practitioners at the opening ceremony for the new USA Shaolin Temple in Fleischmanns, held in May on the grounds of the temple. Photo courtesy of USA Shaolin Temple.
If you're curious about the ways of Buddhist warrior monks, you... Read more
Sep. 12, 2012
Above: Before (well, during) and after photos of Jeanne Sager's cancer-fighting 'do. Photos courtesy of Jeanne Sager; reproduced with permission.
How far would you go to fight cancer?
Jeanne Sager, the Sullivan County writer and mom behind the blog... Read more
Sep. 11, 2012
Photo by First Sergeant Perry Soule of the Ulster County Sheriff's Office.
As if anyone in America could forget: Today is the eleventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
In Ulster County, police and first responders held... Read more
Sep. 11, 2012
The state Department of Transportation shut down the bridge over the Schoharie Creek on Route 23 in Prattsville on Monday evening, and it is unclear when it will be open again. An alert from the DOT states only that the bridge is closed "until further... Read more
Sep. 10, 2012
Above: Detail from a map showing over a dozen alternate routes proposed by the Constitution Pipeline Company. Full map embedded below. Source: Constitution Pipeline website.
The company behind the Constitution Pipeline, which has held several public... Read more
Sep. 10, 2012
Watershed Post reader David snapped this shot of a fawn trying to blend in with his lawn ornaments from his front door in Delhi. Thanks David! (Send us two more, and you're on your way to earning our "Where The Wild Things Are" badge.)
Photo taken on... Read more
Sep. 7, 2012
There's only two things money can't buy: True love and home-grown tomatoes. Above, photographer Mark Zilberman proves that you can grow gorgeous tomatoes in the high-altitude Catskills town of Andes. Shared in the Watershed Post Flickr group.
It's... Read more
Sep. 6, 2012
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Above: Itty-bitty Trout Creek. Source: Google Maps.
The tiny Delaware County hamlet of Trout Creek, in the town of Tompkins, will soon begin work on a community sewer system funded by the New York City Department of Environmental... Read more
Sep. 4, 2012
Friday, August 31 was a blue moon -- the second full moon in a single calendar month, a phenomenon that only rolls around every couple of years. The next blue moon won't be seen in the night sky until July 31, 2015.
John of Catskills Photography took... Read more
Sep. 1, 2012
On Thursday, August 30, the village of Margaretville came together to reflect on the Irene floods. Local videographer Jess Vecchione produced the video above, using footage taken at the ceremony. In it, she juxtaposes shots of the incredible devastation... Read more
Aug. 30, 2012
It may have been a few years since you were a Scout. Or maybe while the rest of the kids were out learning to use compasses and doing good deeds, you were home playing XBox. Or maybe you're thinking, "What's XBox?"
Fret not: You, too, can get out, do... Read more
Aug. 30, 2012
Matthew Avitabile, the mayor of the tiny Schoharie County village of Middleburgh, wants answers about last year's flood response from the powerful city and state agencies that operate two vast dams above the village.
Today, the village sent out a press... Read more
Aug. 29, 2012
Above: A Times Herald-Record newscast about an accident this morning, in which a pedestrian was struck and killed by a train in Kingston.
A Kingston man was struck by a train this morning around 8:30am, while walking on the CSX tracks near the... Read more
Aug. 29, 2012
Above: A sign posted in the window of a Margaretville business in 2011 (before the Irene floods), protesting the long absence of water in the Binnekill Creek. Photo by Lissa Harris.
For the better part of a decade, the Binnekill Creek that runs through... Read more
Aug. 28, 2012
It's a year to the day since flooding from Tropical Storm Irene pummelled upstate New York. While a lot of commemorative events have already happened over the past week, the next few weeks will see more (including a picnic in Maplecrest that is underway... Read more
Aug. 27, 2012
Above: A YouTube video from Prattsville's MudFest, held Saturday and Sunday, August 25 and 26. Video by Lance Wheeler.
Over the weekend, several Catskills towns that got whomped by the Irene and Lee floods held events timed to commemorate the one-year... Read more
Aug. 27, 2012
"The Catskills: Always In Season."
Get ready to see it on bumper stickers, billboards, ad campaigns, and anything else a bunch of marketers can think of. That's the slogan that got Arkville's Jenn Nolan $1,500 from the Catskill Park Resource Foundation... Read more