Given Tufts News Today

Having just moved toward designing an expanded Given Memorial Library, Pinehurst has encountered a curveball in the form of the National Park Service’s recent study of its historic landmark district.

Pinehurst officially took ownership of Given Memorial Library and Tufts Archives on Monday, giving Moore County’s largest municipality its first government-run library.

Pinehurst might not be getting a new library any time soon, but a new lease on life is in the works for its current one now that the village has agreed to take on the ownership and management of Given Memorial Library and the Tufts Archives. Village leaders met jointly with directors of the Given Tufts organization at Village Hall on Monday afternoon to announce that they’re working toward an agreement for the library building, and all collections and furnishings, to be donated to Pinehurs...