Chip Rowe

Fled before previous hearing in child-porn case A former Stonecrop Gardens employee accused of secretly filming girls as they used the public restroom pleaded guilty on June 15 to one count of receiving and distributing child pornography and two counts of possession of child pornography. John Towers, 56, who had been free on bail since his arrest in April 2024, failed to appear at a court hearing on May 27 at which he was scheduled to plead guilty, prosecutors said.

Editor’s note: Beacon was created in 1913 from Matteawan and Fishkill Landing. William Coggswell was charged with beating his brother, James, with a club at James’ saloon on Main Street in Fishkill Landing. John Oderman, the cornet player for a brass band, badly injured his arm at the fulling mill inside a Glenham factory. Burglars carefully removed a light to reach inside a display at a hotel near the railroad depot and stole $20 [about $625 today] worth of liquor and cigars.

TRACK AND FIELD— Brevin Timm won the Class B state title in the pentathlon on June 14 at Webster, near Rochester, with 3,088 points, the first state champion for the Bulldogs since Rayvon Grey won the long jump in 2016. Timm was 11th overall of 40 competitors.