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

The Highlands Current (https://highlandscurrent.org/category/columns/page/3/)

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Reporter’s Notebook: How This Journalist Got Scammed

By Michael Turton, Reporter | March 11, 2022

When money is mentioned, triple your intuitive radar

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Illustration by Antonio Rodriguez

Living Green: Climate Anxiety

By Krystal Ford, Columnist | March 11, 2022

It’s rational to be worried

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Nelsonville woods

Out There: Tree’s a Crowd

By Brian PJ Cronin, Reporter | February 25, 2022

The past and the future of the Nelsonville Woods

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Reporter’s Notebook: What is ‘Local’ News?

By Michael Turton, Reporter | February 25, 2022

“All politics may be local, but I wonder if that’s true of all news as well.”

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induction stove

Living Green: Cooking With Magnets

By Krystal Ford, Columnist | February 11, 2022

The joy of cooking without gas

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use a child as a weight during leg lifts

Kid Friendly: Power of Self-Love

By Katie Hellmuth Martin, Columnist | February 11, 2022

“If the impulse is to get angry at the thought of doing something satisfying for yourself, it’s time for a pause.”

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facial or surgical mask on top of the eviction note

Reporter’s Notebook: Are Evictions Coming?

By Leonard Sparks, Senior Editor | January 28, 2022

Uncertainty returns as moratorium expires

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Rae Baresel, Mike Diblasi, Steven Diblasi, Ryan Thorpe and Jay Lemos

Out There: Summiting Everest (in Beacon)

By Brian PJ Cronin, Reporter | January 28, 2022

24 hours of “fun” on the mountain

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Living Green: What Gives Me Hope for the New Year

By Krystal Ford, Columnist | January 14, 2022

Introducing the Philipstown Climate Fund

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Editor’s Notebook: Looks Like We Made It

By Chip Rowe, Editor | January 1, 2022

The Current publishes its 500th issue

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A foggy December on the Hudson

Out There: Season of Mists

By Brian PJ Cronin, Reporter | December 31, 2021

Transitions in an era of climate change

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Living Green: Batten Down the Hatches

By Krystal Ford, Columnist | December 18, 2021

Introducing a new column on lowering your carbon footprint

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Reporter’s Notebook: Appreciating Frank Bugg

By Jeff Simms, Beacon Editor | December 18, 2021

A 1961 Beacon grad who pushed for teacher diversity at schools

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Merandy Early Murphy

Reporter’s Notebook: A Changing of the Guard in Cold Spring

By Michael Turton, Reporter | December 5, 2021

What it takes to serve a village

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The Cornish Estate

Out There: Unearthing the Cornish Estate

By Brian PJ Cronin, Reporter | November 9, 2021

The hidden history of Breakneck Valley

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Beacon Portland

Reporter’s Notebook: Keep Beacon Weird

By Kat Merry, Contributor | November 6, 2021

Is Beacon an East Coast version of Portland, Oregon?

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Skateboard Pilates

Kid Friendly: Surrendering in Motion

By Katie Hellmuth Martin, Columnist | October 26, 2021

“Self-deprecation is the norm in female-speak, and I’m quite sick of it.”

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Cristian Chironi on Long Island with his Fiat

Reporters’ Notebook: The Art of Experience

By Michael Turton, Reporter | October 23, 2021

An artist, a reporter, a lawyer, a real estate agent, and a 50-year-old car

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Some of the colors of the New Fall Photo by B. Cronin

Out There: Southern Comfort

By Brian PJ Cronin, Reporter | October 12, 2021

Learning to love The New October

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Kid Friendly: Kids Talk Vaccines

By Katie Hellmuth Martin, Columnist | September 26, 2021

Their huge little minds turn things over and over

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The Beacon Fire Tower, illuminated

Out There: The Glow Up

By Brian PJ Cronin, Reporter | September 14, 2021

Honoring the legacy of New York’s fire towers

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The 11-year-old, committed at the moment to going to cosmetology school, colors her hair using tin foil and Manic Panic.

Kid Friendly: College Expectations

By Katie Hellmuth Martin, Columnist | August 31, 2021

What it really means to go – or not go – to college

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Officer Silverio Santiago drives through Beacon on patrol.

Reporter’s Notebook: A Day with the Beacon Police

By Jeff Simms, Beacon Editor | August 20, 2021

A reporter brings questions from readers – and one of his own

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Out There: The Only Runner You Have to Beat

By Brian PJ Cronin, Reporter | August 13, 2021

Hint: It’s not the one in front of you (or behind you)

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Kid Friendly: Love & Marriage

By Katie Hellmuth Martin, Columnist | August 3, 2021

What if we threw showers for newly uncoupled people?