Author: Chris Fisher

To promote use of the trail by day hikers and local people, the Pawling Library offers birding backpacks for checkout. The backpacks are available to anyone to check out with their library card. Each backpack includes binoculars, books on wildlife, and maps of the local area. We hope that the backpacks will promote use of the Appalachian Trail by people near and far, who can come to enjoy the Trail as an invaluable resource. Thanks to the Harlem Valley Appalachian Trail Community for providing books and backpacks.

Nine years ago, the Pawling Library adopted the slogan Come Grow With Us. Over the years, we have been growing in tandem with the community to better reflect the needs and interests of Pawling residents. This November, the library will be asking citizens of Pawling for something that hasn’t been asked for in nearly a decade. The library is in need of additional dollars to offset our gradual rise in operating expenses and we are counting on Pawling voters to approve a small increase to the library’s municipal budget appropriation under Chapter 414 of New York State education law. What this means for the library is an ability to meet ever increasing community expectations by providing both physical and digital materials, programs and events, physical space, and computers that reflect Pawling’s current and future needs. The funds will also help us to keep pace with the inflationary costs of salaries and healthcare premiums. This November, we hope that the Pawling community will join the other sixteen of the nineteen towns in Dutchess County that have...

The Pawling Library belongs to the Pawling community, and we need your help figuring out how you use the library now and how you would like to use the library in the future. If there are services or materials you would like us to introduce or change we want to hear from you. We are looking for your views on the library at present and your great idea for what we can do next. Please take our brief Survey of Community Needs. It will help us improve our library services in the future. Your feedback is greatly appreciated! The survey can be access at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/thepawlinglibrary3 or tinyurl.com/pawlingsurvey 

We have received our first shipment of Federal Tax forms. All the forms we have are available for pickup. They are located on the shelf next to the public photocopier. The initial shipment included the 1040 form, 1040 instruction book, and 1040EZ form.

Even if you weren’t able to make the deadline to donate through Senator Murphy’s Fill the Truck program, it’s not too late to make donations in support of people affected by Hurricane Harvey. If you would like to make a monetary donation, you may wish to support one of the organizations that is a member of the Texas Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster:  https://txvoad.communityos.org/cms/node/104 The New York Times also published a helpful primer on Where to Donate to Harvey Victims (and How to Avoid Scams):  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/donate-harvey-charities-scams.html?mcubz=0