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Diverse library dedicated at Juneteenth celebration
By: Brendan Cassidy reporter@sippicanweek.com - June 20, 2024 MATTAPOISETT — On a day where temperatures reached nearly 90 degrees,...
Brendan Cassidy
Jun 21, 20242 min read
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Upcoming Events
Please join us for a Community Conversation: Racism - Let's Talk About It, on April 27 at the Friend's Meeting House, 103 Marion Road,...
TTAR
Apr 19, 20241 min read
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Little Free Diverse Library to Return to Rochester
Sawyer Smook-Pollitt editor@sippicanweek.com, Jan 30, 2024 ROCHESTER — Tri-Town Against Racism’s Little Free Diverse Library will soon...
Sawyer Smook-Pollitt
Jan 30, 20242 min read
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Gift policy to address Little Free Library ‘confusion’
By Sawyer Smook-Pollitt -editor@sippicanweek.com, January 3, 2024 ROCHESTER — A new policy adopted by the Rochester Board of Library...
Sawyer Smook-Pollitt
Jan 8, 20242 min read
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Opinion: Who gets to decide what our children (and we adults) read?
Lawrence Brown, Columnist, Cape Cod Times, October 8, 2023 There were nearly 1,300 demands to censor library books and resources in the...
Laurence Brown
Oct 8, 20233 min read
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Little Free Diverse Library Pop Ups
First, we want to thank you all for your support this past week. We are always thinking of new ways to address the issues before us and...
Jessica DeCicco-Carey
Oct 7, 20231 min read
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Little Library Approval Rescinded
The Wanderer, Michael DeCicco, October 4, 2023 Rochester’s Library Board of Trustees quickly dispensed with several of its most...
Michael DeCicco
Oct 6, 20233 min read
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Opinion: Library trustees set a precedent
Oct 3, 2023 To the editor: The unanimous vote by the Plumb Library Trustees to remove the Little Free Diverse Library, in of itself, is...
TTAR
Oct 4, 20232 min read
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Little Free Diverse Library to be removed in Rochester
Sawyer Smook-Pollitt, editor@sippicanweek.com, Sep 29, 2023 ROCHESTER — A Little Free Diverse Library that sparked controversy in...
Sawyer Smook-Pollitt
Sep 29, 20233 min read
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Little Free Diverse Library faces scrutiny in Rochester
BY CHRISTINA HAGER, UPDATED ON: SEPTEMBER 25, 2023 / 5:54 PM / CBS BOSTON ROCHESTER - You've seen the little free libraries. In several...
CBS Boston
Sep 26, 20232 min read
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Trustees Pause on Little Library
Michael DeCicco, Wanderer, September 23, 2023 In recent months, a mailbox-sized Little Free Diverse Library, its glass front requesting,...
Michael DeCicco
Sep 24, 20234 min read
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Opinion: There is more of a need for TTAR than ever
This Letter to the Editor appeared in the online version of Sippican Week on September 21, 2023, To the editor: I’m writing this letter...
TTAR
Sep 21, 20235 min read
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Little Free Library sparks controversy, discussion surrounding flag policy
Sawyer Smook-Pollitt editor@sippicanweek.com, Sep 15, 2023 ROCHESTER — Concerns about whether a diversity flag should be allowed to fly...
Sawyer Smook-Pollitt
Sep 15, 20236 min read
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Two flags removed amid policy controversy
Sawyer Smook-Pollitt, editor@sippicanweek.cpom, Aug 2, 2023 ROCHESTER — Two flags flying on town-owned land in Rochester were removed...
Sawyer Smook-Pollitt
Aug 5, 20232 min read
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Rochester Flag Policy Forces Removal of Diversity Flag From Little Free Diverse Library
Tim Weisberg (WBSM) Published: July 24, 2023 ROCHESTER (WBSM) — The organization Tri-Town Against Racism is seeking answers after a...
Tim Weisberg
Jul 28, 20233 min read
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Rochester Select Board Enacts New Flag Policy
Our hearts are heavy today. Plumb Library administration asked us to remove the diversity flag from our Little Free Diverse Library...
TTAR
Jul 20, 20231 min read
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Read all about it: Little Free Diverse Library opens in Rochester
Sawyer Smook-Pollitt - editor@sippicanweek.com, June 17, 2023 ROCHESTER — During a break in the rain on Saturday, June 17, a group...
Sawyer Smook-Pollitt
Jun 18, 20232 min read
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