As a fundraising event, the New Friends of the Milton-Union Public Library will participate in the West Milton Community Wide Garage Sale, Memorial Day Weekend. The group is planning to hold a rummage sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, May 25 and Saturday, May 26 in the multi-purpose room of the Milton-Union [...]
Former Union Township resident Norene (Harshbarger) Hogle will be visiting the West Milton area and will be presenting a program at the library about her experiences as a WorldTeach volunteer teacher in Namibia, Africain 2009. Upon her retirement from 31 years of teaching in modern schools in highly industrialized nations, this Milton-Union graduate (class of [...]
Marie Stebel began collecting carousels and carousel horses in the early 1980’s. Since then her daughter Katherine and husband Jon never missed an opportunity to expand her collection. Although she has never owned a horse her childhood love of rocking horses was the inspiration for her assortment. On display at the library are just a [...]
The Milton-Union Public Library would like to announce that we are updating our computer system towards the end of May and into the first week of June. During this time our existing software will not be able to process materials incoming or outgoing for our patrons. We would like for the community to know the [...]
By JOHN BADEN Record Herald Writer Courtesy of the Weekly Record Herald; Printed 4.29.12 WEST MILTON – On Jan. 4, 1937, the Milton-Union Board of Education created its own public library after being authorized by Ohio law in the year prior. So Milton-Union Public Library celebrated its 75 years of service last Saturday with a [...]
ANSWERS TO THE MILTON-UNION PUBLIC LIBRARY’S WEEKLY TRIVIA QUESTIONS ARE: Week 1: The library was at different locations before finding its permanent one here. Name the different locations and the years that the library was there. 1. 1937-1941—South-East corner of Miami and Front Streets. Second floor of the old Municipal building. 2. 1941-1965—Store front located [...]
The Milton-Union Public Library’s New Friends of the Library group is in the process of getting ready for the West Milton community garage sale Memorial Day weekend. The rummage sale will be Friday, May 25th and Saturday, May 26th from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and will take place in the multi-purpose room inside [...]
Director, Carol Netzley Coate and Board of Trustee members Robert “Jim” Kinnison, and Marvin Rue traveled to the Ohio Statehouse on February 15th to accept a Resolution honoring the Milton-Union Public Library on its 75th Anniversary. The trio joined Rep. Richard Adams, the resolution’s sponsor, and Speaker William Batchelder, at the House podium to receive the [...]
The Milton-Union Public Library has three dedicated employees who have collectively served our community for seventy years. Each person has served at least 17 years, and none more than 33 years. Mrs. Coate has been at the library longer than Mrs. Hines, but less than Mrs. Callicoat. Can you tell us how many years each [...]
There is an original quilt hanging in the children’s section of the library. Each square was designed in 1990 by local children using construction paper shapes. Ms. Junell Lynch thenused fabric to make a quilt from their templates for Children’s Book Week. It took her a year tocraft together the kid’s artwork; and she honored them [...]
