Town council to decide fate of Mulgrave library

MULGRAVE: The future of the library in the Town of Mulgrave is before council, again.

During their regular monthly council meeting on March 2, it was once again decided to table a decision on the fate of the Eastern Counties Regional Library (ECRL) Mulgrave Branch.

Last month at the town’s committee of the whole meeting, senior staff held a discussion surrounding the library.

“The issue revolves around low usage of the facility,” Mayor Ron Chisholm said. “With so few patrons, it wouldn’t make sense to keep somebody hired on there.”

Chisholm indicated if council’s decision is ultimately to close the library, the people of Mulgrave won’t lose complete access to ECRL resources.

He suggested residents in the Town of Mulgrave will continue, like always, to have access to the library in Port Hawkesbury, along with having continued access to a curb-side pick-up service that will remain within town limits, located at the ECRL Headquarters.

Drake Lowthers

Drake Lowthers has been a community journalist for The Reporter since July, 2018. His coverage of the suspicious death of Cassidy Bernard garnered him a 2018 Atlantic Journalism Award and a 2019 Better Newspaper Competition Award; while his extensive coverage of the Lionel Desmond Fatality Inquiry received a second place finish nationally in the 2020 Canadian Community Newspaper Awards for Best Feature Series. A Nova Scotia native, who has called Antigonish home for the past decade, Lowthers has a strong passion in telling people’s stories in a creative, yet thought-provoking way. He graduated from the journalism program at Holland College in 2016, where he played varsity football with the Hurricanes. His simple pleasures in life include his two children, photography, live music and the local sports scene.

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Drake Lowthers has been a community journalist for The Reporter since July, 2018. His coverage of the suspicious death of Cassidy Bernard garnered him a 2018 Atlantic Journalism Award and a 2019 Better Newspaper Competition Award; while his extensive coverage of the Lionel Desmond Fatality Inquiry received a second place finish nationally in the 2020 Canadian Community Newspaper Awards for Best Feature Series. A Nova Scotia native, who has called Antigonish home for the past decade, Lowthers has a strong passion in telling people’s stories in a creative, yet thought-provoking way. He graduated from the journalism program at Holland College in 2016, where he played varsity football with the Hurricanes. His simple pleasures in life include his two children, photography, live music and the local sports scene.