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12-5-2025 Next weekend, Saturday, December 13th, is the final Art Attack of 2025. Reservation is available on our website or by calling the library and closes on Monday, December 8th. Miss Maria started Art Attack as part of our Summer Reading Program. She (and...
11-28-2025 Leave those Good Friday, Cyber Monday, I had time on Saturday gift purchases in the car. Our Wrap It Up! Event is just around the corner. People have been talking about it. I know because Marolyn Komperud over at the East Troy Family and Community Resource...
11-21-2025 Prairie Lakes Library System held its Tri-County Final Competition this past Saturday, November 15 at Yerkes Observatory and I was in it. I’ve written about the puzzle competition before both this year and the spring/summer of 2024 when it began. Each...
7-11-2025 The East Troy Lions Public Library will be discontinuing access to Hoopla on December 30, 2025. We began offering Hoopla in 2022 in response to the increased demand for digital content during the COVID 19 shutdown. Unfortunately, budget cycles make such...
11-7-2025 I can’t believe it’s November. On Sunday night I viewed a video of English comedian Michael McIntyre answering this frequently uttered statement. His response was, “Yes, you see we’ve had all the other months.” It was my first thought when on Monday a patron...
10-31-2025 The week is the halfway-ish point between two community engagement events with our architectural team from HGA (Hammel, Green and Abrahamson). On Wednesday, October 22nd we hosted a meeting with community leaders from businesses, nonprofits, banks, ETCSD,...
10-24-2025 The big news in the library world is the closing of the largest supplier of books to libraries in the country. No, it isn’t Amazon. Baker & Taylor, which was founded in 1828 has been struggling financially for some time. In the past ten years it has...
10-17-2025 For the month of October, the library is hosting a display of assistive technology supplied by Society’s Assets. Society Assets is a 501(c)3 Independent Living Center with locations in Racing, Kenosha, and Elkhorn. Their mission is to support all persons...