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Reporter’s Notebook

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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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Reporter’s Notebook: Are We That Far Apart?

By Jeff Simms, Beacon Editor | July 24, 2020

Dueling protesters line each side of Route 9D

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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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Reporter’s Notebook: The Art of Arts

By Alison Rooney, Arts Editor | July 3, 2020

Highlights from 10 years of coverage

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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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Reporter’s Notebook: COVID Got You Down?

By Michael Turton, Reporter | May 17, 2020

A few pandemic-coping strategies

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Reporter’s Notebook: Coverage of a Locked-Down World

By Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong, Reporter/Contributing Editor | May 10, 2020

What’s changed putting together a newspaper

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Reporter’s Notebook: Coloring Wars

By Michael Turton, Reporter | May 5, 2020

The battle for my state of mind

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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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Reporter’s Notebook: The Truth Hurts

By Jeff Simms, Beacon Editor | April 18, 2020

I haven’t been a team player. I needed help.

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Reporter’s Notebook: Time to Lean on Old Friends

By Michael Turton, Reporter | April 6, 2020

Allow me to introduce a few faithful companions

Beacon News

Reporter’s Notebook: Running on Empty

By Jeff Simms, Beacon Editor | March 20, 2020

There’s never been a Beacon council meeting like this week’s

Reporter’s Notebook: The Current Goes Outlaw

By Michael Turton, Reporter | March 13, 2020

A winning race formula to benefit Cub Scouts

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Reporter’s Notebook: A Look Before You Leap

By Michael Turton, Reporter | February 28, 2020

Didn’t this just happen four years ago?

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Reporter’s Notebook: In Search of the Perfect Sign

By Michael Turton, Reporter | February 23, 2020

Some help, some confuse, some are just funny

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Reporter’s Notebook: From One Paperboy to Another

By Michael Turton, Reporter | February 7, 2020

Remembering Decatur Myers

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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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Reporter’s Notebook: Would You Survive a Mass Shooting?

By Michael Turton, Reporter | August 16, 2019

County offers training for the unthinkable

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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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Reporter’s Notebook: When Finishing Isn’t Enough

By Jeff Simms, Beacon Editor | August 9, 2019

After 286 miles, I felt deflated rather than inspired

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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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Reporter’s Notebook: Cold Spring’s Riverfront Puzzle

By Michael Turton, Reporter | February 17, 2019

Can the community put the pieces together?

Reporter’s Notebook: The Highly Intelligent American Crow

By Michael Turton, Reporter | April 15, 2012

An underrated personal favorite

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Reporter’s Notebook: One Man’s Yuletide Notebook

By Michael Turton, Reporter | December 24, 2010

Reflections on Christmas past