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Franklin Library to host ice cream social

This Saturday, Sept. 20 at 3 p.m., the Friends of the Franklin Library will host an old-fashioned ice cream social featuring the award-winning barbershop quartet, Concord Express. The festivities start at 3 p.m. on the grounds of the Franklin Public Library with an ice cream social. Concord Express sings in the traditional barbershop style and consists of four greater Boston-area performers. The public is invited to this free cultural and tasteful event. In the event of inclement weather the event will move indoors to the library community room on the lower level.

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Friends of Franklin Public Library accepting book donations

The Friends of the Franklin Public Library have announced they are accepting book donations for the Fall Book sale scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 18. Book sale donations may be dropped off at the Franklin Public Library during regular business hours lower level. The Friends are seeking hardcover and paperback books, fine periodicals, videotapes, DVDs, record albums and CDs, but not outdated encyclopedias and reference books, or Reader’s Digest Condensed Books.