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

March 31, 2023


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Reporter’s Notebook

Columnists
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Reporter’s Notebook: The Book With Everyone’s Number

By Michael Turton, Reporter | February 24, 2023

An old phone book stirs up memories

Columnists
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Reporter’s Notebook: Is Crime Up in Beacon?

By Jeff Simms, Beacon Editor | February 3, 2023

How perception stacks up against the stats

High Schools
Violeta (right) celebrates with her parents, Eduardo and Francisca, and sisters, Cala and Rita, after the family moved to Cold Spring in 2015.

Reporter’s Notebook: Farewell, Mi Pueblo Acogedor

By Violeta Edwards Salas, Correspondent/Student Journalists Program | December 16, 2022

Student correspondent returns to Santiago

Columnists
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Reporter’s Notebook: I Was a Foodie and Didn’t Know It

By Michael Turton, Reporter | July 1, 2022

The culinary delights of growing up in rural Canada

Columnists
Back pain

Reporter’s Notebook: Back in the Saddle

By Jeff Simms, Beacon Editor | June 10, 2022

Our Beacon Editor checks back in

Columnists
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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

Columnists
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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

Columnists
News from around the world

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
Beacon

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
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 

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 

Columnists
500 issues

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
Haldane High School

Reporter’s Notebook: New Year, Old Concerns

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

Mask neglect, unvaccinated students risk another shutdown

Homepage Top Story
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
Putnam County courthouse

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

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