Honored twice for Beacon series

The Highlands Current this month won six awards from the New York News Publishers Association and recognition from the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

The NYNPA on Thursday (May 30) recognized The Current among newspapers with circulations of 10,000 or less for columns by Michael Turton; business reporting by Jeff Simms, Leonard Sparks and Brian PJ Cronin for Beacon: Then, Now and How; beat reporting by Joey Asher, on education; page design by Pierce Strudler; newspaper promotion by Teresa Lagerman for Ice Cream Passport; and multi-advertiser page by Strudler and Michele Gedney for Shop Local.

The Current has won 34 Awards for Excellence from NYNPA since 2017.

Simms, Sparks and Cronin won the SPJ award on May 16 for outstanding coverage by a newspaper with less than 100,000 circulation for Beacon: Then, Now and How. It was the second consecutive year The Current has won the category.

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