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Hotel staff weren’t the only ones who cleaned up at last weekend’s New York Press Association Spring Conference, held at the Gideon Putnam in upstate Saratoga Springs.The Queens Chronicle took

A heated Beacon City Council meeting sees passionate debate over a Gaza ceasefire resolution, revealing deep local wounds and racial tensions. Amidst chaos, the resolution passes, but not without dissent. Meanwhile, Beacon grapples with economic shifts and affordability challenges, while entrepreneurs navigate a changing landscape. Future plans for the city promise both development and community engagement initiatives.

A planned walking-and-biking path stretching 7.5-miles along the Hudson River from Cold Spring to Beacon, the Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail project has divided the Highlands community.

The Highlands Current, By Brian PJ Cronin, Reporter | September 29, 2023  #antinuclear #nuclear-free #NoNukes Holtec considering ‘multiple options’ but won’t say more A month after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill preventing Holtec from discharging water from Indian Point’s spent fuel pools into the Hudson River, the company said it hasn’t yet decided what it will do with the waste.…

A new collaborative community project, Beacon’s West End Story, is compiling resources to tell the story of a neighborhood lost to Urban Renewal. The project lays the groundwork to better understand the city’s upheaval over the grand social engineering plans, which collided with the Civil Rights movement and uprooted people’s lives.

Among the categories where Cardinal is a finalist are Business of the Year and Outstanding Coverage.

Honored by National Newspaper Association and Society for Features Journalism

He helped secure landmark status for more than two dozen theaters in the 1980s, then initiated the design competition that led to a new TKTS booth.

Jack Goldstein, a preservationist who in the 1980s reacted to the razing of several venerable Broadway theaters under a Times Square redevelopment plan by helping to organize a successful campaign to give landmark status to more than two dozen other theaters, died June 16 in Cold Spring, New York, in Putnam County. He was 74.

A proposed 7.5-mile linear park to connect Cold Spring and Beacon has met resistance from some locals concerned about visitation, cost and construction.