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The Highlands Current is a nonprofit weekly newspaper and daily website that covers Beacon, Cold Spring, Garrison, Nelsonville and Philipstown, New York, in the Hudson Highlands. This podcast includes select stories read aloud.
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Saving Garrison's Landing (opens the original)
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Open Space Institute begins resiliency planning David Lilburne still remembers when Superstorm Sandy brought the river to his bookstore on Garrison's Landing in October 2012, on the heels of another storm. "The old tide didn't go out, the new tide came in on the old tide, and then we had a bloody big storm off Manhattan," he recalled, sitting in Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, which he owns with his wife, Cathy. "They predicted it. They said, 'Mega storm coming, be careful.' " During past flood
Putnam Legislators Increase Power Fund balance Papers of record Food aid (opens the original)
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Take bigger role in ethics board, spending The Putnam Legislature reshaped the balance of power in county government on Tuesday (Sept. 1), voting itself authority to appoint most of the Board of Ethics and take a bigger role in spending surplus revenues. Legislators voted 8-0 to strip the county executive of the power to nominate all five members of the Board of Ethics, with Toni Addonizio abstaining because she is the subject of an ethics complaint. The law retains two nominations for the count
Putnam Puts Haldane Bills on Hold (opens the original)
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Cites accidental removal of STAR exemptions Putnam County has placed a temporary hold on tax bills for the Haldane school district for 2026-27, citing a calculation error. In a statement, the county said a "file control error" caused STAR exemptions to be removed. It said new invoices would be mailed by Wednesday (Sept. 2) on pink paper with "Corrected Bill" at the top. The STAR exemption is available to homeowners who have received it for the same primary residence since 2015 and have a combine
Bands on the Fly (opens the original)
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Cabo brothers and friends jam at Savage Wonder The Everything Zine is a guerrilla marketing tool for the Everything Jam, held every Sunday evening at Savage Wonder in Beacon for the time being. Though the all-inclusive titles conjure images of visual and musical mayhem, there is method to the madness. The plain-Jane zine includes black-and-white drawings, event listings and reminders about the jam — a series of improvised seven-minute-or-so sessions performed by an ever-rotating cast of musician
Cold Spring's Mystery Safe (opens the original)
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The big question: what's inside? Another Cold Spring mystery has surfaced, earning a place alongside how B Street got its name, who stole the disco ball from the riverfront bandstand at the turn of the millennium and who published the fake PCNR in 2012. Now people want to know the story behind a sturdy 19th-century safe that has been sitting for weeks outside 37 Main St., where Angie's Cafe is scheduled to reopen soon after moving from 116 Main. Brian Tormey, the building's owner, said his prede
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