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Category Archives: Libraries
Step Three
The Library Development Committee (LDC), of which I am a member, and the Board of Trustees of the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor held the third of a projected twelve public forums this evening. I think of it as step three of a twelve step program to win back the public’s trust. It was a very contentious meeting. Some of the people there, who are apparently opposed to the two …
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Local Hero, Part I (With aplogies to Bill Forsyth)
You may know that a group of twenty-odd people worked for about a year, trying to figure out how the John Jermain Memorial Library could expand so as to offer more and better services to the community. This group was known as the Community Library Committee (CLC), and was appointed by the Library’s Board of Trustees, after the defeat of …
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Bad Manners
Most times living in a small town is great. Sometimes it’s not. Generally, local people like to point to the summer visitors as the source of all the bad behavior we see in these parts. All too often that turns out to be true, but the some-are people do not have a monopoly on bad behavior. We manage just fine on our own.
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Libraries Matter
December will bring the second anniversary of the resounding defeat of the proposed new library to be built near Mashashimuet Park. There’s been a lot going on since then, with people who care about libraries, architecture, historic preservation and Sag Harbor Village signing up for committees, having discussions, doing research, and writing reports. As you probably already know, all this …
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Safe Routes to…the Library?
My friend and fellow EETC and CAC (East End Transportation Council and Citizens Advisory Committee) member, Ken Dorph has been traveling hither and yon trying to stir up interest in a very fine program called Safe Routes to School, which is sponsored by the federal Department of Transportation. I promise to write about that program in more detail at a later date. However, I was reminded of it today when reading part of the final report of the Community Library Committee…
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