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Among the weeks headlines: concerns that defund the library may become the new front in the book banning wars; the Texas Senate passes its school library bill; librarians in Illinois weigh in on the states proposal to defend the freedom to read; and ALA launches a new initiative to combat book bans.

The Mamaroneck Public Library is probing irregularities in its finances.

Ellen Freeman, from the University of Suffolk in Ipswich, secured a writer’s residency with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Ellen Freeman, from the University of Suffolk in Ipswich, secured a writer’s residency with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Scholar, artist, and curator Royce K. Young Wolf will help steward Yale’s collections of art and artifacts relating to the Indigenous peoples of North America.

Falls Township Supervisors have granted liquor sale privileges to the under-construction Wawa at 530 Lincoln Highway.

Ellen Freeman immigrated from Odesa, Ukraine, to Pittsburgh almost 30 years ago. And although her family always planned to leave—she grew up learning various languages so that she could communicate wherever they settled—moving to the United States as a young single mother was one of the most difficult things that she has ever done.

War's continuance brings calls for recognition, reform and kindness.

When: Manheim Township Commissioners meeting on July 25. Commissioner Mary Jo Huyard was absent.

When: Manheim Township commissioners meeting, June 27.