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DAYTON — Committees tasked with condensing into 250-word statements their arguments for and against dissolving the Columbia County Rural Library District have completed their work.

Residents of a town in Washington will vote on whether to shut their local library rather than allow it to offer a book about trans people. 

Voters will decide whether to shutter one Washington county's only library after staff refused to remove books on race, LGBTQ and sexual topics that some community members objected to.

Voters in a rural Washington county will decide whether to shut down their only library following a yearlong fight over controversial books in the young adult section.

This story was originally published by Crosscut. As libraries throughout the country face increasing calls to ban young adult books that cover race and

A dispute over young adult books about race, gender and sexuality has landed a measure on the November ballot that could shutter Columbia Countys only library.

A dispute over young adult books about race, gender and sexuality has landed a measure on the November ballot that could shutter Columbia Countys only library.

A dispute over young adult books about race, gender and sexuality has landed a measure on the November ballot that could shutter Columbia Countys only library.

Young adult nonfiction books and books about consent and sexual education for younger readers will find new homes at Dayton Memorial Library.

Columbia County and Dayton residents turned out in force at the first meeting of the rural library district’s board since the library’s director resigned and a petition to dissolve the