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Every book ever written is about the pandemic — at least that’s what I’m discovering after trying to escape the here and now through fiction.
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1/27/22
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For Freeport Memorial Library Director Lee Ann Moltzen, the Covid-19 pandemic represented a challenge, not only to preserve programming, but to regain one of the primary identities inherent to any library: a community place to be. The spaciousness of the library building eased the pain of reopening.
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By Reine Bethany
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1/13/22
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Special Announcement- January 4
The Freeport Memorial Library building will be closed to the public throughout the week of Monday, Jan. 3 through Sunday, Jan. 9.
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1/4/22
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Veterans Day, unlike Memorial Day, commemorates not only veterans who were killed in battle or survived war and have died since, but also those who are still living. Freeport’s American Legion Post 342 was to hold its yearly observance of Veterans Day on Nov. 11, after press time, at the monument in front of the Freeport Memorial Library. Calvin Andrew, Post 342 treasurer, gave the Herald an interview in which he recounted his own journey after returning from the Vietnam War.
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By Reine Bethany
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11/11/21
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Before Barbara Spinelli, the career counselor at the Freeport Memorial Library, wrote “The Letters,” her grief over losing her young husband in the Vietnam War five decades before remained deeply private. Now people from all over who have read “The Letters” are texting her and calling her to tell about their own grief. They are reaching for the healing that she found when she courageously faced the pain that she had shut into a hard-shell suitcase half a century before.
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By Reine Bethany
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10/22/21
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If Luis Cordero and his renowned band, Los Amigos del Amargue, had come to the Freeport Memorial Library on October 3 solely to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, their performance would have been fascinating in itself. But the musicians also showed that, while tradition is important, it is still only a venue for expressing the human heart.
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By Reine Bethany
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10/16/21
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September is Library Card Sign-up Month, a time when Freeport Memorial Library joins the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries nationwide to remind parents, caregivers, and students that signing up for a library card is the first step on the path to academic achievement and lifelong learning. During the month, the ALA and libraries work together in a national effort to ensure every child signs up for their own library card, as they have since 1987.
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by Reine Bethany and Marilyn Pignataro
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9/15/21
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When he was working on his master’s in library and information science at C.W. Post in 1989, Kenneth Bellafiore stumbled on a want ad for a library trainee at the Freeport Memorial …
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By Ronny Reyes
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3/5/21
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For years, the Freeport Memorial Library has tailored special programs for residents of all ages at its building, but there was one age group that had long proved difficult to serve — …
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By Ronny Reyes
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10/22/20
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Alan “Al” Berg, 73, of Freeport, died on July 28.
He was the beloved husband of the late Rita, loving father of Andrew, Matthew and Thomas and dear grandfather of Lincoln and …
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By Ronny Reyes
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8/7/20
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