REMEMBERING THOSE LOST — Haldane band teacher Jessica Stein played “Taps” at the high school on Wednesday during the district’s annual 9/11 memorial service organized with the Putnam County Youth Bureau. Twenty-three Putnam residents lost their lives in 2001. “Taps” is credited to Daniel Butterfield, a Civil War general whose estate became the Haldane campus. (Photo by Megan Shields)
BOOK WINNERS — Members of the middle school Battle of the Books team from Butterfield Library in Cold Spring, who won the 14-team tournament on Sept. 7 for the second year in a row, were recognized the next day during The Hoot, an annual festival organized by the Little Stony Point Citizens Association. They are showing off a Little Free Library box newly installed at the park. (Photo by Ross Corsair)
LUMINARIA — The Philipstown Behavioral Health Hub held its annual candlelight event at the Cold Spring waterfront on Aug. 31 to remember people lost to overdoses. The Hub also lights a luminaria each night at its Stone Street office. If you need addiction support, visit philipstownhub.org. (Photo provided)
DEDICATION — The Rev. Steve Schunk and John Gladstone Mills III posed on Sept. 8 following the dedication at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Cold Spring of a plaque honoring the Rev. John Gladstone Mills Jr., the rector from 1961 to 1992, and his wife, Margaret. Mills was also the chaplain for the Cold Spring Fire Co. for 50 years. (Photo provided)
