Due to the weather, the library will open at 12:00pm. There will be no Preschool Storytime today. Sorry the the inconvenience.
It’s never too early (or too late) to plan for retirement, but most people don’t know where to start. Join, Jeffery Jones, MetLife Agency Sales Director, at Ballston Spa Public Library on Tuesday January 10th at 5:30 to discuss such things as: sources of retirement income, IRA rollover, employer distribution options and more. Please note: this workshop is designed for informational purposes only; there will be no sales pitch.
*Effective January 3, 2012:
Library card holders wishing to use the public access computers will need to be in “good standing”. “Good standing” is defined as having fines on their cards of $7.00 or less. Those with fines over $7.00 will not be able to use the computers.
Computer use sessions will increase from 1 hour per day to (2) 1-hour sessions per day. These session could be taken without interruption (if no one is waiting) or 2 separate 1 hour blocks of time during the day.
Come to the book discussion group on January 25th at 3:00pm to discuss, The Tie that Binds by, Kent Haruf. New members are encouraged to attend. Copies of the book are available for loan at the Circulation Desk.
Book Description:Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed, IV taped to the back of her hand, police officer at her door. She is charged with murder. The clues: a sack of chicken feed slit with a knife, a milky-eyed dog tied outdoors one cold afternoon. The motives: the brutal business of farming and a family code of ethics as unforgiving as the winter prairie itself.
In his critically acclaimed first novel, Kent Haruf delivers the sweeping tale of a woman of the American High Plains, as told by her neighbor, Sanders Roscoe. As Roscoe shares what he knows, Edith’s tragedies unfold: a childhood of pre-dawn chores, a mother’s death, a violence that leaves a father dependent on his children, forever enraged. Here is the story of a woman who sacrifices her happiness in the name of family–and then, in one gesture, reclaims her freedom. Breathtaking, determinedly truthful, The Tie That Binds is a powerfully eloquent tribute to the arduous demands of rural America, and of the tenacity of the human spirit.
