Apr 28, 2021 BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE The ADK Quad-County Decentralization Grant Program of the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts this week announced the recipients of the 2021 grant awards, with funds made available by the New York State Council on the Arts. ALCA’s program is regranting a total of $91,720 for 30 projects throughout the four counties ALCA, as the region’s decentralization grant program site, serves: Clinton, Essex, Franklin and Hamilton. As in previous years, grants of up to $5,000 were available to eligible organizations and artists based in these four counties. Funding decisions were made by a panel of artists and arts advocates who volunteered their time. For each year’s grant cycle, governmental and quasi-governmental entities, tribal organizations and New York state-designated nonprofits are eligible to be direct applicants, as well as serve as fiscal sponsors. Arts groups that are not official nonprofits and individual artists/artist collectives can
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The Saranac Free Library on Main Street opened for curbside service in Septemeber.
(Enterprise photo â Amy Scattergood)
PLATTSBURGH Library patrons can get their read on with the opening of libraries in the Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System. “A year ago in March, we had the New York pause and pretty much everybody closed,” Steve Kenworthy, director of the system, said. “Then at the end of April/May, we started meeting to see if there were services we could provide.” About that time, some of the libraries started to re-open with curbside service. “That was the main resource for pretty much the rest of the year,” he said.
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
Dec 11, 2020 PLATTSBURGH The Champlain Valley Educational Services School Library System and Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System have partnered to increase access to more e-books and e-audiobooks for area students. The collaboration includes all CVES school districts that are part of the CEFLS service area, including Keene and AuSable Valley. Students can now borrow age-appropriate digital titles from the public library system, in addition to those offered to their school district through CVES. Both the school and public library collections can be searched through the Sora app using one login. Students can install Sora from the Apple App Store, Google Play Store or soraapp.com. All students attending a CVES component district have a login ID and can contact their school librarian for this information.