An adventurous soul managed to deposit a jack-o-lantern on Halloween atop a Beacon monument marking the 1909 Hudson-Fulton tricentennial. It was still there on Nov. 7 and may be for a while. (Photo by Jeff Simms)

Oscar Cheah, a fourth-grader at Haldane Elementary, was spotted on Morris Avenue waiting for more pumpkins. (Photo by Ross Corsair)

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