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Riverhead library budget approved by voters
Voters approved Riverhead Free Library’s 2024-2025 budget yesterday and elected Mary Byrne McDonell, Mitchell Hagler and Susan Bergmann to the library's board of trustees.
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Residents to vote April 9 on $5.2M library budget
The $5.2 million operating budget for the 2024-2025 fiscal year will require a tax levy increase of $25 for the year on at the "average" home in the school district.
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Black History Month celebrations begin this weekend at Riverhead Free Library
The Riverhead Free Library will host film screenings, music, dance and spoken word performances and talks featuring prominent Black community members to celebrate Black History Month. The events begin this weekend.
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What’s all the hoopla about? Check out Riverhead library’s new streaming and e-book platform
The Riverhead Free Library has added a new digital platform: Hoopla allows library cardholders to borrow and download e-books, audio books, digital graphic novels and comics, television shows, movies and music albums.
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Screening of ‘Paper Clips’ documentary set for Sunday afternoon at Riverhead library for Holocaust Remembrance Day
The award-winning 2004 film is about a 1998 project undertaken by middle school students in rural Tennessee to understand the magnitude of the Holocaust by compiling six million paper clips to represent the Jews who died during the genocide.
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Voters OK Riverhead library budget
Voters approved Riverhead Free Library’s $4.7 million 2023-2024 operating budget yesterday by a 50-vote margin, 187 to 137.
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Riverhead library proposes $4.7 million operating budget for 2023-2024
The proposed operating budget requires a tax rate of $5.98 per $1,000 of taxable assessed value, an increase of $29 per year for an 'average' home in Riverhead.
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Black History Month events in Riverhead include an exhibit about the Harlem Renaissance and a screening of the film ‘Selma’
An exhibit focusing on the storied era of the Harlem Renaissance and a screening and discussion of the film 'Selma' are events taking place during Black History Month at Riverhead Free Library.
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Love your library? Here’s a chance to give back: Riverhead Free Library seeks trustees
“The library is the center of the community,” Riverhead Free Library Trustee Janet O’Hare says. “It’s got something to offer everyone, from soup to nuts.” The library is seeking volunteers to fill three seats on its board of trustees.
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East End Voter Coalition MLK Day Program set for Sunday, Jan. 15 at Riverhead library
Celebrate the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy with poetry, prose and music at the The East End Voter Coalition's annual MLK Day Program. Keynote speaker: The Rev. Charles Coverdale
