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Beacon, New York Patch AM: a 4 min read

Hello Beacon! Stay connected with the latest updates from around town. Let's dive in! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • How will Beacon’s new graduation rules change your student’s path?
  • How 1800s Beacon camp meetings shaped today’s neighborhood block parties

Also on today's calendar: Giant Hudson Valley Moon Festival: Free Admission! and 4 more events.

Today's riddle: Why did the chicken go to the gym? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Sunshine and humid, with a high of 83 and low of 60 degrees.
  • Saturday: Mostly sunny and less humid, temps: high: 79, low: 59.
  • Sunday: Mostly sunny and beautiful, with a high of 74 and low of 51 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Changes Coming to Public Schools (highlandscurrent.org) — Beacon families will see major changes in local public schools, including new financial literacy classes for ninth graders and expanded climate education integrated into science courses. Beacon administrators describe how these state-mandated curriculum and graduation reforms, including new competency-based credits and alternatives to Regents exams, will shape what students must know and demonstrate before they can graduate.
   

• Fellowship across the seasons (timeshudsonvalley.com) — A longtime Newburgh resident reflects on neighborhood block parties and traces how late-summer gatherings around Newburgh Bay once included fairs and religious camp meetings in Fishkill Landing, now Beacon. She highlights James Brown’s 19th-century gardening at Mount Gulian in today’s Beacon and encourages readers to see how those historic traditions of fellowship still echo in modern neighborhood get-togethers.
   

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: He was working on his pecks (pecs). (Thank you W F C. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Beacon

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