Library board divided over task force

For more than 2½ hours, the Tuesday night meeting of the Kennett Public Library Board covered a sweeping range of topics that included a review of the library’s new website, concerns about its Adult Literacy Program, and an upbeat update on efforts to purchase a building site for a new library in the borough. But strong divisions surfaced during discussion of one of the last…

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Two forums to solicit library input this week

More than a decade ago, stakeholders for the Kennett library recognized that the well-used Kennett Square institution had outgrown its space, but the path to building a new facility has proven daunting. Among the obstacles, the library board became a revolving door; Pocopson Township, one of the eight municipalities the library serves, stopped its financial support; Kennett Township, the library’s biggest funder, flirted with withholding…

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