Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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Jan. 17, 2012
The New York Power Authority, which owns and operates the dam at the Blenheim-GIlboa Hydroelectric Power Station just downstream from New York City's Gilboa Dam, will hold a public meeting on Thursday to discuss the power authority's actions during the... Read more
Jan. 17, 2012
UPDATE: The road has now been cleared.
Route 17 is currently closed in both directions near Exit 92 on Route 17, due to multiple road accidents.
From NY-Alert:
State Highway 17 is closed in both directions (East & West bound) in the area of the... Read more
Jan. 17, 2012
The Daily Mail reports that a man who jumped from the Rip Van Winkle Bridge last Wednesday, and whose body was recovered from the Hudson River the next day, has been identified as a Greene County resident.
State police said Aleksandr M. Tchernikov, 45,... Read more
Jan. 16, 2012
Above: A photo set posted recently on Flickr by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has sent a team to Prattsville to help prepare a site for temporary housing under the guidance of FEMA.
Photos taken on site in Prattsville on January 10, 2012. For... Read more
Jan. 16, 2012
Be careful on the roads tonight, Delaware and Sullivan County. The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for south-central New York and northern Pennsylvania through tomorrow morning.
From NY-Alert:
Light Wintry Mix With Ice... Read more
Jan. 15, 2012
The Daily Freeman reports that the PTA of Bennett Elementary School, one of three in the Onteora district, is circulating petitions calling on the school board to reject the only reconfiguration plan on the table that would allow Phoenicia Elementary to... Read more
Jan. 13, 2012
A dying deer found last month in Thurman, a town in Warren County, has biologists at the state Department of Environmental Conservation doing some detective work to see if the animal's infection is a symptom of a larger problem.
The agency is asking the... Read more
Jan. 9, 2012
80-year-old Verna Hess of Callicoon died Sunday morning when her car hit a utility pole on Route 52 in White Sulphur Springs, the Times Herald-Record reports.
[Sullivan County sheriff's] deputies found Verna Hess inside of a 1991 Buick Century. The White... Read more
Jan. 9, 2012
The Olive Town Board meets at 7:30pm on Tuesday, January 10 for its regular monthly meeting. Here's the agenda:
Olive Town Meeting Agenda: January 10th
Jan. 6, 2012
While Ulster County executive Mike Hein is busy pouring lighter fluid on long-smoldering conflicts between New York City and its upstate watershed, Delaware County politician Jim Eisel is quick to distance himself from the feud.
Yesterday, Eisel, who... Read more
Jan. 5, 2012
The Register-Star reports that Catskill High and Middle Schools were on lockdown this afternoon, after a bullet was found in a classroom.
The lockdown was initiated, and Catskill police responded to interview students and perform locker searches.
No... Read more
Jan. 5, 2012
Above: A satellite image of the turbid lower Esopus spilling into the Hudson River. From Google Maps.
The following letter, from New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) deputy commissioner Paul Rush, lays out the agency's reasoning... Read more
Jan. 4, 2012
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's State of the State address, delivered from Albany earlier this afternoon:
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A copy of the speech was passed out to attendees in advance. Cuomo went off-... Read more
Jan. 3, 2012
The leadership of the flood-ravaged Greene County town of Prattsville has been in limbo since November, when Republican Alan Huggins won the supervisor's race as a write-in candidate, then promptly resigned.
But last night, the Prattsville town board re-... Read more
Jan. 2, 2012
Ulster County sheriff's deputies report that a home on Old Unionville Road in Plattekill was robbed by armed invaders early this morning. Police say that around 4am, two men entered the house armed with handguns, took some property, and struck one... Read more
Jan. 2, 2012
Above: Video footage shot in 2009 by undercover PETA investigator at the Angel's Gate animal hospice in Delhi.
Susan Marino, a 60-year-old Delhi resident and the founder of the Angel's Gate animal hospice, has been arrested on five counts of cruelty to... Read more
Dec. 23, 2011
Above: Adie & the Twins, a local musical act from Sharon Springs, introduce a couple of holiday recipes from the Beekman Boys' 2011 holiday advent calendar.
This holiday season, local celebs Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge -- a.k.a., the... Read more
Dec. 22, 2011
The Onteora Central School District is currently contemplating a reconfiguration of its three elementary schools -- a process that could result in the closing of a school, or a new division of the grade levels.
The Onteora Board of Education recently... Read more
Dec. 20, 2011
Photo by Flickr user Sonja Alves. Published under Creative Commons license.
Everybody needs a holiday now and then, even new-media news junkies. We're going to be spending some time during these last two weeks of 2011 on things that can't be done while... Read more