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St. Clairsville Public Library Assistant Director Sarah Stefanovski presents a newly donated telescope the library will soon be loaning out to patrons interested in stargazing.
The St. Clairsville Public Library is launching a new program to give patrons a closer look at the heavens.
Assistant Director Sarah Stefanovski is organizing the program.
“A few months back, we were reached out to by two gentlemen. They were interested in donating a telescope to us. It is actually a nationwide program called Library Telescope,” she said.
Dave Holden of the Oglebay Astronomy Club was the donor. The program provides an Orion StarBlast Astronomical Telescope for libraries to loan to patrons.
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Mar 10, 2021
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SHOWN HERE are some of the 300 free COVID-19 at-home testing kits available at the St. Clairsville Public Library.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE–The St. Clairsville Public Library now has free COVID-19 at-home testing kits available for pick-up.
The Ohio Department of Health purchased 2 million at-home, self-administered COVID-19 testing kits that provide reliable results in minutes. Gov. Mike DeWine’s goal is to make these rapid testing kits available and accessible in every Ohio county, and Ohio’s public libraries have been asked to play a critical role.
The library has received an initial request of 300 kits. These tests are self-administered, and people can keep them to use as needed. The testing kit works with an app that will show green for negative test results. The green test verification can be used in different scenarios such as students returning to college, work requirements or during travel. The negative results verification is good for seven d