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This is Beacon · August 18, 2026
Ep. 125 | Untitled: The $10 Million Community Center Question
Former Beacon mayor Randy Casale on why the city still has no community center — including the $10 million Hammond Field plan that state boards turned down three years running — and the concrete steps he thinks the collective should take next: FOIL the 2013–2015 architectural plans, then lock down protected land and maintenance funding before anyone breaks ground.
Listen at This is Beacon ↗ (opens in a new tab)The Highlands Current · May 29, 2026
Big Visions, Limited Resources
Jeff Simms covers the City Council’s debate over five years of capital spending, in which the collective is named among the voices pressing Beacon to prioritize a community center — a facility in the spirit of the Martin Luther King Cultural Center and the Beacon Community Resource Center.
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