Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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Sep. 2, 2011
This release from the Small Business Administration was dated August 31. Also attached: An embedded PDF fact sheet from the SBA on how to apply for disaster loans. --Ed.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Small Business Administration Administrator Karen G. Mills issued... Read more
Sep. 2, 2011
I was live on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now this morning, via the magic of Skype. It's a program with a huge national audience, and we're delighted they're helping us get the word out about what's happening here in the Catskills, even if they can't... Read more
Sep. 2, 2011
Incredible video from Accord of local residents building a temporary bridge to help neighbors escape from behind a washed-out road. (Hat tip to Kitty Sheehan, who posted this on Twitter. Not sure who the videographer is.)
Sep. 2, 2011
FEMA begins to set up shop at Belleayre. Photo by Fred Margulies.
9/2/11: Delaware County announced yesterday that the FEMA Delaware County Flood Recovery Center is open for business at Belleayre Ski Center today. Buses are running to take flood-affected... Read more
Sep. 1, 2011
Our correspondent Marty Rosen took these photos yesterday in flood-ravaged Schoharie.
SCHOHARIE, NY - Shaun Bevins shows the water level from Sunday's flood. The top of the hydrant marked the flood level from the previous flood in 1996.
Residents here... Read more
Sep. 1, 2011
This just in from the New York City Department of Environmental Protection:
DEP will activate the Ashokan Reservoir Release Channel tomorrow, following a request from Ulster County, and with the agreement of the State Department of Environmental... Read more
Sep. 1, 2011
CORRECTION, 9/3: It seems the CCCC's press release (posted below) was premature. Diane Galusha of CWC, now serving as public information officer for the town of Middletown, informs us that CWC offices sustained damage in the flood, and will not be... Read more
Sep. 1, 2011
Sari Botton captured this video of the Rondout Creek roaring through Rosendale on Sunday, August 28. Taken at the Keator Avenue bridge, looking east, around 5pm.
Sep. 1, 2011
Correspondent Marty Rosen was on the ground in Schoharie County yesterday morning and early afternoon, and sent us these photos of Middleburgh, where -- to add insult to Irene's already devastating injury -- a barn fire broke out around 11am yesterday.... Read more
Aug. 31, 2011
This afternoon, WIOX ran a segment with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, FEMA officials, and various other state and county officials and first responders. Listen to it here.
Call for volunteers! If anyone can transcribe this, please email us at editor@watershedpost.... Read more
Aug. 31, 2011
We did a special hour-long news segment today on WIOX in Roxbury, which has been broadcasting via livestream while their transmitter has been down. The segment has also been picked up by several other local radio stations, including WGXC in Catskill and... Read more
Aug. 29, 2011
Town-by-town information, sorted by county:
Ulster CountyShandaken:Mount TremperPhoeniciaBig IndianOlivereaOlive- Boiceville
Delaware County
Middletown:- Arkville - Margaretville- FleischmannsRoxburyWaltonDelhiColchester (Downsville)Delancey/Hamden... Read more
Aug. 28, 2011
8:45pm: Clarification from Terry Doyle: WIOX didn't go off the air because of floodwaters in its studio, but because of the power outage in Roxbury. In an email, Doyle writes:
WIOX stopped broadcasting when the hamlet of Roxbury lost power. Though the... Read more
Aug. 26, 2011
Sullivan County will officially be under a state of emergency starting at 12:01am on Sunday, county manager David Fanslau announced this afternoon:
(Monticello, NY 5:18 PM) – Sullivan County Manager David P. Fanslau declared a state of emergency in... Read more
Aug. 26, 2011
Don't let the currently-blue skies fool you: We may be in for it. This just in from Art Snyder at the Ulster County Department of Emergency Services:
At 8 AM this morning, County Executive Michael Hein declared a state of emergency for Ulster County.... Read more
Aug. 25, 2011
Abraham Lincoln (aka John Exter), Gerald Balcar, Ursula Burroughs (aka Patricia Brannen), and New York State Assemblyman Clifford Crouch. Photo by Lissa Harris.
Assemblyman Clifford Crouch (R-107) was the guest of honor Tuesday, at a dinner-theater... Read more
Aug. 25, 2011
20-year-old Ahman Alrefai of Jackson Heights was killed yesterday afternoon, near Tar Hollow Road in the town of Hancock, when the ATV he was riding went off the road and overturned.
From the Delaware County Sheriff's Office:
On Wednesday afternoon... Read more
Aug. 25, 2011
The Associated Press reports (via North Country TV station WPTZ) that a 3.4 magnitude earthquake shook Franklin County, New York yesterday afternoon at 1:14pm. The quake was centered on the town of Brandon:
The Franklin County Sheriff's Department says... Read more
Aug. 24, 2011
Image: Potential 5-day path of Hurricane Irene and associated storms. From NOAA.
It will most likely be a few days til the worst of the storms associated with Hurricane Irene hit upstate New York, but emergency responders are already... Read more
Aug. 24, 2011
This Saturday, August 27, Phoenicia's Parish Field will host Shandaken Day, featuring vendors, watermelon-eating contests, music, games, and the annual tug-o-war among the town's emergency first responders. (Our money's on Watershed Post safety... Read more