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Article: SOLVAY'S CENTURY-OLD "LITTLE CARNEGIE' LIBRARY PROSPERS.(SERIES: Neighborhoods)(Local)(Column)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- January 19, 2006
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Byline: DICK CASE NEIGHBORHOODS
There's an anchor in place on a plateau of the hill that rises from Milton Avenue to West Genesee Street in the village of Solvay. It's the Solvay Public Library.
Like many of our small-town and neighborhood libraries, this one is a community asset almost beyond measurement. Who's to say how much it's meant to Solvay in more than a century to have its own gathering place of some of man's recorded history, not to mention a record of its own past?
"Our library was cited as one of the key institutions in the village's Vision Committee survey," says librarian Cara Burton, Solvay's library director the last five ...