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The Highlands Current - News for Philipstown (Cold Spring, Nelsonville, Garrison) and Beacon, New York

January 21, 2020

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Cheetah Haysom

Special Reports

Growing Cash

By Cheetah Haysom | November 30, 2018

What can be done to make farms profitable?

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Black Gold

By Cheetah Haysom | November 16, 2018

Dirt so valuable it’s illegal to remove it

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No One Left to Farm

By Cheetah Haysom | November 2, 2018

What happens when the children move on?

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Who Will Pick the Crops?

By Cheetah Haysom | November 2, 2018

Farmworkers “aging out” with farmers

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The Weeding Robot

By Cheetah Haysom | November 2, 2018

Can machines replace human hands?

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We are a member-supported, nonprofit media organization founded in 2010 that serves the communities of Philipstown (Cold Spring, Nelsonville and Garrison) and Beacon, New York, in the Hudson Highlands.

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    The Hudson River is filling with microplastics. What is the effect? Scientists aren’t sure yet, but no one thinks it’s good.

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