The Library Trustees has put on hold its plans for a bigger and better Assonet Village Library.
After a financial meeting recently, 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 has said the building, also a former restaurant, has triple the square footage of the current Assonet library from 1895 – the Guilford H. Hathaway Library.
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 it and it [...]

Original post by Jeffrey D. Wagner