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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