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

May 21, 2022


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Reporter’s Notebook

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Reporter’s Notebook: The COVID Shrug

By Leonard Sparks, Senior Editor | May 20, 2022

“I am built for sprints, not marathons, which is what the pandemic has become.”

Columnists
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Reporter’s Notebook: Zeebuffo Coming to Garrison

By Michael Turton, Reporter | April 1, 2022

Cross-species draws praise in The Ungulate Times

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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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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.”

High Schools
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Reporter’s Notebook: Beacon Through the Eyes of the Class of 2022

By Sam Harle, Correspondent/Student Journalists Program | February 11, 2022

Much has changed in city over two decades

Columnists
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Reporter’s Notebook: Are Evictions Coming?

By Leonard Sparks, Senior Editor | January 28, 2022

Uncertainty returns as moratorium expires 

High Schools
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Reporter’s Notebook: Drifting Away

By Lily Zuckerman, Correspondent/Student Journalists Program | January 28, 2022

Lost in social media’s addictive pull 

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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

Columnists
Frank Bugg

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

Columnists
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

Beacon News
Main Street Beacon

Reporter’s Notebook: How High is Too Damn High?

By Jeff Simms, Beacon Editor | November 19, 2021

A look at Beacon’s affordability crisis

Columnists
Beacon Portland

Reporter’s Notebook: Keep Beacon Weird

By Kat Merry, Contributor | November 6, 2021

Is Beacon an East Coast version of Portland, Oregon?

Columnists
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

High Schools
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Reporter’s Notebook: New Year, Old Concerns

By Ezra Beato, Correspondent/Student Journalists Program | September 18, 2021

Mask neglect, unvaccinated students risk another shutdown

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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

Columnists
Philipstown Times

Reporter’s Notebook: Philipstown’s Lost Newspaper

By Michael Turton, Reporter | April 2, 2021

The short life of The Times

Reporter’s Notebook: We All Could Have Died

By Michael Turton, Reporter | February 23, 2021

Nine Philipstown residents who flirted with the Grim Reaper

Columnists
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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)

West End Lofts

Reporter’s Notebook: Does Beacon Have Enough Affordable Housing?

By Jeff Simms, Beacon Editor | January 16, 2021

Several segments of the city’s population are getting priced out

Beacon News

Reporter’s Notebook: Does Beacon Need a Community Center?

By Jeff Simms, Beacon Editor | November 27, 2020

City’s last communtiy center closed in 2011

Columnists

Editor’s Notebook: Behind the (Blue) Veil

By Chip Rowe, Editor | October 2, 2020

An update on our efforts to see police disciplinary records

Columnists
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Reporter’s Notebook: Are We That Far Apart?

By Jeff Simms, Beacon Editor | July 24, 2020

Dueling protesters line each side of Route 9D

Columnists

Editor’s Notebook: 10 Years Young

By Chip Rowe, Editor | July 3, 2020

A decade later, The Current is thriving

Columnists

Reporter’s Notebook: The Art of Arts

By Alison Rooney, Arts Editor | July 3, 2020

Highlights from 10 years of coverage

Columnists
Michael Turton

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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