🌱 Gap library faces permanent closure, with no date announced
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- Gap library faces permanent closure, with no date announced
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📰 News we're reading
• Gap Branch Library to close after failed Lancaster County funding referendum (wgal.com) — Gap’s library branch will close permanently after Lancaster County’s library funding referendum failed, but workers say they have not received a closure date. The branch remained open Monday, November 9. Its planned closure would mean losing a local source of free Wi-Fi, public computers and more than 15,000 library items. 
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Solanco Neighborhood Ministries, 14 S. Church Street, Quarryville
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🗞 Nearby News
Paradise
- Lancaster County government calendar: Nov. 9, 2026 (lancasteronline.com)
Ronks
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New Holland
- Lancaster County Births: November 9, 2026 (lancasteronline.com)
- Lititz woman steals from father: Top 5 most read stories Nov. 2-8 [ICYMI] (lancasteronline.com)
- Police seek public's help finding missing teen with ties to New Holland (lancasteronline.com)
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