Beacon News

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

"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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 .