FREE RMV Driving Tests Online
The Newbury Town Library has partnered with driving-tests.org to provide patrons with free, ad-free, and registration-free Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) practice tests for car, motorcycle, and commercial vehicle licenses. Perfect for the learner’s permit test, driver’s license test, and refresher test for seniors.
7 NEW Magazines for 2020!
Even though everything may seem to be going digital, we think it’s still enjoyable to flip through a magazine in print. For 2020, we’ve added 7 NEW magazine subscriptions to our regular offerings. Look for these titles in the library or in the catalog in January!
Beginner Watercolor Class (6-week series, in-person)
Wednesdays, Oct. 20 – Nov. 24, 2021 from 2:30-4:30pm
Would you like to experience the magic of watercolor painting? Join us on Wednesday afternoons to learn the fundamentals of watercolor painting from handling brushes to mixing color, creating their paintings with instruction and guidance from instructor, Donna Callahan. Each lesson will focus on a basic technique. By the series’ end, you will have several finished paintings.
Harvest Fest – October 23th!
Saturday, October 23 from 10am – 2pm
Please join us for the Friends of the NTL’s annual Harvest Festival – a fun day out with your family and which supports the NTL! Here’s what’s happening this year:
- Literary Pumpkin Contest; ALL AGES; prizes awarded
- Touch-A-Truck (with silent hour, 1-2pm)
- Curated Book Sale
- Outdoor games: corn hole, bocce, croquet
- Children’s Take & Make Craft
- Amazing raffle prizes!
CLASS ACT EXTRACTS
Oct. 6th at 7pm (Virtual)
Join Ehris and Velya or Grounded Goodwife to unleash your inner mixologist! A touch of coconut extract in the frosting on a chocolate cake? Yum! If you do a lot of baking or cooking, you’ll use a lot of extracts. Homemade extracts are easy to make, great for gifting, inexpensive, and don’t contain creepy ingredients like their supermarket cousins.
Writing for Wellness and Self-Care, with Áine Greaney!
Oct. 9th from 10am-12pm (Virtual)
For beginner or intermediate writers
Did you know that writing 15 minutes per day, four times per week can help you in your daily life, learning and work? In this workshop, local author and health writer Áine Greaney will give an overview of the research-supported benefits of expressive writing for your emotional and physical health (based on 300 clinical studies). You will learn how to build a writing practice that will help you to feel and think better.
Early Bird Hours
Are you an early bird? You won’t catch worms but you might catch a hot new book or dvd during our early bird hours! We hope that this extra time at the beginning of the day will make it convenient to use our collections and services at a time that’s best for you. If you like to get an early start to your day, come check out the library on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 9:00 am! (And don’t forget, we return to being open Saturdays 10a-2p starting Sept. 11th!)
The Newbury Town Library StoryWalk
A new StoryWalk book is coming for fall! And what a beautiful time of year to stroll the library grounds. We’ll be featuring Fall Leaves by Loretta Holland. As always, don’t forget to enter on the last station for your chance to win a copy of the book!