Also creates advisory board

Mel Laytner, a former longtime foreign correspondent for United Press International and NBC News and retired principal of Laytner’s Linen & Home in New York City, has joined the board of the nonprofit Highlands Current Inc., publisher of The Highlands Current and Highlandscurrent.com.

The other board members are Christine Bockelmann (chair), Joseph Plummer (vice chair), Irvine Flinn (secretary), Nicholas Groombridge (treasurer), Ralph Arditi, Stacey Farley, Bevis Longstreth, Frederick Osborn III and Rudolph S. Rauch.

The corporation also created an advisory board, with five initial members: Suzanne Baker, Christopher Buck, Jason McManus, Judith Mogul and Andrew C. Revkin.

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