• SUPPORT LOCAL NEWS
  • ADVERTISE
  • FREE UPDATES
  • July 12, 2025
  • Home
  • Philipstown
  • Beacon
  • Arts
    • Columns
    • Food
    • Gardening
  • Sports
  • Obits
  • Advertise
    • View Media Kit
    • Place Classified Ad
    • View Classified Ads
    • Pay for Your Ad
    • Special Sections
  • Reader Guide
    • Who We Are & How to Contact Us
      • Contact
      • About The Current
      • Board of Directors
      • Editorial Standards
    • Community Resources
      • Events Calendar
      • Storm Updates
      • Business Directory
      • Local Officials
    • Print Paper
      • Back Issues
      • Where to Find
      • Mail Delivery
    • Free Updates by Email
    • Podcast Episodes
    • Student Journalists
    • Reader Comments
  • Support Our Work
    • Become a member
    • Renew your membership
    • Give a gift membership
    • Make a special donation
    • Update your information
  • Home
  • About The Current
  • Contact
  • Advertise in The Current
  • Editorial Standards
  • Become a Member
  • Facebook Page
  • Instagram
  • Bluesky
  • Linkedin
  • YouTube
Skip to content
  • Home
  • About The Current
  • Contact
  • Advertise in The Current
  • Editorial Standards
  • Become a Member
  • Facebook Page
  • Instagram
  • Bluesky
  • Linkedin
  • YouTube
The Current

The Current

News for Philipstown (Cold Spring, Nelsonville, Garrison) and Beacon, New York

  • SUPPORT LOCAL NEWS
  • ADVERTISE
  • FREE UPDATES
  • July 12, 2025
Donate
  • Home
  • Philipstown
  • Beacon
  • Arts
    • Columns
    • Food
    • Gardening
  • Sports
  • Obits
  • Advertise
    • View Media Kit
    • Place Classified Ad
    • View Classified Ads
    • Pay for Your Ad
    • Special Sections
  • Reader Guide
    • Who We Are & How to Contact Us
      • Contact
      • About The Current
      • Board of Directors
      • Editorial Standards
    • Community Resources
      • Events Calendar
      • Storm Updates
      • Business Directory
      • Local Officials
    • Print Paper
      • Back Issues
      • Where to Find
      • Mail Delivery
    • Free Updates by Email
    • Podcast Episodes
    • Student Journalists
    • Reader Comments
  • Support Our Work
    • Become a member
    • Renew your membership
    • Give a gift membership
    • Make a special donation
    • Update your information

Wide Angle

Kid pilot with toy jet pack against autumn sky background. Happy child playing outdoors
Posted inColumnists

Wide Angle: Play Time

Avatar photo by Stowe Boyd April 26, 2024April 28, 2024 Why you can trust The Current

The case for a low-tech childhood

Main Street in Beacon, shown here in a mid-century postcard, was disrupted by Urban Renewal.
Posted inColumnists

Wide Angle: Urban Orphans

Avatar photo by Stowe Boyd March 15, 2024March 15, 2024 Why you can trust The Current

Secondary Main Streets need some attention

Play Airlines offers flights from Stewart to Iceland (Photo provided)
Posted inColumnists

Wide Angle: Why You Can’t Fly From Stewart

Avatar photo by Stowe Boyd February 9, 2024February 9, 2024 Why you can trust The Current

The case for re-regulating the airlines

Posted inColumnists

Wide Angle: New York’s Decline

Avatar photo by Stowe Boyd December 29, 2023December 29, 2023 Why you can trust The Current

Housing crisis, high taxes take their toll

Hot climate in the city with strong sunlight in flat design.
Posted inColumnists

Wide Angle: How to Cool a City

Avatar photo by Stowe Boyd November 17, 2023December 26, 2023 Why you can trust The Current

Preparing for a hotter future

outdoor manual worker clean the fallen leaves on the road by blower in autumn
Posted inColumnists

Wide Angle: Dirty and Loud

Avatar photo by Stowe Boyd October 6, 2023October 6, 2023 Why you can trust The Current

