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Carolyn Bennett Glauda
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Librarian and parent with adult-onset jock syndrome. Here for all things Hudson Valley and Beacon.
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The kids are at play practice, so I’m listening in on @pkryan.bsky.social’s town hall while squeezing in a workout. Workshopping a name for this activity: Democracy and Dumbells? Sweating to the Oligarchs? Deadlifting with Democrats? Civics is Swole? Seeking Progressive Gainz?
Image of a basement gym with rubber floor, a bench and dumbbells. In the foreground, there is alaptop on a stool. It is open to Zoom and the town hall meeting with Pat Ryan.
April 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Sunday selfie on the bus! I hopped the loop to get some coffee at Trax and walked the length of Main Street to the farmer’s market. Now me and my pot pies are on the way back home again.
A selfie of me on the bus. I am a white woman wearing a tan Beacon baseball hat. I am wearing a red raincoat and there is a brown paper bag on the seat next to me.
March 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Just talked to a federal worker, he’s still employed, but the future is uncertain. Because of his work, dams don’t break and towns don’t get flooded.
Many federal jobs seem like they’re just Desmond pushing a button every 108 minutes. Collectively, these roles are vital for preventing catastrophe.
An image from the tv show Lost. A finger pushes a button marked “execute” on a keyboard.
March 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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How lucky are we to have a competent comptroller in Dutchess County! www.dutchessny.gov/Departments/...
Words on graph paper background DAN AYMAR-BLAIR DUTCHESS COMPTROLLER More than 10% of Dutchess County's spending come from federal dollars. • In 2023, Dutchess county spent $65 million in federal funds. • Federal dollars support core County functions: adoption and foster care, emergency and disaster preparedness, worktorce investment, child support enforcement, home energy assistance, buses, roads, sidewalks, and more. Dutchess County residents benefit from over $1.9 BILLION in direct tederal assistance, such as Medicare, Vedicaid, and Social Security.
March 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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When the news is bad, nature can help. The falls at Madame Brett Park are an accessible hidden gem if you come down this way!
A rambling waterfall on an overcast day. The trees have no leaves yet. The image is a long exposure, smoothing out the movement of the water.
March 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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What I’m up to on Friday is keeping my wallet away all day. Hope you can join in!
A light teal background with illustrated rabbit painted red with black accents. Text in handwriting: Economic boycott! Don’t buy stuff Friday Feb 28. We have power. No Amazon Walmart Target Fast Food Gas. OK Small Business. Pay Cash.
February 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Me, not eagerly anticipating the moment these ice-covered limbs and wires meet tonight’s high winds.
Good things I have done all that research on generators. Better if I had actually purchased one, though.
Icy trees and power lines touching each other near the street.
February 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Previewing a little something I have in the works.
Black & white photo. A white woman (who is me) standing in front of a tile wall. In her hand with dark nail polish, she holds a mug that says “local politics nerd.” The smile in her eyes says “oh shit, I’m running for city council.”
February 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Library Freedom Project shared this link to the GoFundMe pages of over 800 Black families displaced by the California fires. I picked a few at random and donated what I could. I hope you can do the same.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The image is from www.gofundme.com/f/help-rosem...
A picture from the street. There is a bare tree in the foreground with a burning building in the background. There is a driveway, and behind it are the ashes of what was once a home.
January 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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In light of current events, one of the most moving things at dia:Beacon was the sign by the bathroom.
“We recognize that gender is a spectrum. Please use the bathroom you prefer.” These words are written in gray on a white wall.
January 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Greetings from atop smug mountain.
From know your meme: dgmental Volturi is an image macro series based on a frame from the 2009 horror romance film The Twilight Saga: New Moon. In the image, the vampire characters Aro, Caius and Marcus, wearing gothic-style aristocratic garb, stand atop a marble balcony. The additional text says “Me not affected by the TikTok ban because I never even downloaded the app.”
