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Board of Trustees : CeCe Sullivan Rohrbach - Chair, Peg Becksvoort - Vice Chair, Paul Morin, Carol Gillis, and Cristie Barone. Colleen Strickler served as Select Board Liaison. Thank you to this board for your advocacy and helping the library move toward our strategic planning goals. Volunteers : A special thank you to all our volunteers who worked 622.35 hours in FY2025! Thank you to Deb Hall for helping transform the library weekly and with special projects as needed. Thank you to Marlene Tidwell for teaching and sharing your skills with adult/children’s craft programming. Thank you, Mike Guthrie, for helping monthly to keep our books shelved. Volunteer support has continued to help transform the library and keep it moving toward the future. Please contact us if you are interested in volunteering: nglibrary@newgloucester.com or 207-926-4840. Friends of the New Gloucester Public Library: Our Friends group continued their long tradition of fundraising, volunteerism, and advocacy for the library. In FY2025, the Friends’ officers were President Annemarie Salzberg, Vice President Heather Heston, Secretary Robin Fleck, and Treasurer Diantha Grant. The Friends maintain the library’s gardens, and supply refreshments at and assist with programming. The Friends hosted two major book and bake sales in September and June at the community building. They also held smaller pop-up book sales throughout the year. The Friends held an annual appeal from October - December. During Friends of the Library week in October, we celebrated them with a gathering and refreshments. Funds donated by the Friends support programs, specialty items, and passes for a variety of community venues. In December, during Tiny Timber tree lighting the Friend’s supplied hot chocolate and baked cookies for everyone. Thank you to the Friends of the Library for your generosity, time, advocacy, and hard work all year long! For more information or to join the Friends, go to: https://www. friendsnewgloucesterlibrary.org Thank you to all our patrons. If you do not already use the library, please visit us! We look forward to meeting you and are excited to show you what your library has to offer. With a town budget of $159,101.00 in FY2025, the Maine State Library estimates that the New Gloucester Public Library was able to provide over $354,689.50 in value to the town. For more information, please visit our website newgloucesterlibrary.org and follow us on Facebook facebook.com/ newgloucesterlibrary or Instagram instagram.com/newgloucesterlibrary.

Respectfully submitted, Emily Martin, Library Director

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