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Beacon, New York is located in Dutchess County. Zip codes in Beacon, NY include 12508. The median home price in Beacon is $249,000 which is roughly $142/per square foot. More Beacon information.

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Saturday May 18 | Times Herald-Record

From its earliest days, Beacon was a working town.

Manufacturing and shipping. Brickworkers and railworkers. When incorporated as a city in 1913, Beacon was known for hatmaking.

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Fri May 17, 2013

Times Herald-Record

Go! Stage & Screen calendar: May 17-23

"Defying the Laws of Gravity With Henry the Juggler" - A "Super Saturday" event at the Kingston Library, 55 Franklin St., Kingston, 10:30 a.m. May 18.

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Mon May 13, 2013

Newsday

Bannerman Castle: Take a summer tour of the historic Hudson Valley attraction

A visitor to Pollepel Island photographs the crumbling remains of Bannerman Castle on the Hudson River near Newburgh.

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Thu May 09, 2013

Albany Times Union

A common hero

Times Union Staff photograph by Philip Kamrass -- Legendary folksinger Pete Seeger stands on a dock near old pilings for the former Newburgh Beacon ferry, with the Newburgh-Beacon bridge visible in the distance, on the Hudson River, during the Beacon Sloop Club Corn Festival in Beacon, NY Sunday August 11, 2002.

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Tue May 07, 2013

BroadwayWorld.com

BWW Reviews: Carissa Rodriguez 'La Collectionneuse' at Front Desk Apparatus

Annina Nosei once told me it is a great idea to open an art gallery across from a major Museum.

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Wed May 01, 2013

Hudson Valley Press

Marine Corps Pvt. Stephen E. Malon

Marine Corps Pvt. Stephen E. Malon, a 2010 graduate of Beacon High School, Beacon, NY, earned the title of United States Marine after graduating from recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, SC.

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Tue Apr 30, 2013

Times Herald-Record

Bannerman home might open for tours as restoration work on track

Visitors to Bannerman's Island soon could start getting an expanded look at how the Bannerman family spent its summers there.

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Poughkeepsie Journal

Bannerman Castle to be stabilized

If all goes as planned for the Bannerman Castle Trust, remaining corner towers of the Hudson River landmark south of Beacon will be stabilized in the coming months and an in-progress visitor center will open on the island.

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Mon Apr 29, 2013

Poughkeepsie Journal

Teenager charged in Beacon stabbing

A Glenham teenager has been charged in connection with an April 18 stabbing in Beacon.

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Sat Apr 27, 2013

Poughkeepsie Journal

In brief: 2 sentenced to state prison for Galleria shooting, robbery

Mathew Scannell, 25, of the City of Beacon, and Jeremy Herring, 25, of the City of Poughkeepsie, both pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery, a felony, in January.

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Fri Apr 26, 2013

Poughkeepsie Journal

Top picks

2 will be held in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Richard B. Fisher Center.

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Thu Apr 25, 2013

Psychology Today

My Day Behind Bars

It looked like something out of a nightmare-the Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, New York.

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Mon Apr 22, 2013

DNAinfo.com

New Committee Plans Future of Beacon High School Building

After months of delays, education and community leaders are beginning to plan the future of the Beacon High School building, which will be vacated by the fall of 2015 when the school moves to its new home in Midtown .

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