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March Mania tourney was a success!

March 20, 2024 Editorial Staff

The Center of Highland Falls/Town of Highlands Recreation Department’s eighth annual March Mania basketball tournament (with cheerleaders!) was held last weekend, with organizers and participants declaring the event a success.

Pat Mahan: Back to the track he goes

March 13, 2024 Mary Jane Pitt

Long-time News of the Highlands readers: you may read this story and think back to reading similar stories back in 2001 and 2008 … ‘local kid makes good’ type of stories featuring a native of Highland Falls.

Falk grateful for the help of many community partners

March 1, 2023 Mary Jane Pitt

Words like “thank you”, “partnership”, “together” “sharing” and “reaching out” peppered a conversation with Town of Highlands Recreation Director Aaron Falk, days after a Saturday football and cheerleading clinic at West Point.

JIO’s Powerlifting Club is going places!

August 31, 2022 Mary Jane Pitt

A couple of weeks ago, the Highland Falls-Fort Montgomery Central School District posted a shout out to a handful of O’Neill High School students who had just been named as state and national champions in powerlifting.

Athletic trainer joins O’Neill

February 9, 2022 Mary Jane Pitt

For about five years now O’Neill High School has contracted with Access Physical Therapy for a part-time athletic trainer to work with the school’s student athletes.

Congrats to the Raider soccer girls!

April 21, 2021 Mary Jane Pitt

With a 2-0 win over Highland on Monday afternoon, the O’Neill girls’ varsity soccer team earned it’s third straight Section IX Class B championship.

Winter sports underway at O’Neill

February 17, 2021 Mary Jane Pitt

On Thursday, Feb. 4 the Board of Education of the Highland Falls-Fort Mont-gomery Central School District approved higher-risk winter sports to be played.

O’Neill’s spring athletes honored

June 10, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

The spring sports season is always special, O’Neill High School Principal Debbie Brand told an auditorium full of athletes and their parents on Monday evening.

Saturday will be ‘Opening Day 2.0’ in town

May 2, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

If you ask Town of Highlands Recreation Director Aaron Falk, he’d probably tell you that he’s not a big Mother Nature fan right now.

It’s a parade!

April 19, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

The annual Little League/Ponytail League/Coach Pitch and T-ball parade will take place on Main St. in Highland Falls on Saturday, April 27, stepping off at 10 a.m. The rain date for the event is Sunday, April 28.