The impacts of leaf blowers

EllieQ is marketed as an “empathetic care companion.” Intuition Robotics
Posted inColumnists

Wide Angle: The Loneliness Epidemic

Avatar photo by Stowe Boyd August 18, 2023August 18, 2023 Why you can trust The Current

Restructuring lives around people instead of work

Cold Spring parking
Posted inColumnists

Wide Angle: The High Cost of Free Parking

Avatar photo by Stowe Boyd July 7, 2023July 18, 2023 Why you can trust The Current

The spot may be free, but we’re all paying for it

toilets
Posted inColumnists

Wide Angle: The Trouble With Toilets

Avatar photo by Stowe Boyd May 19, 2023August 26, 2023 Why you can trust The Current

All dressed up and nowhere to go

fine 3d image of grunge jail background
Posted inColumnists

Wide Angle: Prison Blues

Avatar photo by Stowe Boyd April 14, 2023April 15, 2023 Why you can trust The Current

What should we do with shuttered prisons?

Expensive housing market vector concept. Unaffordable, out of reach price, market crisis, recession. Minimal design. Eps10 vector illustration.
Posted inColumnists

Wide Angle: Priced Out, Part III

Avatar photo by Stowe Boyd March 10, 2023March 10, 2023 Why you can trust The Current

Possible solutions to the housing crisis

Expensive housing market vector concept. Unaffordable, out of reach price, market crisis, recession. Minimal design. Eps10 vector illustration.
Posted inColumnists

Wide Angle: Priced Out, Part II

Avatar photo by Stowe Boyd February 10, 2023February 10, 2023 Why you can trust The Current

Are there any answers to the affordable housing crisis?

Expensive housing market vector concept. Unaffordable, out of reach price, market crisis, recession. Minimal design. Eps10 vector illustration.
Posted inColumnists

Wide Angle: Priced Out

Avatar photo by Stowe Boyd December 16, 2022December 16, 2022 Why you can trust The Current

The housing crisis and the Highlands

Ebike
Posted inColumnists

Wide Angle: E-bike Encounters

Avatar photo by Stowe Boyd November 11, 2022November 11, 2022 Why you can trust The Current

What rules apply to e-bikes?

Trending Now

  • A falling object destroyed Christine Ortiz’s windshield. Photo by Michelle Kupper

    Surprise from the Sky

  • he site now hosts a Speedway gas station.
 Photo by L. Sparks

    Continental Commons Faces New Lawsuit

  • Michael Gilligan

    Michael Gilligan (1936-2025)

  • Honor Roll

    Haldane High School Honor Roll

  • Maya Beck

    5 Questions: Maya Beck

Carefull MD
Howland
Brothers Tree
See your ad here. Email us.

Free Updates in Your Inbox







See your classified ad here. Click for details.

Featured Ads

  • Sell Your Old Car Through Peddle
  • Healing Bodywork with Joy Matalon
  • Consumer Cellular from $20 Per Month
  • Acupuncture for Ease in Body + Mind
  • For Rent: Cold Spring Apartment 2BR/1BA
  • For Rent: Philipstown Office Space
Find Your News
15
Cheese Shops
Chapel
See your ad here. Email us.

Follow Us

Facebook
Instagram
Mastodon
Bluesky

ABOUT THE CURRENT

We are a reader-funded, nonprofit media organization that serves the communities of Beacon and Philipstown (Cold Spring, Nelsonville, Garrison, North Highlands and Continental Village) in the Hudson Highlands of New York.

HOW WE REPORT

The Current is a member of The Trust Project, a consortium of news outlets that has adopted standards to allow readers to more easily assess the credibility of their journalism. Our best practices, including our verification and correction policies, can be accessed here.

CONTACT

The Highlands Current
142 Main St.
Cold Spring, NY 10516
845-809-5584
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

  • Our Awards
  • Editorial Standards
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookie Policy
© 2025 Highlands Current Inc Powered by Newspack Accessibility Statement
  • Facebook Page
  • Instagram
  • Bluesky
  • Linkedin
  • YouTube
pixel