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Cost of Doing Business

Cost of Doing Business

3-13-2026 The ETLPL Board and East Troy Village Board have both voted to hire JT Library Planning for the next stage in our progress toward a new library. Technically speaking the Village Board only voted to release Impact Fees. These are fees paid by developers to...

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Holds – Making Them Shorter

Holds – Making Them Shorter

3-6-2026 When library staff gets to talking the Library of Things (LoT) grows. The latest additions include a radon detector, Pampered Chef Easy Accent Decorator, and several bundles of stamps for card making. Let’s begin with the newly purchased item: the radon...

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Cereal & Cartoons at the Library

Cereal & Cartoons at the Library

2-27-2026 Join us in celebrating National Cereal Day on Monday, March 9th at 1:00pm. School is out, the boxes will be new and the milk will be cold. Miss Maria is pairing a (delayed) celebration of National Cereal Day with a true childhood pastime, Saturday morning...

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Happy Anniversary to Me

Happy Anniversary to Me

2-20-2026 This is the end of my fourth year as ETLPL’s Director. Monday marks my official anniversary date (and my birthday). It’s fair to say, the staff and I have instituted quite a few changes in that time. After surviving my first Summer Reading Program, coming...

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Letting It Go at the Library

Letting It Go at the Library

2-13-2026 The weather has taken a delightful turn; however, at the library we are hoping at least a trace of snow will remain for our Frozen Party on Thursday, February 19th at 1:00-2:30. Miss Maria’s plans for the February ETCSD’s inservice day is much more in line...

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Name that Whale

Name that Whale

2-6-2026 Residents of Walworth, Rock, and Racine Counties have six opportunities this spring to have a Whale of a good time. Kate Davis, of PLLS and Spice Club fame, has organized a cooperative program involving a life-size 56-foot, inflatable grey whale. Inside is a...

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Spice and Everything Nice at the Library

Spice and Everything Nice at the Library

1-30-2026 The library has never smelled better than it did on January 13th, the day the spices arrived for one of our February programs. Kate Davis, Programming Consultant for PLLS, has organized a Spice Club program for interested libraries. For the record, ETLPL was...

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PLLS Grant for Reading Program

PLLS Grant for Reading Program

1-23-2026 Thank you to Prairie Lakes Library System for the $200 grant for our 1000 Books B4 Kindergarten program. I have vague memories of the program beginning back in the days when I was a ETLPL Board Trustee for the ETCSD and Alison Senkevitch was the library...

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