‘I will be outside picketing’: New Haven residents decry possible library closure, loss of other services
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NEW HAVEN The Mitchell Branch Library, located in the heart of the city’s Westville section, “has been a lifeline” for Westville resident Katie Lancaster and her family including her soon to be 1-year-old pandemic baby, Hazel this past year.
She, like fellow Westville residents Judy and Joy Meikle, all of whom were picking up or dropping off books Tuesday, doesn’t know what she would do if the library were to close, as it might under the “Crisis Budget,” the more austere of two budgets that Mayor Justin Elicker presented Monday in case he can’t get additional aid from the state and Yale University.