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By Benjamin Cox on July 26, 2021 at 4:38pm
The Brown County Public Library is off to a successful start but needs donations to reach its ultimate goal.
The “Meet Me At the Library” fundraising campaign kicked off three weeks ago in hopes of meeting a $2 million matching grant to build a new library just off the square in Mt. Sterling.
Library Director Richard Young says the current space has become extremely limited on capacity and space. He says the ad campaign has raised approximately a quarter of a million dollars since its beginning. He says he’s currently awaiting word on a state library construction grant that was applied for earlier this year that would go towards meeting the $2 million match. In all, he hopes that donors and matching grant can meet a $5.4 million goal to build the new facility.
Brian from Fitchburg, WI
There are early references to the Packers starting in 1918. Why haven t you bought in?
Glad you asked. And not only are you correct about those early references to 1918, but the person who wrote them was George Whitney Calhoun, co-founder of the Packers. Obviously, what he had to say can t be dismissed with anything less than overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Thus, I m guessing that I ve spent upwards of 100 hours, maybe double that, researching the subject. After all, what s more historically important for the Packers than getting our birth date and age right? Anyway, I ll try to condense my volumes of research on this subject to an answer of reasonable length and let you draw your conclusions.
Libraries share in state allocation
Darren Iozia
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Several west-central Illinois libraries have received a share of $752,835 allocated to 187 libraries statewide, according to State Librarian Jesse White.
Beardstown Houston Memorial Public Library will receive $3,320 and Jacksonville’s Illinois School for the Visually Impaired will receive $4,900.
Other allocations include $2,000 to Carlinville Public Library, $2,750 to Greenville Public Library, $4,700 to Petersburg Public Library, $4,864 to the Pikeland school district and $4,900 each to Brown County Public Library, Roodhouse Public Library, Rushville Public Library and Taylorville Public Library. Darren Iozia