Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
Articles
Aug. 1, 2011
41-year-old Adriano Pacheco of Portugal died Saturday while trying to swim across the Delaware River near Cochecton with a friend, who survived and was treated at a local hospital. The Times Herald-Record has the details.
Just last week, an eighteen-year... Read more
Aug. 1, 2011
27-year-old Alec Mangiaracina of Kingston died on Saturday while hiking a dangerous area of Platte Clove Gorge in the town of Hunter.
According to a report from state police, Mangiaracina was hiking with his fiancée near the top of a waterfall on the... Read more
Jul. 29, 2011
Photo of American feral pig by Flickr user Dave Govoni. Published under Creative Commons license.
Last year, we warned you: Feral pigs are coming to the Catskills, and it's not going to be pretty.
Today, a story by Reuters says that feral pigs are... Read more
Jul. 29, 2011
Photo courtesy of the Open Space Institute.
The Open Space Institute announced yesterday that the Smiley family, longtime owners of the famous Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, have agreed to sell 874 acres of farm, field and forestland in New Paltz... Read more
Jul. 29, 2011
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection announced yesterday that, starting today, the Lower Esopus will get 10 to 15 million gallons of clean water a day from the Ashokan Reservoir.
For creekside residents below the Ashokan, who have... Read more
Jul. 28, 2011
Photo of the Upper Delaware River. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
A Brooklyn teenager (whose name is still being withheld) is missing and presumed drowned after attempting to swim across the Delaware River near Narrowsburg yesterday evening.
The... Read more
Jul. 28, 2011
Three businessmen, including the owner of a local trucking business, were arrested recently on charges that they shipped ash timber out of Greene County, where the wood is under a quarantine because the highly destructive emerald ash borer has been found... Read more
Jul. 27, 2011
Bainbridge pilot Milton Petzold crashed his Piper Comanche airplane into the Susquehanna River in Sidney this afternoon, not long after taking off from the Sidney Airport. The plane had no other passengers, and Petzold walked away from the crash.... Read more
Jul. 27, 2011
Photo of graffiti on the new Kerhonkson bridge across the Rondout, from Terry Bernardo's Facebook page.
You can hardly blame Ulster County legislator Terry Bernardo for being mad about graffiti on the bridge across the Rondout Creek in Kerhonkson. After... Read more
Jul. 27, 2011
Unless the state Department of Environmental Conservation makes big changes to its latest draft of gas drilling regulations, New York State is on track to ban hydraulic fracturing in and around New York City's vast, unfiltered watershed. But many... Read more
Jul. 26, 2011
Photo of rusty mailbox by Flickr user Mandy Jansen. Published under Creative Commons license.
Today, the United States Postal Service released a list of almost 3,700 post offices across the country -- many of them in small, rural towns -- that the agency... Read more
Jul. 26, 2011
A severe thunderstorm watch is (once again) in effect for most of the state, including the Catskills region, until 7pm tonight.
From NY-Alert:
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 686 Is In Effect Until 700 PM EDT For The Following Locations Ny . New York... Read more
Jul. 26, 2011
On Sunday evening, a man was killed in the Sullivan County town of Forestburgh when the Fiat convertible he was driving struck a tree and burst into flames. Today, the Times Herald-Record reports, he's been identified as 60-year-old Forestburgh resident... Read more
Jul. 25, 2011
Photo by Flickr user Michele Borioli. Published under Creative Commons license.
Joe Sicinski, who runs the food bank at the Andes Presbyterian Church, has a problem on his hands. He's still got plenty of things like canned corn, cranberry sauce and green... Read more
Jul. 25, 2011
Radar image of southeastern New York State as of 11:45 am. From the National Weather Service.
A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect for much of New York State through 7pm tonight. From NY-Alert:
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 683 Is In Effect Until 700 PM... Read more
Jul. 25, 2011
Photo by Flickr user Marion Doss. Published under Creative Commons license.
With emerald ash borer and Asian longhorned beetle threatening to spread destruction across New York State's forests, the state Department of Environmental Conservation is... Read more
Jul. 25, 2011
28-year-old New Jersey resident Yamil Mendez was killed on the New York State Thruway in New Paltz yesterday, when a tire failure caused the SUV he was driving to flip over. Five passengers were also injured. From the New York State Police:
The New York... Read more
Jul. 22, 2011
Video: Billy Bob Liggan takes a video tour of the Rosendale Street Festival, 2008.
Party down, Rosendale: The annual Street Festival is in town once again. This Saturday and Sunday, the little town's Main Street will be transformed into an open-air... Read more
Jul. 22, 2011
Looks like AOL Weather is having some issues with their local forecast.* (It's hot in Arkville, but not THAT hot -- Weather Underground puts the current temperature around 81 degrees.)
The heat wave rolling across most of New York State isn't expected... Read more
Jul. 21, 2011
Looks like the Ulster Savings Bank has finally managed to unload the Friar Tuck Inn in Catskill for a modest $2.4 million. (That's $1.4 million less than what the bank was owed, when they foreclosed on the Route 32 property last April.)
But the... Read more