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Town votes to defund library after claims it was “grooming” kids (LGBTQ Nation)

by Lakeland News | Aug 5, 2022 | Intellectual Freedom, Library News, News, Patmos Library

Voters in Jamestown Township, Michigan rejected a ballot measure during the primary elections earlier this week to renew a property tax that funds the local library. The tax pays for 84% of Patmos Library’s $245,000 yearly budget. The failed measure means that the...

A MICHIGAN PUBLIC LIBRARY MAY CLOSE DUE TO CONSERVATIVE PROPAGANDA (Book Riot)

by Lakeland News | Aug 5, 2022 | Intellectual Freedom, Library News, News, Patmos Library

Jamestown Conservatives, a right-wing group in Jamestown Township, Michigan, is responsible for helping defund their public library. After a year-long battle with the Patmos Library, which has included the departure of the Library Director Amber McLain after a...

Upset over LGBTQ books, a Michigan town defunds its library in tax vote (Bridge MI)

by Lakeland News | Aug 5, 2022 | Intellectual Freedom, Library News, News, Patmos Library

JAMESTOWN TOWNSHIP—What started as a fight over an LGBTQ-themed graphic novel may end with the closure of a west Michigan public library. Voters in Jamestown Township, a politically conservative community in Ottawa County, rejected renewal Tuesday of a millage that...
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