Lissa Harris
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Lissa Harris is the founder and publisher of the Watershed Post.
Articles
Jan. 4, 2011
Not a minute too soon: Soggy, soggy Delhi is joining nine other communities across the country in a pilot project to map flooding data.
Locally, the study is being sponsored by the USGS and the Delaware County Soil and Water Conservation District. The... Read more
Dec. 31, 2010
In light of the deep staffing cuts planned for Belleayre Mountain, the idea of an authority to manage the ski center -- much like the one that governs Whiteface and Gore Mountain, New York's other state-run ski centers -- is once again getting some... Read more
Dec. 30, 2010
Sidney Center has water contamination problems. And Dawn Rivers Baker, former candidate for supervisor of Sidney, is angry about it.
Did you know that a sizable chunk of the population of the Town of Sidney does not have access to clean drinking water?... Read more
Dec. 29, 2010
Paul Smart at WGXC has written a tribute to Willow poet Janine Pommy Vega, who died last Thursday.
I met Vega just once, almost thirty years ago, when I was a third grader in Mrs. Wells' class at Phoenicia Elementary School. She visited our class to do... Read more
Dec. 28, 2010
If you're sitting on a glorious snowscape up in the hills, and are willing to rent it out in February, you might want to talk to Vicart Entertainment. From the Hudson Valley Film Commission:
The film which features 4 actors getting ready for a mountain... Read more
Dec. 27, 2010
Until February 11, Budget Travel Magazine is taking votes on which of twenty small American towns is the coolest. In the running: artsy, funky Phoenicia.
Two and a half hours north of New York City, this tiny town in the Catskill Mountains is a smaller... Read more
Dec. 23, 2010
Warp drive: In the Roxbury Motel's new Final Frontier suite, a "window" peers into a skyful of shooting stars.
After months of hammering, sheetrocking, tiling and mood-lighting, the mighty fortress of fabulosity overlooking the East Branch in Roxbury is... Read more
Dec. 23, 2010
Ulster County executive Mike Hein visited Phoenicia's Main Street yesterday afternoon, to discuss the county's response to the village's increasingly dire flood problems. Hein, who promised the county's support for the town of Shandaken in an application... Read more
Dec. 22, 2010
All hands were on deck at the Kingston Fire Department last night, as a fire raged at the former St. Peter's Elementary School building on Adams Street. No one was hurt.
The Daily Freeman has video.
As does the Times Herald-Record.
Former alderman... Read more
Dec. 22, 2010
Among the local projects that watched their funding evaporate last week, when Senate Republicans voted down a $1.2 trillion budget package: A $500,000 earmark for fighting Asian longhorned beetle. The Daily Mail reports:
Several earmarks destined for the... Read more
Dec. 21, 2010
Jennifer Kabat, who just started a new blog about Plattekill Mountain and winter life in the Catskills, finds a scrap of a Harlequin romance novel embedded in the snow on the Upper Face and traces the clue back to its source:
So how does a book get... Read more
Dec. 20, 2010
A meeting of the Sullivan County Industrial Development Agency's board got heated last week when a local dairy farmer chastised the IDA for not doing more to help struggling farmers. The Sullivan County Democrat reports:
[Sullivan County Farm Network] co... Read more
Dec. 19, 2010
On Friday, town and village officials from municipalities along the lower Esopus, as well as the state Department of Environmental Conservation, met with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection to talk about muddy water. Specifically,... Read more
Dec. 17, 2010
In the New York Daily News today: A glowing profile of Kingston's emerging high-tech microbusiness community, complete with photos of swank lofts, breathless real estate price quotes, and paeans to the city's thriving art scene. (Oh yes. They even used... Read more
Dec. 15, 2010
The Daily Mail reports:
CATSKILL — A former Coxsackie police sergeant and substance abuse educator was charged with drunk driving for the second time in the last decade.
Albany police officer Brian Lutz, who was once a Drug Abuse Resistance Education... Read more
Dec. 15, 2010
The Times Herald-Record's Adam Bosch reports that the state Department of Enviromental Conservation is pressuring the New York City Department of Environmental Protection to develop a better plan for releasing water from the Ashokan Reservoir into the... Read more
Dec. 14, 2010
The future of community FM radio is currently being plotted in the back rooms of the US Senate, in the form of a bill that could dramatically increase the number of licenses available to community radio stations.
The bill has broad support from both the... Read more
Dec. 14, 2010
The Daily Freeman's William Kemble reports that officials from towns along the muddy banks of the lower Esopus are meeting with the state DEC today, to hammer out talking points for another meeting to be held Friday with the New York City DEP.
The topic... Read more
Dec. 13, 2010
Who could have guessed, when the little Delaware County town of Sidney was being painted as a hotbed of bigotry on Comedy Central and MSNBC a couple of months ago, that the town would end up being nationally singled out as an object lesson on how to... Read more
Dec. 13, 2010
A press release issued today by the Delaware Sheriff's Department reports that the county responded to two car accidents on Friday. The release:
December 10, 2010
Sheriff's Deputies investigated a 2 car property damage accident on State 10 in the hamlet... Read more