Caryn Self Sullivan, PhD

10/29/2025

I served on Colonial Beach's Town Council from 2021 through 2024. I chose NOT to run for re-election in 2024. However, I continue to serve my community through volunteerism with non-profit organizations dedicated to economic vitality, environmental vitality, animal welfare, racial justice & equality, and organizations that support students and seniors. This contact information for this page has been deleted because my Town Phone and Town Email no longer function. This page will be archived in January 2026...one year after my term ended.

If you want to stay in touch, please send a Friend Request to me or follow me on my business pages Ask Dr. Caryn and Beach Paws Boutique.

Downtown Colonial Beach, Colonial Beach Chamber of Commerce, Colonial Beach Humane Society, Colonial Beach Rivah Dogs, Alliance of Colonial Beach Community Organizations, Coming To The Table CBVA, Virginia Osprey Foundation, INC, BAMM: Beach Arts Music & Mentoring, , Visit CBVA Colonial Beach Virginia

12/31/2024

A Poem for New Year’s Eve

Good Riddance, But Now What?
By Ogden Nash

Come, children, gather round my knee;
Something is about to be.
Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark! It’s midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year.

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At the local level, decisions should made based on what is best for the Town of Colonial Beach, our residents, businesses, property owners, and neighbors in the 4th District...without regard to national and state politics. No matter which party our representatives belong to, we must have their support to solve the problems in our community.

Thank you, Mayor Robin Schick for Colonial Beach, VA, for working well with our Virginia representatives and our congressional leaders. You have been an impressive "Face of Colonial Beach" at state and federal levels. Keep up the good work!

Serving Colonial Beach as Councilwoman for the past 4 years has been an honor and pleasure. I shall continue to work for progress as an ordinary citizen, while fighting to maintain our 'small-townness.'

I'm archiving this page with this final thought...an excerpt from Ogden Nash’s poem “The Politician”:

Behold the politician.
Self-preservation is his ambition.
He thrives in the D. of C.
Where he was sent by you and me.
He has many profitable hobbies
Not the least of which is lobbies.
He would not sell his grandmother for a quarter…
If he suspected the presence of a reporter.
He gains votes ever and anew
By taking money from everybody and giving it to a few
While explaining that every penny
Was extracted from the few to be given to the many.
…
Some politicians are Republican, some Democratic,
And their feud is dramatic,
But except for the name
They are identically the same.

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Why include a light-hearted versifier like Ogden Nash in our resistance history review? There was a deeper side to a man whose poems were considered throw-away verse during their time. Those who ca…

12/26/2024

Colonial Beach Town Council has members whose service is coming to an end: Dr. Caryn Self Sullivan, Vicki Roberson, and Krista Brown. Replacements will be taking over their seats when

12/17/2024

Please join me at Town Hall tomorrow night for our Regular Meeting. It will be the last meeting for Vicki Roberson, Krista Brown and I. It’s been an honor and a privilege to serve the Town of Colonial Beach. I will be archiving this FB Page on December 31st, 2024. But you can follow me on Ask Dr. Caryn, Beach Paws Boutique, Colonial Beach Historical Society and Museum, Colonial Beach Rivah Dogs, Colonial Beach Humane Society, Coming To The Table CBVA, WWER, and Friends of Eleanor Park.

11/14/2024

Extended Holiday for CB Public Schools Students and Staff!

On November 13, 2024, the School Board approved an extension of Thanksgiving Break. In addition to the previously scheduled break, students and staff will now have Monday, November 25, and Tuesday, November 26, 2024, off. As a result, the entire week of November 25-29, 2024 will be a break for students and staff.
Schools and district offices will reopen on Monday, December 2, 2024.