Community Forum: Support Ilsley Library bond

Ilsley Public Library is one of the most used facilities in our community. I’m asking Middlebury townspeople to vote yes on the May 7 Library bond.

Ilsley Public Library — a Middlebury treasure — deserves the support of town residents when we vote on a bonding proposal to expand and renovate its century-old building on Main Street. The shortcomings of the present structure include moisture problems i … (read more)

The Ilsley 100 Project Team has done a superb job. It has developed a beautiful design to provide library users — from toddlers to seniors — with a safe, accessible, energy-efficient building to accommodate their needs for the next 50 years or more. Furth … (read more)

Architects are firming up plans for a $16.5 million expansion and renovation of Middlebury’s Ilsley Library, with May 7 tentatively flagged for a local bond vote. Learn more in this video.

While Ilsley Public Library boosters are seeking to write a new chapter in the Middlebury institution’s 100-year history — one they hope will be based on a major makeover of the institution’s longtime headquarters at 75 Main St. — they’re also asking patr … (read more)

LOCAL PHYSICIAN NAOMI Hodde will give a talk called “On Being Enough: Combating Perfectionism Through Self-Compassion,” at Ilsley Library on March 19.

The library is an amazing regional resource, used by residents of many towns surrounding Middlebury.

When Middlebury voters endorsed a local option tax back in 2008, they saw it as a means by which neighbors and visitors would help pay off debt on the $16 million Cross Street Bridge. Sixteen years later, the local option tax has been paying even bigger d … (read more)

NBM President Caroline Carpenter has invited Ilsley Public Library to temporarily relocate its public facing operations — rent-free — to the first floor of the bank’s historic Duclos building.

It’s not often any town’s taxpayers get such good news. But that happened recently when the Middlebury selectboard learned the proposed $16.4 million rebuild of Middlebury’s Ilsley Library might be accomplished with a $4.5 million bond vote.

Consider: What social institution is now and has historically been the most successful at improving the lives of the general public, while at the same time harboring little to no harm and trouble?

In an AAUW talk titled “Embracing Solitude for Psychological Well Being” at Ilsley Library on Tuesday, Middlebury College Prof. Gina Thomas at diverse reactions that the prospect of being alone elicits. 

Architects are firming up plans for a major expansion and renovation of Middlebury’s Ilsley Library, with May 7 tentatively flagged for a local bond vote.

From floor to ceiling, Anna Fugaro’s Middlebury living space is filled with her own artwork, as well as her mother’s paintings and countless photos.

Learn about the disease in a documentary film by a local woman who knows first hand. Plus there will be experts and caregivers there to lead a discussion.