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Ms. Susan is ready for the next chapter PHOTO COURTESY OF SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY SOUTHWEST HARBOR — Without a clear idea of when her next opportunity will be to host an in-person tea party or to read aloud for Toddler Story Hour, children’s librarian Susan Plimpton has decided to retire after nearly a quarter of a century at the Southwest Harbor Public Library.   Known to most as Ms. Susan, Plimpton describes her start at the library as a happy surprise. Before beginning ...

BOARDMAN — When Kathy Street opened the new boxes at Boardman’s Oregon Trail Library, she said it felt like Christmas. The library, along with several others across Umatilla and Morrow counties, received hundreds of new books and thousands of face masks recently from Walmart Distribution Center in Hermiston. The occasion? So far as Street and Stanfield Library Director Cecili Longhorn could tell, there wasn’t one. “It was totally random,” Street, the director for the Or...

BOARDMAN — When Kathy Street opened the new boxes at Boardman’s Oregon Trail Library, she said it felt like Christmas.

Photo courtesy of the Mendon Public Library Local teen and active Girl Scout, Ivy Yates, has been working hard in 2020 and 2021 to complete her Girl Scout Gold Award. As part of her project, Ivy recently completed an amazing milk jug igloo that is available for admiring at the Mendon Public Library. Ivy collected, cleaned, stored, and assembled a huge number of milk jugs to create this igloo. Once she had enough, she began assembling the igloo at the library with some help from her family. When...

Library News The Two Harbors Public Library has a packed schedule of events for August. On Monday, August 6, The Two Harbors Public Library will be hosting two presenters on South Korea The first presenter is Molly Guiney, a local high school graduate (2012),... Written By: news@twoharborsmn.com | The Two Harbors Public Library has a packed schedule of events for August. On Monday, August 6, The Two Harbors Public Library will be hosting two presenters on South Korea The first prese...

Black History Month Reading Program Black History Month Reading Program By Andrea Robinson | February 2, 2021 at 6:02 PM CST - Updated February 2 at 6:07 PM LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) -Black History Month is here, and the Calcasieu Parish libraries are encouraging the community learn more by highlighting literature involving black history. The Black History Month Reading Program encourages all readers to pick a book and honor the black experience during the month of February. “Here at the ...

Reply Pictured (L-R): Paul Murphy, Head of Teen Services, Mahopac Public Library (MPL); Karen Kellogg, President of the Friends of MPL; Robin Hulmes, Sr. VP of PCSB Bank; Kelly Puccio, VP of PCSB Bank; and Michele Capozzella, Library Director, MPL. (Courtesy of PCSB Bank) Representatives from PCSB Bank, in Yorktown Heights, donated $1,500 to the Friends of Mahopac Public Library (MPL), to be used toward the Teen Library Council and Outreach Program and the Teen Summer Reading Program. PCSB Ban...

In the booklet “2011 A Year to Celebrate” written by Kathy Bond, she describes the beginning of the Ulysses Philomathic Library (UPL) from its shaky start in 1811. Abner Treman decided to start a lending library and the first organizational meeting was held in Snell’s Tavern. A Board of Trustees was established and Herman Camp became the first librarian. His store on the corner of Union and Main housed the library which contained 232 books, a large quantity for that time. However...

Thursday, January 21, 2021 July After hours of planning and lots of hard work, Jayden Spenner of Remsen completed his Eagle Scout project, a flag retirement box located by the VFW Hall in Remsen. Spenner is the eighteen-year-old son of Jeff and Lori Spenner of Remsen. He has three siblings, Olivia (13), Rylie (12), and Faith (10). His hobbies include hunting, archery, camping, boating, and scuba diving. He recently graduated from MMCRU High School on May 17, 2020. He currently works for CMG Con...

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