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Library Blog

New Library Hours

The Sherman & Ruth Weiss Community Library is happy to announce that we will be open on Saturdays from 10 am to 1 pm starting on March 12, 2022.  We appreciate everyone being patient with us during these times when we were unable to be open on Saturdays, first due...

Take-N-Make and Take-N-Taste

Take-N-Make and Take-N-Taste

Starting March 7th we’ve got two kits for you to pick up! A Take-N-Make – Leprechaun Lookers and a Take-N-Taste – Oreo Cookies! While supplies last!

Leopold Week 2022: Explore Your Sense of Place! March 4 -13, 2022

Leopold Week 2022: Explore Your Sense of Place! March 4 -13, 2022

FREE virtual programming! We invite you to Explore Your Sense of Place this Leopold Week through a speaker series designed to connect us with the natural landscape through food, history, writing, photography, recreation, and land care — the same tenets the Leopolds...

Women’s History Month

Women’s History Month

The library is featuring Women's History Month, with the theme of "Women Providing Healing, Promoting Hope." This theme is both a tribute to the ceaseless work of caregivers and frontline workers during this pandemic and also a recognition of the thousands of ways...

Scavenger Hunt – Find the Library Leperchauns

Scavenger Hunt – Find the Library Leperchauns

March tends to be "mud season" here, so we all need to see a little green.  To help brighten the month, the library is hosting an inside scavenger hunt for the Library Leprechauns.  You'll be able to find the leprechauns hiding around the library and find the answer...

Welcome Birkebeiner Skiers, Support Crew and Visitors!

Welcome Birkebeiner Skiers, Support Crew and Visitors!

Welcome to all the Birkie skiers, support crew and visitors to the Hayward area!  If you are in need of WiFi feel free to use our free WiFi which is available 24/7 in our parking lot.  We have free public computers and you are able to print for 20 cents per page (B...

Snow Shoe Hike on Library Trail Feb. 9, 2022

Snow Shoe Hike on Library Trail Feb. 9, 2022

  Thank you to everyone who joined us for the snowshoe hike on February 9, 2022. It was great to work with Landmark Conservancy, who sponsored the program, and to hear from Carol Heinrich and Frank Pratt about the library trail. Emily Stone, Naturalist from the...

Winter Olympic Boggle Board

  We’ve got a Winter Olympic Boggle Board on our front window through March 4, 2022. Send us a list of words you find (minimum of 5 words) and have a chance to win in a drawing. Pick up forms in the library.   Boggle puzzles are very easy to play. You need...