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Article: Our Say: City right to insist that West Street library stay open
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- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- March 4, 2005
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YOU CAN'T blame Mayor Ellen Moyer and other Annapolitans for being
worried about the future of the West Street library. Such anxiety is
natural, given that the city has no direct say on decisions about the
facility - it's a branch of a library system that is county-funded
and governed by an independent board.
So you could almost hear the city grapevine humming when word got
out that a study commissioned by the library board had concluded that
the community had outgrown the 40-year-old West Street building, and
that there's no room on the site to create the county central library
the system eventually wants to build.
The system's 2004 site plan, in fact, suggests building a 74,000- ...