Hadley Luzerne Public Library

The Writer’s Guild is held on Tuesdays and Thursdays after school from November through March. The program has a different theme each month, covering topics such as creative writing, poetry, journalism, writing song lyrics, creating illustrations, and tall tales, while weaving in Transcendentalism into all. Each month the students host a “Coffeehouse” to celebrate by reading their work to family and the general public. Meetings are held at the Hadley-Luzerne Public Library. Please come shortly before 7:00 or use the side door.

We have a story time every Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. This program is for Toddlers and their care-givers. All are welcome, just drop in.

Hi,
I attended the Warren County Board of Supervisors Meeting. It looks like the funding will get cut to $25,000. The decision has not been made yet. I was impressed. At the beginning of the meeting, public comments were allowed. Only four people (myself included) got up to speak. Each one wanted to talk about the library book aid and why it is important to them. So out of a multi-million dollar budget, we have people ready to speak up about $25,000 being cut for libraries. Maybe that is because libraries have trimmed the fat a long time ago. Any cuts really hurt us, we don’t have another pocket to go to.
Gene Merlino did tell me that he got a lot of emails and phone calls about not cutting library book aid. You all did a good job there. It would not hurt to call him one more time and say thanks. If you would like to help even more, you could call Frederick Monroe, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors at 761-6536. While he doesn’t MAKE the decision, his opinion counts. Thank you. You all did good with phone calls and emails, thank you.

The library will be closed on Veteran’s Day!! A BIG THANK YOU to our troops and to the people who support them.

Hi All,
On Tuesday Nov 10th the Warren County Board of Supervisors meets. They will be talking about book aid funding all libraries in Warren County. So far this funding has gone from $53,000 to $50,000 a year. Now they are talking about reducing that to $25,000 or even lower.
The amount each library gets is based on circulation. Crandall gets $30,000. We get about $2,500.00. Every other library in Warren county gets money as well. Even tho Crandall gets $30,000 the books they buy are available free to us through inter-library loan.
What can you do? Please call Gene Merlino at the town hall 696-2713. Just let him know you are concerned about funding for library book aid. One book goes out an average of 12 times (some a lot more). It is a good value for the money. Please be nice to Gene. The Town of Lake Luzerne and Gene are very supportive of the library.

Our craft group meets this Thursday from 12-3:00. Everyone is welcome. Bring whatever you are working on. It is a good time to set aside to finish up those almost done projects. Come when you can and leave when you have to.

My Summer on the Appalachian Trail”
Lecture and Slide Presentation

By Steve Mackey
Thursday, October 22
 7:00 p.m.
 Hadley-Luzerne Public Library Community Room
The Appalachian Trail (A.T.) is more than 2,175-mile long footpath stretching through 14 eastern states from Maine to Georgia. Conceived in 1921 and first completed in 1937, it traverses the wild, scenic, wooded, pastoral, and culturally significant lands of the Appalachian Mountains. 

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The book of the month is Issac’s Storm by Erik Larson. Narrator Edward Herrmann brings an eerie calm to this powerful chronicle of the deadliest storm ever to hit the United States–a huge and terribly destructive hurricane that struck land near Galveston, Texas in September of 1900. Author Erik Larson re-creates the events leading up to the disaster in astonishing detail, tracing the thoughts and actions of Isaac Cline, a scientist with America’s burgeoning U.S. Weather Bureau.
This book will be discussed on November 10th.  Get yours today!

Our board meetings are the third Tuesday of every month at 7:00 pm.  They are held here at the library.  The front door of the library is locked when we close at 7:00 so please arrive a little early.  If you arrive later please knock loudly on the side door by the ramp.

On Tuesday, our guest speaker will be  Gordon Batcheller, Wildlife Biologist and Section Head of the New York State Bureau of Wildlife in DEC.   Mr. Batcheller is stationed in the Albany headquarters of DEC.  He is responsible for the game species management of the Eastern Coyote,  a relatively new but often misunderstood member of New York’s wildlife community.
The library front door is closed and locked at 7:00, please arrive a little bit early.

Program funding is provided by the Town of Lake Luzerne and Warren County.