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The simple story of ‘One Red Rose’

April 15, 2020 Editorial Staff

With these trying times people are confused, distressed and frightened. The world seems upside down and we are all witness to fears we thought we would never experience in our lifetime. It seems very fitting that here and now is a story of caring, generosity and kindness.

Scouting goes back decades in our region

March 18, 2020 Editorial Staff

Although February was the official month of the founding of the Boy Scouts (on 2/6/1910) making February their 110th anniversary, February was so crowded with historic events, the Boy Scouts were mostly forgotten.

SKAC celebrates 60 years of sculptures

February 19, 2020 Editorial Staff

Storm King Art Center is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year.

The Cozzens name was a famous one

February 19, 2020 Editorial Staff

The Cozzens name in the Village of Highland Falls has always been directly associated with the famous Cozzens Hotel.

Students talk challenges with local leaders

February 12, 2020 Mary Jane Pitt

The entire student body of James I. O’Neill High School was the guest of the school’s JROTC Squadron at a Black History Month program on the morning of February 5.

HF-FMCSD educators agree with Beethoven

January 23, 2020 Mary Jane Pitt

“Music education, and education in the arts in general, is vital to the development of well rounded young men and women who learn to work independently and interdependently and collaborate for a higher purpose.”

A winning team

January 17, 2020 Mary Jane Pitt

Congratulations to O’Neill High School’s Kate Barnes, Adelaide Crow, Samantha Reeves, Emme Richards and Eve Oakley — On January 11, the five competed in an Academic Bowl at Fort Hamilton High School in NYC. The

Coffee, cupcakes & music

January 15, 2020 Editorial Staff

O’Neill High School’s Newspaper club, with the help of the Literary Magazine club, hosted the first JIO Coffee House on Friday, Jan. 10.

Highland Falls has never forgotten Dr. King

January 9, 2020 Editorial Staff

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed the bill that named the third Monday in January as the official observance ‘Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday’.

She designed the 2nd place poster!

December 24, 2019 Editorial Staff

Each year Orange-Ulster BOCES Career and Technical Education students in the Digital Design & Advertising Program create smoking cessation and prevention posters…