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Reporter’s Notebook

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Reporter’s Notebook: Back in the Saddle

Jeff Simms by Jeff Simms June 10, 2022June 11, 2022 Why you can trust The Current

Our Beacon Editor checks back in

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Reporter’s Notebook: The COVID Shrug

Leonard Sparks by Leonard Sparks May 20, 2022March 3, 2025 Why you can trust The Current

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

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Reporter’s Notebook: Zeebuffo Coming to Garrison

Avatar photo by Michael Turton April 1, 2022April 9, 2022 Why you can trust The Current

Cross-species draws praise in The Ungulate Times

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Reporter’s Notebook: How This Journalist Got Scammed

Avatar photo by Michael Turton March 11, 2022March 11, 2022 Why you can trust The Current

When money is mentioned, triple your intuitive radar

News from around the world
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Reporter’s Notebook: What is ‘Local’ News?

Avatar photo by Michael Turton February 25, 2022February 25, 2022 Why you can trust The Current

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

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

Avatar photo by Sam Harle February 11, 2022January 5, 2024 Why you can trust The Current

Much has changed in city over two decades

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Reporter’s Notebook: Are Evictions Coming?

Leonard Sparks by Leonard Sparks January 28, 2022April 8, 2022 Why you can trust The Current

Uncertainty returns as moratorium expires 

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Reporter’s Notebook: Drifting Away

Avatar photo by Lily Zuckerman January 28, 2022January 5, 2024 Why you can trust The Current

Lost in social media’s addictive pull 

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Editor’s Notebook: Looks Like We Made It

Chip Rowe by Chip Rowe January 1, 2022June 3, 2025 Why you can trust The Current

The Current publishes its 500th issue

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Reporter’s Notebook: Appreciating Frank Bugg

Jeff Simms by Jeff Simms December 18, 2021January 7, 2022 Why you can trust The Current

A 1961 Beacon grad who pushed for teacher diversity at schools

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

Avatar photo by Michael Turton December 5, 2021December 5, 2021 Why you can trust The Current

What it takes to serve a village

Main Street Beacon
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Reporter’s Notebook: How High is Too Damn High?

Jeff Simms by Jeff Simms November 19, 2021December 5, 2021 Why you can trust The Current

A look at Beacon’s affordability crisis

Beacon Portland
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Reporter’s Notebook: Keep Beacon Weird

Kat Merry by Kat Merry November 6, 2021November 5, 2021 Why you can trust The Current

Is Beacon an East Coast version of Portland, Oregon?

Cristian Chironi on Long Island with his Fiat
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Reporters’ Notebook: The Art of Experience

Avatar photo by Michael Turton October 23, 2021October 26, 2021 Why you can trust The Current

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

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Reporter’s Notebook: New Year, Old Concerns

Avatar photo by Ezra Beato September 18, 2021January 5, 2024 Why you can trust The Current

Mask neglect, unvaccinated students risk another shutdown

Officer Silverio Santiago drives through Beacon on patrol.
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Reporter’s Notebook: A Day with the Beacon Police

Jeff Simms by Jeff Simms August 20, 2021April 21, 2023 Why you can trust The Current

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

Philipstown Times
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Reporter’s Notebook: Philipstown’s Lost Newspaper

Avatar photo by Michael Turton April 2, 2021April 9, 2021 Why you can trust The Current

The short life of The Times

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Reporter’s Notebook: We All Could Have Died

Avatar photo by Michael Turton February 23, 2021March 12, 2021 Why you can trust The Current

Nine Philipstown residents who flirted with the Grim Reaper

Putnam County courthouse
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Editor’s Notebook: The Meeting Before the Meeting

Chip Rowe by Chip Rowe February 19, 2021January 21, 2022 Why you can trust The Current

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

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

Jeff Simms by Jeff Simms January 16, 2021March 12, 2021 Why you can trust The Current

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

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

Jeff Simms by Jeff Simms November 27, 2020April 21, 2023 Why you can trust The Current

City’s last communtiy center closed in 2011

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Editor’s Notebook: Behind the (Blue) Veil

Chip Rowe by Chip Rowe October 2, 2020January 21, 2022 Why you can trust The Current

An update on our efforts to see police disciplinary records

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Reporter’s Notebook: Are We That Far Apart?

Jeff Simms by Jeff Simms July 24, 2020August 28, 2020 Why you can trust The Current

Dueling protesters line each side of Route 9D

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Editor’s Notebook: 10 Years Young

Chip Rowe by Chip Rowe July 3, 2020January 21, 2022 Why you can trust The Current

A decade later, The Current is thriving

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Reporter’s Notebook: The Art of Arts

Alison Rooney by Alison Rooney July 3, 2020July 3, 2020 Why you can trust The Current

Highlights from 10 years of coverage

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