NJ Library NOT closing.
I'm probably the last person to see this, but the decision to close Maplewood Memorial Library from 2:45-5:00 on weekday afternoons (in the hopes of ending their ongoing problems with beastly -- and I do mean beastly -- middle schoolers) has been rescinded.
Instead, the town has given them extra funding to create new after-school programming. The town has also offered "non-threatening safety supervisors", but the library board isn't so sure about that:
“I have real issues about using security guards as our first line of defense against 11- and 12-year-olds,” board Vice-President Karen Pettis said in the Star-Ledger.
I don't know -- judging from the behavior described in the first article, security guards might not be a bad idea. That or a visit from Miss Viola Swamp.