Extreme Community Quilt Underway!

Saturday Morning, after speaking with Christelle Lachapelle, and then Billy Roberts, Design Producer for Extreme Homemakeover at Voluntown for the Girard Family Extreme Makeover, I initiated an effort for an extreme community quilt for the Girard Family. I was given the go ahead by Mr. Roberts after being given a color scheme for a bedroom, [...]

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Walk in Holiday Crafts for Kids – TODAY!

This is it folks, one of the busiest and most popular program that our library offers: Walk in Christmas Crafts for kids – ages 5 and up. (If you have a younger child, they may attend providing you give them your full attention and assistance). It is happening today, December 2, at Voluntown Public Library [...]

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Summer Reading Closing Party – The Day the Library Went Wild featuring Jay Mankita

Summer Reading closed with a fabulous party – refreshments, prizes and great entertainment by Jay Mankita performing The Day the Library Went Wild.
It was awesome. Not only did Jay share some wonderful tunes, great guitar, entertaining lyrics ( hmm, a twist of some old favorites, cleverly disguised!), and a remarkable Voyager fueled in part by [...]

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TV (Teen Volunteer) Jam and Appreciation Bash Success!

A few weeks ago, local teen group “Sonnie” performed for the end of summer TV jam and appreciation bash. It was a loud and wonderful time at the library that rocked the books, the staff and patrons. Teens enjoyed music, refreshments (pizza, soft drinks, cookies) and each other’s company as well as received prizes for [...]

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Summer Reading draws to a close

It seems I just wrote about the start of summer reading, when BAM! here it is, the end again. It has been a whopping success! 77 children completed the program reading a GRAND TOTAL of 2,124 books read with each youngster reading anywhere from 1 to 176 books! 30 children were read to in the read-to-me program at [...]

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