The Library Trustees group has put on hold its plans for a bigger and better Assonet Village Library.
After a recent financial meeting, the trustees nixed plans to place before voters in June an article to buy a former South Main Street church building for $420,000 and convert it into a library, replacing the Guilford H. Hathaway Library. 
“The town is in financial hardship and it is one burden we don’t want to put on them right now,” Library Director Dorothy Stanley-Ballard said on Wednesday.
Library Trustees member Michael T. McCue said the building, also a former restaurant, has triple the square footage of the Hathaway Library, built in 1895.
McCue said the plan was to raise funds and seek federal grant money to buy the building. However, he said federal bodies would only consider awarding grant funds to the town if selectmen approved the measure and it went before voters.
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Original post by Jeffrey D. Wagner