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Documentary follows refugees arriving from Syria

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Amazing Tales

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Story slam series to begin in Beacon

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Match the view to the Garrison home that provides it

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Worth one laugh …

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Let There Be Light

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Second-by-second, the sun will return

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Highlands kids who did not enjoy meeting Santa

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A visit to a new brewery north of Beacon

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Fantastic Winter

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Beacon show plays with Gaelic myth

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Beacon’s Building Blocks

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Once dominant, the local brick industry has vanished

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Beacon’s Dance Company

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Highlands teens get taste of professional life

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Worth one laugh (maybe) …

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It’s Mercutio versus Tybalt, and there are no winners

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Nominate a Poet Laureate

by Staff December 11, 2018December 7, 2018 Why you can trust The Current

Applications for Dutchess County due Jan. 2

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Wanted: Singers Free on Mondays

Alison Rooney by Alison Rooney December 9, 2018December 7, 2018 Why you can trust The Current

Putnam Chorale hoping to recruit in Philipstown

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The Cartoon

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Worth one laugh …

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Holiday Treats

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A village of gingerbread

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A Stage Filled with Doubt

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New company to perform a certain parable

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Happy to See the Dentist

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Luz Bailey’s patients don’t complain, even about root canals

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Black and Light

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Cold Spring painter frames action with darkness

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Dancers in a Row

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