Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
Articles
Oct. 3, 2011
A fire that broke out at the Brooklyn Bottling Co. in Milton in the early evening on Sunday, October 2 has damaged the building and temporarily shut down the factory, the Times Herald-Record reports.
[Milton fire chief Stephen] Kneeter said 15 fire... Read more
Oct. 3, 2011
Photo by Flickr user D. Sharon Pruitt. Published under Creative Commons license.
The Associated Press reports that although the recent flooding has stirred up New York City's water system considerably, and required the city to do some extra chlorination... Read more
Sep. 29, 2011
Have you seen flooding in your area? Readers, you are our eyes and ears; we rely on you to help get the word out to your neighbors. Send eyewitness accounts, photos and video to editor@watershedpost.com, or post to our Facebook wall: facebook.com/... Read more
Sep. 29, 2011
Above: DEP employees cleaning up flood debris in downtown Margaretville on September 13, 2011. Photo by Lissa Harris.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection announced this morning that they will donate $1 million to a fund to help... Read more
Sep. 29, 2011
Posted on NY-Alert at 4:45am:
The National Weather Service In Albany Has Issued A * Flash Flood Warning For... Greene County In East Central New York... This Includes The City Of Hunter... Central Ulster County In East Central New York... This Includes... Read more
Sep. 28, 2011
The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for the Rondout Creek in Rosendale, effective through the evening of Thursday, September 29.
Posted on NY-Alert at 6:19pm:
At 5 PM Wednesday The Stage Was...17.5 Feet. * Flood Stage Is 18 Feet. *... Read more
Sep. 28, 2011
A stretch of Route 209 in the Ulster County town of Rochester is closed in both directions due to flooding.
Posted on NY-Alert at 2:43pm:
N/S US Hwy 209 between Main St & Whitfield Rd closed due to flooding until further notice - Rochester - Ulster... Read more
Sep. 28, 2011
Photo of evacuation on Watson Hollow Road, September 28, 2011, by Jeanette Giuliano Kahil. From Facebook album.
Earlier today, we reported that a man had fallen into the creek on Watson Hollow Road in West Shokan after trying to cross a temporary... Read more
Sep. 28, 2011
From NY-Alert:
The National Weather Service In Albany Has Issued A * Flood Warning For The Esopus Creek At Cold Brook. * From This Afternoon Until This Evening. * At 10 AM Wednesday The Stage Was...9.2 Feet. * Flood Stage Is 11 Feet. * Minor Flooding Is... Read more
Sep. 28, 2011
A man narrowly escaped drowning this morning, after being swept off a makeshift foot bridge and into a creek on Watson Hollow Road in West Shokan, near the intersection with Private Road 3.
Neighbor Martha Frankel, who made the call to 911, said that she... Read more
Sep. 28, 2011
Peter Wallace posts a message from a local eyewitness in Upstaters, a local Facebook group:
Travel Advisory (near Phoenicia, Wed. 9:30 am): Plank Rd. under a lot of water just north of the monastery. Rt. 212 between Woodstock and Phoenicia under a... Read more
Sep. 28, 2011
The National Weather Service at Binghamton has issued a flash flood watch, effective through Thursday morning, for south central New York and northern Pennsylvania, including Delaware and Sullivan counties.
Posted on NY-Alert at 2:43am:
An Upper Low... Read more
Sep. 27, 2011
After the flooding of Irene and Lee, NYC food blogger Liza de Guia, who makes short behind-the-scenes documentary films about food from field to fork, visited Maple Downs Farm in Middleburgh. What she found was a landscape that has become all too... Read more
Sep. 27, 2011
The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently announced that they will be opening a mobile disaster recovery center in Catskill, from Wednesday, September 28 through Friday, September 30.
The DRC will be located at the Catskill Community Life Church... Read more
Sep. 27, 2011
The monthly town meeting in Colchester took a turn for the dramatic on Wednesday, September 21, when local resident Terry Edwards showed up armed with a barrage of complaints about alleged shady dealings, and Colchester Town Planning Board member Louis... Read more
Sep. 22, 2011
Double rainbow all the way across Lucky Dog Farm, one of the spots mentioned in a recent New York Magazine article about Delaware County. Photo from Lucky Dog's Facebook page.
Online at nymag.com today: A travel story highlighting a dozen-plus western... Read more
Sep. 22, 2011
The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the New York Office of Emergency Management announced today that all Disaster Recovery Centers currently operating in New York State will now be open six days a week.
A joint press release from the agencies... Read more
Sep. 22, 2011
Above: The board of the Town of Dryden unanimously passes a ban on gas drilling on August 2, 2011. Video by ShaleShock, an anti-gas drilling media group.
The first shots in what is likely to become a statewide battle were fired recently, as two lawsuits... Read more
Sep. 21, 2011
Above: Flickr photos taken around the Catskills, in the days after Irene flooding hit the region, by contributors fixbuffalo, Jay Harsevoort, and CMMooney.
Most of the photos here are from Shandaken, Margaretville, Middleburgh and Schoharie, and were... Read more