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In-person sign-ups for the Shamokin Rotary 12th Annual Turkey Trot 5K Run/Walk are taking place this morning at the library! This event is set to take place on Thursday, November 28 (Thanksgiving) at Shamokin Area High School’s Kemp Memorial Stadium with registration beginning at 8 AM that morning and then the race starting at 9 AM.

Sign-up forms can continue to be filled out at the library until November 1st! For more information about this event, you can reach out to the group at shamokinrotaryPA@gmail.com.

Next week on Thursday (10/31) the library will be open special Halloween hours that will differ from our usual Tuesday/Thursday evening schedule. Open hours will be 9:30AM-5PM, so please keep this in mind if you’re looking to grab books/movies or use the computer that day!

Cookbook Book Club will be meeting at the library this coming Monday (10/28) at 6 PM! The theme for this month is ethnic food and everyone is encouraged to bring a prepared dish to share that connects back to their own heritage. For additional info or to sign up, stop by the library or give us a call!

Just a friendly reminder that the library will be closing at 5 PM today prior to the start of the Shamokin Halloween Parade. Before and during the parade, folks from the library will be out front handing out goodie bags until we run out! 🍭👻🎃

Just a friendly reminder that tomorrow (10/22) the library will be open special hours differing from our regular Tuesday/Thursday evening schedule due to the Shamokin Halloween Parade kicking off at 6 PM. We’ll be open from 9:30AM-5PM so please keep this in mind if you need to grab books, movies, or use the computer tomorrow.

During the parade, representatives from the library will be out front of the library handing out bags of candy until we run out!

This morning at Preschool Storytime & Movement we read “I Like Pumpkins” since it’s prime pumpkin season at the moment! Following the story and song time, everyone got to choose between decorating a paper pumpkin or piecing together a spooky looking cat. We later wrapped up our morning with snack time which featured cupcakes generously brought from home to help celebrate a little lady’s birthday! 🎃🥳🎃

Thank you to local artist/author Bob McCormick for visiting our library Saturday morning to discuss his most recently published work “Reclamation: From Coal Dust to Hope” which lovingly depicts a wide variety of locations all over the Coal Region as they would’ve appeared in a time now long gone by.

McCormick’s exceptional talent as an artist shines throughout the book and the natural storytelling abilities showcased in the text that comes paired with each painting results in a very engaging overall piece of work! ⚒🎨🚂

Additionally, thank you to our partners at the Northumberland County Council For the Arts and Humanities for helping make this event possible!

We received this marvelous piece of mail this morning at the library. We were all very happy to hear that young Mr. Zarkowski found just the right costume for Halloween this year at last month’s giveaway!

A huge thank you once again goes out to event organizers Lauren Zimmerman, Maria James, Lindsay Thomas, and Heather Krebs for putting together this initiative and for volunteering their time and effort to ensure kids all across the community feel the same way! 👻🎃😈🤖

Looking to research your family history? Shamokin-Coal Township Public library is just the place to go! Our library offers free public access to the Ancestry Library Edition online database. This means that thousands of records pertaining to births, deaths, marriages, census data, and so much more can be easily retrieved with just a few simple steps!

Free passes for the whole family to visit Bloomsburg Children’s Museum are also still available to check out from the library!

Day passes are valid for general admission only and do not cover special events/programs, classes, or workshops hosted at the museum. These passes can be checked out for 1 week and then are to be promptly returned to the library just like a book.

Please be sure to return the passes in a timely manner so that as many families as possible can take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to play, learn, and discover together! 🔭🌎🚀