I had a tour of the Warsaw Community Public Library this week. It is really quite an impressive facility. Even more impressive is the fact that it was a true community effort that pulled it together. Those who have been around awhile will remember that it has been a rocky road for the library over the past several years. There was a proposal back in 1992 for the library to move to the fairgrounds. But the local Taxpayers Action Network petitioned against it.They thought the price tag was too high. The TAN group won.They were successful in the remonstrance against the library's fairgrounds building plan. The debate caused a bit of a rift in the community.There were those who thought the library should move out of the aging Carnegie building. Others thought the library should stay downtown and renovate the existing facility. In the end, the stay-downtown crowd won and the library is here to stay.
GARY GERARD, Times-Union Managing Editor- | July 28, 2016