Orlando impatient for library

Lurker writes; “Winter Garden officials wonder if the project, begun 21/2 years ago, will ever be finished, and residents are angry over the loss of a meeting room.”

From the article:

Residents’ tongues are wagging, and city officials are quietly shaking their heads over the city’s long-awaited new public library.

On one hand, officials are wondering whether the $2.5 million library ever will open. On the other, townspeople are fuming about the loss of a free meeting room in the new building.

The first shovel of dirt was turned 21/2years ago on the 12,000-square-foot S.C. Battaglia Memorial Winter Garden Branch library — named for a late citrus baron whose family donated the land…

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