🌱 How FDR’s Hyde Park estate figured into a future cardinal’s rise
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- How FDR’s Hyde Park estate figured into a future cardinal’s rise
Today's riddle: Why does a cow wear a bell ? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Tuesday: Record-tying temperatures, with a high of 96 and low of 70 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
- Wednesday: An afternoon thunderstorm, temps: high: 92, low: 47.
- Thursday: Partly sunny and cooler, with a high of 68 and low of 43 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Cardinal Francis Spellman: A dramatic rise to the top (catholiccourier.com) — Hyde Park appears here as the site of Franklin Roosevelt’s estate, where Bishop Spellman arranged a key meeting between the future Pope Pius XII and the president. The article then traces Cardinal Francis Spellman’s rise from Boston priest to influential New York archbishop and cardinal, highlighting his wartime diplomacy, political connections, and role in shaping American Catholicism. 
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2026 Budget Vote and Board of Education Election
Arlington Central School District 144 Todd Hill Road, LaGrangeville, NY 12540
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Tuesday May 19
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- Abilities First, Inc. posted a job opening for Preschool Special Education Teacher - Hyde Park Education Center, UPK Program in Hyde Park. Apply here.
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🗞 Nearby News
Arlington
- Vote for the Poughkeepsie Journal Girls Athlete of Week for May 11-17 (poughkeepsiejournal.com)
Poughkeepsie
- Stephen Masten Wins $1 Million Powerball Prize in Poughkeepsie, NY (hudsonvalleypost.com)
- Poughkeepsie got $9.7 million in state funding for 10 city projects (poughkeepsiejournal.com)
- What is This Former 'Friends' Star Doing in Poughkeepsie? (wpdh.com)
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Because its horns doesn't work! (Thank you Gary M. for sending it in!)
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