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The Peninsula Public Library board of trustees held a meeting on Monday, September 28. Trustees Miriam Statman, Rochelle Genack, and Sara Isaacson were present, while Joseph Lifschutz and board president Akiva Lubin were absent. Only three hours’ notice was given before the meeting, via signs at the library and an email to library patrons, but it was still attended by more than three dozen community members, including multiple past trustees and present members of government.

Sign posted at Peninsula Public Library, providing three hours' notice of an upcoming meeting The Peninsula Public Library posted a sign this afternoon, Monday, September 28, to the effect that there's a board meeting this evening. We assume this will take place in the Bentley Room in the library's basement. No further information has been supplied at this point.

On Tuesday, September 22, the State Education Department ruled that the Peninsula Public Library board had acted wrongly in changing their bylaws on March 12. Accordingly, the seats of board president Akiva Lubin and trustees Miriam Statman and Joseph Lifschutz will all be up for election in May 2027. Vincent Squitieri, a resident of School District 15, filed a petition on March 30 against the library board, asking that the Commissioner of Education nullify the new bylaws and direct the trustees who had been appointed to vacant seats to run at the next election.

The Peninsula Public Library's board of trustees held their September meeting last night, September 3, in front of a packed house in the Bentley Room in the library’s basement. Members of the public were allowed to address the board for the first time since April, and this feedback occupied all but the final minute of the meeting. Nineteen community members spoke in total, expressing a love for Peninsula as an important local institution.

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