Monday, March 15, 2021 - 5:48 pm
BY JIMMY LAWTON
North Country This Week
OGDENSBURG The Ogdensburg Public Library Board of trustees submitted a letter to City Council Monday requesting support for a public referendum that would provide $225,000 in additional taxes to help fund the library.
The city has been defunding the library in recent years as it works to balance its books and plans to completely end all funding to the library next year.
The move has pushed the library to collect its own taxes through a public referendum attached to the Ogdensburg School District Budget. Although the two are voted on separately, the referendum includes the entire Ogdensburg school district and will be held at the same time as the school budget vote.
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Monday, March 1, 2021 - 5:29 pm
BY JIMMY LAWTON
North Country This Week
OGDENSBURG – Ogdensburg City Councilor Steve Fisher has apologized for a Facebook post that insulted Ogdensburg Public Library Director Penny Kerfien.
Kerfien said she was shocked by the social media screenshot of a message that referred to her as “being bitchy,” and was posted on the Friends of the Ogdensburg Library Facebook Page on a post that called on the public to vote on an upcoming referendum.
Fisher confirmed that he made the post, but he says it was never intended to be public and was part of a private conversation. And while he deleted it within minutes of the upload, a screenshot was widely shared over social media over the weekend.