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With food prices rising so dramatically, it might be the time to consider growing some of your own vegetables in containers or buckets.  Even a small balcony or deck can give you a big harvest!  Many people do not have big yards or may be to frail to have traditional gardens, but that does not mean that they can’t have a salad garden in buckets right out their back door.

There are a few things to learn about growing plants in buckets or any other containers.  The containers must be...

2021 saw the Library continuing to provide service during pandemic lockdowns. The Library was closed to the public and only able to provide contactless pickup service and limited computer services for five months in the first half of 2021. On June 30, 2021, the library opened fully to the public and has been open continuously since then.

Although there were no scheduled in-person programs in 2021, the Library did host some virtual programming events, and had many take-away craft and activity bag...

(From February 1 to April 30, 2022) 

• State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
• The Paris Detective by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo
• Nothing to Lose by J. A. Jance
• Never by Ken Follett
• Find Me by Alafair Burke
• Diablo Mesa by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
• Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower by Charlie Angus
• The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
• Abandoned In Death by J.D. Robb
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• Think Of Me by Frances...

According to Wikipedia:

Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection.  First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EarthDay.org including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries.  The official theme for 2022 is Invest in Our Planet.

Even though Earth Day has passed, there is so much going on in the world today…..a global pandemic that has been ongoing for more than two years now, war (the...

April 28^th is the publishing anniversary of Nancy Drew and the Secret of the Old Clock. The series debuted in 1930 and has influenced young girls and women for over 90 years. For those unfamiliar with Nancy Drew, she’s a young woman who finds herself drawn into mysteries that she and her friends Bess and George are good at solving, often resulting in danger to themselves.

I was delighted when a girl came into the library recently and told me how much she enjoyed Nancy Drew books. She’s reading...