Sailing home with Read City

Mary Pom ClaiborneOur Town Youth

Reaching the harbor is always a glorious sight! We’ve been on a sea-faring voyage with Mayor Glenn Jacobs’ Read City USA challenge to read and track one million hours in 2022 as …

Sailing home with Read City

Mary Pom ClaiborneOur Town Youth

Land ho! We’ve been reading together as a community since January to meet our one-million hour Read City goal. So far, we’ve read more than 750,000 hours on this seafaring voyage: Oceans of …

Knox County libraries wrap a successful summer

Mary Pom ClaiborneOur Town Youth

The library’s summer reading program ended on August 7 with a bang. More than 4,000 readers completed the Dive In Deep reading challenge and picked up their ocean-themed prizes. What’s more impressive …

Used book sale starts Thursday

Mary Pom ClaiborneOur Town Arts

We just passed 250,000 hours for our Read City goal. That leaves 200,000 hours to go by the end of April. And 650,000 hours for the year. So, if you …