January 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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In excitement for season 2 of Severance, I went on a little location walk this morning. The dummy light and the Beacon building are from today, and the Main St shot was the only one I took during production in March 2021. Why didn’t I take more?
The famous Beacon, NY dummy light at the intersection of Main and E. Main. The light is a stationary traffic light on a yellow pedestal. The red light is flashing. A sign on the pedestal says “keep right” and has an arrow. Despite the sign and the yellow paint, cars frequently hit the structure. A modernist- style building made of brick with four concrete pillars and a flat roof. The sign says “Beacon Building.” There is an obelisk in a courtyard in front of the building and a round cement pad that is currently empty. During the filming of Severance, there was a statue of Kier on this slab. A photo of Main Street from March 2021. The sign on one of the stores was replaced with a production sign that says “The Kier Chronicle Your trusted source for goings-on in Kier and the greater world.”
January 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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The waiting room of the doctor that is world-renowned for taking your insurance.
Three dark brown wooden chairs with ripped and worn upholstery sit up against a stained beige wall. They cover a power outlet. A picture hangs above the chairs. It is a triptych of pink daisies on a blue background. The entire thing is hopelessly faded. It is in a glass frame which has the glare of a fluorescent light bulb in the reflection.
January 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Such a small problem in a sea of crap, but I would truly love to see the bus stop signs updated with some timetables.
And if maybe one more vehicle would read the sign and stop idling, the planet could be a little less on fire. #BeaconCityBus
January 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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My Garmin woke me up ready to celebrate.
A smartwatch on my wrist with a lit up display of balloons in the background. The text: 27° 33/24 Happy birthday! 6:03 Sat 11
January 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Nice work! I earned one, too!
January 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Not as on the nose as a cybertuck on fire, but my take of the state of things today.
A green garbage truck parked across 5th avenue from Trump Tower in NYC.
January 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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It was a beautiful day down at the Hudson River. The kids threw more than their fair share of broken brick pieces on to the icy water. (The adults did, too…)
The silhouette of three people standing at the edge of an embankment in front of the Hudson River. The image is framed by two trees and lit by a late afternoon sun. The mountains in the background are misty with light fog and clouds.
December 30, 2024 at 11:04 AM
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I picked this up on vacation in July so I could follow along with the 99% Invisible book club. My goal was to finish before the year’s end and now here we are!
I need a change of pace. Anyone have a recommendation for some nice lite fiction? Maybe a pamphlet?
A paperback copy of The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro with a black mug on top. The mug, from the New York Historical Society, says “I Finished The Power Broker.”
December 28, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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I just spent one hour and 45 minutes on the phone with Mohela fixing a mistake they made with my student loans. (That also should have been forgiven by now!) The folks on the other end of the phone were lovely, but this system is deeply broken.
December 20, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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Spotted in the Newburgh Target: a monster truck with a “protect wild dolphins” Florida plate. My brother in Christ, the emissions you let out on the drive here just killed an entire pod.
The tailgate of a gray Dodge Ram truck. The plates from Florida have an illustration of a dolphin and say “protect wild dolphins.” Not pictured, but the front grill of this truck came up to my head and I’m 5 foot 6.
December 4, 2024 at 1:48 AM
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I finally reached page 1,000 of The Power Broker. Please clap.
A copy of The Power Broker by Robert Caro. It is lying flat on a stool and open to pages 1000-1001. There’s a lot of words in tiny print on those two pages.
November 27, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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George Washington’s head is in a new location where he faces the East. This way he can watch the sunrise and wonder if today is the day democracy will work.
The back side of a monument facing sunrise. The monument is George Washington’s bust on a pedestal at the intersection of two streets. Mount Beacon is in the distance.
November 23, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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Good morning, Beacon! Guess who is regretting the choice to keep the patio furniture out for “one more weekend.”
Schools are on a two hour delay, I will use that time to find the shovels.
Patio furniture covered in an inch of wet snow, illuminated by the porch light
November 22, 2024 at 10:20 AM