For its annual “Fine Amnesty Week,” the Voorheesville Public Library allows its patrons to return overdue items without having to pay a fine.

Librarians from halfway around the world have come to the Capital Region to learn from their American counterparts.

An event co-sponsored by the Voorheesville Public Library and the First United Methodist Church will feature a local Muslim activist in the hopes of kickstarting a discussion about diversity that will be followed with other events on the subject.

Voters will elect a trustee and decide on the library’s $1.16 million budget on May 17 from 2 to 9 p.m. at the Voorheesville Middle School foyer.

_{Donna Gwin, president, Friends of the Berne Library}

_{Sherry Burgoon, president, Friends of the Voorheesville Library}

_{Joanne Clough, Guilderland}

_{Donna Gwin, president, Friends of the Town of Berne Library}

Editor’s note: The directors of our local libraries got together to submit this single explanation of the new Upper Hudson Library System circulation and catalogue system, which they titled: “Change is coming! (and that’s a good thing).”

Children trailing colorful balloons carted picture books down Helderberg Trail in wagons and wheelbarrows, accompanied by their relatives, to the new home of the Berne Public Library on Oct. 19. They ran, rode, and strolled from the old library at Town Hall to their resting place inside the former St.