The prints have arrived and been framed for the three photo contest winners, GIVE US YOUR BEST SHOT, 2025, an FMPL activity. It is great to see beautiful summer images as we are headed in that direction after winter solstice. Congratulations again to Stephanie Diermeier, Cathy Krull and Addie Jaykowski. (left to right as arranged […]
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We just added a brand new book to our library about Dolly Parton and it was a good reminder of all the great work she has done to promote literacy! She started her IMAGINATION LIBRARY in 1995. With leadership from Empowered Tutoring, the 54165 zip code became eligible for Dolly’s program. Children are signed up
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We had the honor of hosting Thomas Nelson on December 6, 2025 to speak about his new book WRECKED: THE EDMUND FITZGERALD AND THE SINKING OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY. He opened with a poignant story about being a child and seeing a lifeboat from the tragedy at a museum. He immediately had a visceral response
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Introducing Kristin Mielke who is our public health nurse for Outagamie County Health and Human Services. She reached out to me to set up a meeting. I gave her a tour of our library, and she dropped off items that will be distributed here at the library. Among the things that she dropped off were
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We are so blessed to have Shari Liesch lead programming at our library in the spring and in the fall annually. On November 12, 2025, she led a fabulous program about story quilting. She puts her “all” into her presentations with lots of research and creative thought processes. We had hands-on learning at this workshop
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