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March 2010 News (11)

Volunteers Needed for CCC at Beacon Barks

The Community Cat Coalition is thrilled to be participating in this year's Beacon Barks parade on Saturday, April 24 from 11AM to 3PM. As part of the event, we will have a table with all sorts of goodies and marchers in the parade. Thus, your help is needed to make our presence known.

Table Sitters

Volunteers are needed to table sit in 2-hour… Continue

Added by Nicole Ganas on March 29, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Wee Play Community Project's 6th Annual "Ree-Play" Sale! April 30 - May 1, University Settlement Theatre, Beacon

The 6th Annual

Friday, April 30 & Saturday, May 1, 2010

9:00 am - 1:00 pm

University Settlement Park…

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Added by Kelly Ellenwood on March 29, 2010 at 10:24am — No Comments

enjoy stony kill farm while you still can :-(

Stony Kill Farm Environmental Education Center staff awaits closure…

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Added by Ben Royce on March 27, 2010 at 4:32pm — 3 Comments

Denning's Point Musings 7 (con't)

Denning’s Point Musings 7

Historic Winters on Denning’s Point (continued)

With the Denning’s Point trails closed for the winter to protect the American Bald Eagle foraging, perching and roosting habitat, I have been pondering what changes people living on the Point would have experienced during this season over the past 6,000 years. The present winter-time closing takes the high road of environmental conservation … but what about the other years? Let’s pass a…

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Added by Jim Heron on March 21, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments

What Happened...

To the pub crawl???

Added by Jay Roberts on March 14, 2010 at 7:39pm — No Comments

Prepare for Rain Event this Weekend

According to the National Weather Service in Albany, Dutchess County is expected to be impacted by heavy rains forecasted to begin later today. Rain fall is expected to be steady throughout the overnight hours into Sunday. Heaviest rain is expected during the late afternoon and Saturday overnight. The storm

has the potential to produce in excess of 2 inches of rain and should

move out of the area by Sunday afternoon.

“We are advising…

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Added by Lani on March 12, 2010 at 5:22pm — No Comments

PRESS RELEASE – PUB CRAWL

The City of Beacon is taking every precaution possible to be sure that this year’s pub crawl does not result in the same disruptive behavior as did last year’s event. This event has been getting progressively larger and last year’s disturbance was the culmination of the out of control behavior that has marked this event…

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Added by Steve Gold on March 8, 2010 at 4:18pm — 5 Comments

PoJo looking for freelance reporters in Beacon

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20100308/NEWS01/100301020/Journal-seeks-freelance-reporters

I think the T.O.D. deserves a write up in PoJo. Someone who can neutrally sum up the positions for and against it. And they can make a little cash for the effort.

Added by Ben Royce on March 8, 2010 at 11:53am — 2 Comments

Denning's Point Musing 6

Denning’s Point Musings 6

Historic Winters on Denning’s Point (continued)

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Added by Jim Heron on March 4, 2010 at 11:14am — No Comments

Google Broadband

Interesting.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html

I've read a little about this over the last couple of days.

Discuss.

Added by Alan Flynn on March 3, 2010 at 10:43pm — 6 Comments

CityArts March Meeting Canceled

The regular CityArts meeting for March will be canceled due to the storm this past weekend. The next CityArts meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 7 at the Beacon Institute on Main Street.

Added by Cabot Parsons on March 1, 2010 at 6:04pm — No Comments