Budget cuts may limit bookmobile service in Mass.

From the Boston Globe:

The bookmobile\’s winding route includes stops at Ethel White\’s house in West Hawley, the New Ashford Town Hall and nearly 100 small towns and tiny libraries in the hills and valleys of Western Massachusetts . . .

Now, officials say state cutbacks could trim the service that provides some of the state\’s smallest libraries with books and tapes to supplement their own tiny collections. In three little mountain towns without libraries of their own – Hawley (population 330), New Ashford (population 250) and Washington (population 540) – it is the public library.

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