Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
Articles
Apr. 10, 2012
The owners of the Freshtown supermarket in Margaretville, which has been closed since the Irene flooding last summer, publicly announced today that the store would reopen before June 1. They also say that the CVS pharmacy at the site, which was... Read more
Apr. 10, 2012
Two programs that have been helping with the local effort to rebuild and restore the region after the Irene and Lee floods announced application deadlines this week.
A $2.5 million program for funding debris removal from streams in the New York City... Read more
Apr. 9, 2012
Above: Video of fire at the Tamarack Lodge from the Times Herald-Record.
Wildfire raged across the property of the former Tamarack Lodge on Route 52 in Greenfield Park over the weekend, destroying dozens of buildings and calling hundreds of firefighters... Read more
Apr. 9, 2012
A Westchester County man was arrested and jailed last week for allegedly pumping hundreds of gallons of raw sewage into Catskill Creek.
James Sheerin of Ardsley, NY was arrested last week after an investigation by the state Department of Environmental... Read more
Apr. 6, 2012
An experimental plane struck a tree and crashed in a Kerhonkson field late in the afternoon on Thursday. Its pilot and sole occupant, 50-year-old New Paltz resident Mark Thomas, was injured in the crash, but according to a New York State Police press... Read more
Apr. 5, 2012
In an abrupt about-face, the Fleischmanns village board has appointed trustee Todd Pascarella as mayor, to fill a vacancy left by former mayor Dave Morell's resignation.
In February, the Catskill Mountain News reported that a motion by trustee Ben Fenton... Read more
Apr. 5, 2012
Tom Wargo may not have been elected mayor of Middleburgh last month, but he's pretty sure he got more than two votes.
Wargo, who came in last by a long shot in a three-way race between incumbent Bill Ansel-McCabe and winning challenger Matthew Avitabile... Read more
Apr. 5, 2012
The Daily Freeman reports that Saugerties police are looking for 46-year-old Jessica I. Plotnick, last seen around 1pm on Monday afternoon:
[Deputy police chief Joseph] Sinagra said Plotnick left her home driving a dark red 2001 Subaru Legacy with New... Read more
Apr. 4, 2012
A Hurley man, 48-year-old John C. Benkert, has been arrested on charges of grand larceny and forgery after a five-month investigation into his business dealings.
State police say he stole over $360,000 from victims by convincing them to loan him money... Read more
Apr. 3, 2012
Walter Goodrich, a recently elected member of the Sidney town council and a 28-year veteran of the New York State Police, has died.
News of Goodrich's death was posted on Facebook today by a member of the Sidney Bi-Partisan Coalition, which campaigned on... Read more
Apr. 3, 2012
State officials have posted a Missing Child/College Student Alert for 20-year-old Ashley MacDonald, last seen in the Sullivan County town of Forestburgh around 11pm on April 2.
MacDonald is described as 5'1" and 105 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes... Read more
Apr. 2, 2012
Above: The Times Herald-Record films the first cast of Opening Day on the Willowemoc Creek, with Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther and actor Olek Krupa joining the crew of eager flyfishers.
April 1 was the first day of trout season in New York State -- and... Read more
Apr. 1, 2012
Lisa VanOrden, a 49-year-old Kerhonkson resident, died on Saturday, March 31 after a one-vehicle car crash on Samsonville Road in the town of Rochester.
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office reports that she was found unconscious in the car after her... Read more
Mar. 30, 2012
Freshtown, the Margaretville supermarket that is still closed seven months after it was heavily damaged in the Irene floods, announced to local officials this week that work is being done in the building, and they hope to be "fully operational" by June 1... Read more
Mar. 30, 2012
Above: Screenshot of a National Weather Service map showing the 24-hour snow accumulation forecast across the country, for March 31 through April 1. Note the red spot showing 80 percent probability of an inch or more, hovering right over the Catskills... Read more
Mar. 30, 2012
Above: Video taken by YouTube user mjanensch1 on Monday, August 29, 2011, showing heavy flood damage to Bridge Street and the Bridge Street Bridge in Phoenicia.
Phoenicia's Bridge Street Bridge over the Esopus Creek, knocked out of commission by the... Read more
Mar. 30, 2012
Photo courtesy of Phoenicia Festival of the Voice.
This summer, from August 2-5, will be the third annual Phoenicia Festival of the Voice. Last year's festival culminated in a thrilling performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni in Phoenicia's Parrish Field,... Read more
Mar. 30, 2012
Still waters run deep. Photo of New York City's Ashokan Reservoir by Flickr user Doug Kerr. Published under Creative Commons license.
Ulster County's battle with NYC over the muddy Esopus has made the pages of the New York Times at last. Reporter Mireya... Read more
Mar. 29, 2012
On Monday, April 2, the Olive town board will hold a special public meeting to discuss hydraulic fracturing and the prospect of passing local legislation to ban it in the town.
Supervisor Berndt Leifeld said that there is broad agreement on the town... Read more
Mar. 28, 2012
Earlier this week, we reported that the Delaware County Planning Board is seeking to prevent a proposed gas ban in the town of Sidney from being enacted.
The Daily Star reports that another local conflict between a town and a county planning department... Read more