I ve never been able to find a good way to display Christmas cards; I am not a hang them around the door frame kind of person (it grates on my minimalist sensibility), so last year I put out a big bowl in our dining room and put them all in there (to be fair, I took the idea from a friend I m not that quick). It keeps them neat and tidy, and my kids love going through them all year long. As we ve added to the bowl this year, I ve spent some time perusing last year s cards.
What a difference a year makes.
By McKENZIE DELISLE Press-RepublicanÂ
Dec 27, 2020
PLATTSBURGH â While the CVES School Library System had provided area students access to digital book distributer OverDrive for years, Susanne Ford-Croghan said the COVID-19 pandemic had really skyrocketed its use. When OverDrive offered the option of partnering with the public library system, we immediately jumped on the opportunity,  the Champlain Valley Educational Services (CVES) School Library System/Arts in Education coordinator said of a recent collaboration with the Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System (CEFLS). We have doubled the number of titles the students have easy access to. NO END DATE
The partnership between the two area library systems impacted all CVES school districts located within the CEFLS service area, allowing those students to borrow age-appropriate, digital titles from both the public library system, as well as those offered to their home distr