Trustees approve $2,000 in book purchases and flag service for Bancroft Memorial Library.
Hopedale library board approves $2,000 in spending for books and flag service. The Trustees unanimously authorized a $1,500 ABDO purchase for non-fiction and farm animal materials and a $500 donation-fund allocation for VOX books, according to meeting minutes. Library Director Keely Bethel-Penny
Bancroft Memorial Library _ Board of Trustees · Meeting of July 14, 2026
Hopedale library board approves $2,000 in spending for books and flag service. The Trustees unanimously authorized a $1,500 ABDO purchase for non-fiction and farm animal materials and a $500 donation-fund allocation for VOX books, according to meeting minutes. Library Director Keely Bethel-Penny reported FY26 overall checkouts up 9 percent year-over-year, with electronic checkouts surging 26 percent.
Board member Frederick Oldfield III donated a Salvation Army flag service placing flags at the library before Memorial Day through two weeks after Independence Day, then again for Labor Day, September 11th commemoration, and Veterans Day in Mendon, Hopedale, and Milford.
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Source: the Bancroft Memorial Library _ Board of Trustees meeting of July 14, 2026, compiled from the official minutes.
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