Kids build out their creativity with Legos at the Northborough library.
A regular program at the Northborough Free Library (and there are many—just check out the daily postings on our calendar), is a drop-in build with Legos session in the Children's Room. Throughout the day, kids and their parents can stop in and build with hundred of Legos in the kids room. Northborough Patch dropped by on Wednesday to visit with some of the kids.
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Kids can start picking up their bags of summer reading at the library, and win prizes for the more books they read.
The Dream Big—Read! program kicks off on June 25 at the Northborough Free Library. _ The Summer Reading Bags can be picked up starting on June 25, and the program ends on Aug. 18. Sign up at the library and then visit the Children's Room to pick up the bag. During the program, children are urged to keep track of the books that have been read or that are read to them to to earn raffle tickets and prizes. For every two books, a raffle ticket is earned. After five books, as well as 20, prizes are handed out. _Visit here for more information. _
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New software changes are coming to the local library this weekend.
Information courtesy of the Northborough Free Library C/W MARS, the automated library network to which Northborough belongs, will be taking down the system on the weekend of Memorial Day, May 26-28 to install new software. Library users will still be able to see the catalog, but will not be able to place holds or access accounts. Any new books or DVDs that the library acquires after May 11 won’t show in the catalog. The new screens for the catalog will look very different, and the library "will help you get used to them, though they will be new to us, too!" There will be more search capabilities as compared with the old system. "If you routinely check your own record to see when your books are due, to renew your books, and to place …
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Make cake pops at the library, play trivia at Sea Dog, and attend "How Did Hope and Change Become Obamanations" at the library.
Our morning column, 5 Things You Need to Know, provides you with information that can help you plan your day and give you some fodder for water cooler conversations. 1. The Northborough Tea Party presents "How Did Hope and Change Become Three Years of Obamanations?" tonight at the Northborough Free Library. 2. Sea Dog Steak and Ale is the new home for trivia, every Monday night. 3. Northborough places, people and things: we'd like to see it all in our Neighborhood Gallery, which is featured on Northborough Patch. It's easy to click and load your own shots. 4. Make fortune cookies and cake pops for your Valentine, your BFF — anyone you'd like — with this Valentine making session at the library. 5. It's Get a Name New Day, as well as Clean …
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You are getting sleeping, very sleepy. Happy hypnotism day.
Our morning column, 5 Things You Need to Know, provides you with information that can help you plan your day and give you some fodder for water cooler conversations. 1. Ms. Carrie brings the music back to the kids with a morning performance at the Northborough Free Library. 2. Only one week left to sign up to have your Christmas tree picked up by Boy Scout Troop 101. 3. Put your trash out. Trash pick-up is back on, and back from the holiday. 4. It's Congress Assembles, Drinking Straw Day and Hypnotism Day, among other things, according to holidays.net. 5. Northborough Patch announces its Teacher of the Year today. Watch for this!
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Listen to chilly stories at the library, take a look at your new tax rate, and be happy that Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb.
Our morning column, 5 Things You Need to Know, provides you with information that can help you plan your day and give you some fodder for water cooler conversations. 1. The Board of Selectmen approved the tax rate for next year, and rejected tax classification. 2. Listen to "chilly" stories about snow, ice and all things winter today at a storytime at the Northborough Free Library. 3. Mothers And More hosts a member-led discussion about ways to give back to your community and ways to foster the spirit of gratitude and altruism in your children today at The Senior Center. 4. Did you know on Tuesday nights you can eat dinner at the Senior Center? It's open to all. 5. Some On the Day in History fun: in 1790, the first successful cotton mill …
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Here's a list of the top ten checkouts from Central Massachusetts libraries
Here are this week's top ten checkouts from Central Massachusetts libraries. 1. The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan 2. The Affair: A Reacher Novel by Lee Child 3. Kill Me if You Can: A Novel by James Patterson 4. Bridesmaids (Video, DVD) 5. Thor (Video, DVD) 6. Explore Eighteen by Janet Evanovich 7. A Stolen Life: A Memoir by Jaycee Lee Dugard 8. Hanna (Video, DVD) 9. Maine: A Novel by J. Courtney Sullivan 10. Something Borrowed by Nicholas Sparks About this column: This is a list of the top ten checkouts at local libraries this week.
Here's a list of the top ten checkouts from Central Massachusetts libraries.
Here are this week's top ten checkouts from Central Massachusetts' libraries. 1. Kill Me if You Can: A Novel by James Patterson 2. A Stolen Life: A Memoir by Jaycee Lee Dugard 3. Bridesmaids (Video, DVD) 4. Maine: A Novel by J. Courtney Sullivan 5. The Lincoln Lawyer (Video, DVD) 6. The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan 7. Rio (Video, DVD) 8. Thor (Video, DVD) 9. Source Code (Video, DVD) 10. Something Borrowed (Video, DVD) About this column: This is a list of the top ten checkouts at local libraries this week.
Build a ship at the library today. It's for kids, and it's not a real ship.
Our morning column, 5 Things You Need to Know, provides you with information that can help you plan your day and give you some fodder for water cooler conversations. 1. Stop by the Northborough Free Library today to make a Columbus ship. A mini ship, that is; It would be quite the task to put together full-sized, functioning, Santa Marias. Drop by anytime between 9:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. to the Children's Room and they've got the supplies. 2. Tonight at JJ's it's a tribute to the British Invasion with Union Jack. 3. Helping Hands and Moms and Tots are collaborating on a coat drive to help gather gently used winter items for kids in town. Find out more. 4. Amazon has made library e-books available for Kindle users. Here's how you check 'em out …
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Learn about the wisdom of the aging brain, bring your kids to some pizza at the Rec Center, and take in a varsity field hockey game.
Our morning column, 5 Things You Need to Know, provides you with information that can help you plan your day and give you some fodder for water cooler conversations. 1.Kids ages 1-5 can enjoy Pizza and Play at the Rec Center on Southwest Cutoff. This program is weekly at 5 p.m., and includes what you might expect: pizza and some playtime. 2.The weekly children's program Mother Goose on the Loose is flying back to the Northborough Free Library today. 3. Professor Emeritus Rene LeBlanc from Framingham State College presents the "Wisdom of the Aging Brain" in this program at the Northborough Free Library at 6:30 p.m. 4. The girls varsity field hocky team from Algonquin takes on Middlesex today on the home field. 5. Today at ARHS, the …
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