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

March 27, 2023


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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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Editor’s Notebook: The Meeting Before the Meeting

By Chip Rowe, Editor | February 19, 2021

The Open Meetings Law (and how to get around it)

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Editor’s Notebook: Behind the (Blue) Veil

By Chip Rowe, Editor | October 2, 2020

An update on our efforts to see police disciplinary records

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Editor’s Notebook: 10 Years Young

By Chip Rowe, Editor | July 3, 2020

A decade later, The Current is thriving

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Editor’s Notebook: Asking the Asker

By Chip Rowe, Editor | June 9, 2020

Reporter Michael Turton is put on the spot

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Editor’s Notebook: Top Secrets

By Chip Rowe, Editor | May 1, 2020

The early results of our search for “confidential” Putnam records

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Editor’s Notebook: Why No Room Tax?

By Chip Rowe, Editor | September 13, 2019

Putnam has no hotels, but hundreds of rooms

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Editor’s Notebook: My Code of Conduct

By Chip Rowe, Editor | August 16, 2019

Life lessons from an unlikely source

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Editor’s Notebook: Why I Flipped on Secrecy

By Chip Rowe, Editor | August 2, 2019

I was concerned about the law, but now I love it

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