Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
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Jun. 13, 2011
This just in from the state political blogs: The New York state legislature is expected to vote on a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage sometime in the next few days.
From the New York Times:
On a day of fast moving developments, the Cuomo aide,... Read more
Jun. 13, 2011
It's a big news day for larcenous shenanigans in Kingston: Details have just emerged about a scheme to part developmentally disabled residents of a group home from their paychecks, and an Ulster County grand jury has just indicted a former Kingston cop... Read more
Jun. 12, 2011
Two men -- 46-year-old Clifford Banks of East Branch, and 19-year-old Dalton Hills of Fishs Eddy -- were killed on Friday evening on River Road in Colchester, when the pickup truck Banks was driving ran off the road and struck an earth embankment. A load... Read more
Jun. 10, 2011
Teeny-tiny Hardenburgh (population: 208) is used to being ignored. With less than three people per square mile, the smallest town in Ulster County is so remote and underpopulated, it doesn't even have its own ZIP code.
With less than a tenth of the... Read more
Jun. 9, 2011
Quinn Kelley, founder of Chicken Hill Farm Handmade Soaps, with Skye the Auracana. Photo by Joe Damone.
Summer in the Catskills means it's the height of craft fair season once again, and Quinn Kelley, the 15-year-old proprietor of Chicken Hill Farm... Read more
Jun. 8, 2011
The Oneonta Common Council voted yesterday to ban gas drilling within city limits, with little opposition. From today's Daily Star:
The vote was not unanimous. With Third Ward Alderman Erik Miller absent, Seventh Ward Alderman Liz Shannon abstained.... Read more
Jun. 8, 2011
They're here at last: sweet, tender sugar snap peas, the star of the early-summer vegetable garden. The owners of Catskill Native Nursery in Kerhonkson posted this photo of the first of their Sugar Anne peas on their Facebook wall today.
Pea season means... Read more
Jun. 7, 2011
Photo of Elton John at the 2011 premiere of The Union at the Tribeca Film Festival by David Shankbone. Published under Creative Commons license.
Seems you can't have a big act at Bethel Woods (Phish, anyone?) without some outsize drama to go along with... Read more
Jun. 7, 2011
Photo of crowd outside last week's DRBC hearing in Deposit by Lillian Browne.
On Wednesday, June 1, the Delaware River Basin Commission held a public hearing in Deposit to discuss whether or not the agency should grant XTO Energy a permit to withdraw... Read more
Jun. 6, 2011
Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record reports that the disintegrating Nevele Grande, once the pride and joy of the Borscht Belt, has just had its tax assessment cut by two-thirds:
The 433-room hotel had been valued at $15 million, but town assessor Mike... Read more
Jun. 6, 2011
Gov't Mule performing "Thorazine Shuffle" at Hunter Mountain's Mountain Jam Festival on Saturday.
The seventh annual Mountain Jam Festival at Hunter Mountain went off splendidly over the weekend, and featured a showstopping act from a diva-esque... Read more
Jun. 4, 2011
Photo of the Mamakating rail trail from the Open Space Institute.
It's National Trails Day today, and the New York City-based Open Space Institute has something to celebrate: the recent acquisition of three miles of the old O&W rail bed in the town... Read more
Jun. 3, 2011
A delivery truck headed east on Route 28 in Phoenicia yesterday afternoon caused a collision with a pickup truck driven by a local teenager, totaling the pickup and injuring its occupants. A press release from the Shandaken Police Department:
The Town of... Read more
Jun. 2, 2011
Deadpan quote of the week goes to Callicoon dairy farmer Adam Diehl, the subject of a story in Tuesday's Sullivan County Democrat. Here's Diehl on the apocalyptic storm that blew through his farm last week, uprooting trees, tearing shingles off roofs and... Read more
Jun. 2, 2011
Video clip about the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers by filmmaker Carole Hart, maker of the documentary film For The Next Seven Generations.
In October of 2004, thirteen elders from indigenous cultures scattered around the world... Read more
Jun. 2, 2011
Photo of the Upper Delaware River at Hawk's Nest, near the spot where a rafter drowned on Saturday. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Three people drowned in local waterways over the Memorial Day weekend.
On Monday, two fishermen lost their footing... Read more
Jun. 1, 2011
This weekend brings musical fairytales to the Shandaken Theatrical Society -- but don't expect a sweet little bedtime story. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's dark, witty remix of familiar fables, directed by STS's own Amy Wallace, opens this Friday,... Read more
Jun. 1, 2011
The Viviana Hansen Gallery, a cozy little trove of works from local artists and lovingly curated antiques that has been a fixture of Delhi's Main Street for the last five years, has packed up and moved -- but not too far. The gallery recently announced... Read more
May. 31, 2011
45-year-old Kerry Castello, who was facing charges related to a string of armed robberies in Massachusetts, apparently hanged himself in the Sullivan County jail on Sunday, the Mid-Hudson News reports.
When Castello was arrested on May 19, he had been a... Read more