Week Calendar

Stimulate and delight your child’s senses. Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play.Build skills that will help your child grow up ready to read.Siblings are welcome.

Stimulate and delight your child’s senses. Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play.Build skills that will help your child grow up ready to read.Siblings are welcome.

The Athens City-County Health Department will demonstrate how to monitor and record blood pressure readings using new technology now available at the library.Stop in any time to check your numbers or come at a designated time to learn how to use t

Celebrate National Poetry month by diving into different poetic forms through timed poetry challenges!Sponsored by the Friends of the Athens Public Library.

Every Other Tuesday, 10:00 AM till 12:00 PM
This is an informal creative gathering of poets and would-be poets,
professional and amateur. All adult age groups are welcome. Steady

Move… Relax… Gain flexibility… Breathe… Stretch… Gain strength.Rebecca Wood (and other instructors) will teach simple yoga poses.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Athens Public Library.

Join the fun as we read, play, sing and create.

The Athens City-County Health Department will demonstrate how to monitor and record blood pressure readings using new technology now available at the library.Stop in any time to check your numbers or come at a designated time to learn how to use t

Join Mary on Thursday mornings at 10:30 for stories, songs, art, friends, special visitors and FUN!!For children ages 0-5 and their grownups.
Call 740-753-2118 for more information.

Stimulate and delight your child’s senses. Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play.Build skills that will help your child grow up ready to read.Siblings are welcome.

Stimulate and delight your child’s senses. Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play.Build skills that will help your child grow up ready to read.Siblings are welcome.

Join us for stories, songs and playful activities every Wednesday at 11 a.m.Designed to encourage a lifelong love of books and support early literacy skills.
Stay to play and visit with friends afterward!

Sharing our garden successes, our failures, techniques, plant choices – all things garden!Meeting every Friday at 11:00 am.

Enjoy stories, songs, and play with Taryn.

Stimulate and delight your child's senses. Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play.Build skills that will help your child grow up ready to read.Siblings are welcome.

Bring your cross-stitch, embroidery, crochet, knitting, lap quilting, lace making or any other handwork project!Show-n-Tell a current or finished project.Share your skills and get introduced to new techniques.Enjoy friends and conversation.Now hap

Enjoy stories, rhyme, and play.  

Drop in and play Yu-Gi-Oh!, 3DS, Pokemon, Magic, or more!Bring your cards if you have some; if you don’t, come play anyway!Now in the Young Adult Area.Saturdays, 1pm-4:30pm

Join us for a movie and popcorn!  Grades 7-12Apri 17th @ 2pm.

Move… Relax… Gain flexibility… Breathe… Stretch… Gain strengthInstructor Linda Cochran teaches simple yoga poses.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Athens Public Library.

The Athens Poetry Group will be hosting and sharing their work in a public reading of poetry to which
all members of the public are also invited to participate -- or just to

Spend Monday afternoons playing this popular fantasy, tabletop role-playing game.

Come discover the joy of creating original works of art or cleverly designed contraptions with KEVA planks!Architects and engineers of all ages are invited!
Every Monday in March and April
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Bring your gardening questions.  Take away tip sheets, motivation, and plenty of seeds.  Master Gardeners and local experts will be on hand

Please join us every Wednesday from 3-4:30 in the teen area to play games and socialize!Grades 7-12 

Come discover the joy of creating original works of art or cleverly designed contraptions with KEVA planks!Architects and engineers of all ages are invited!
Every Monday in March and April
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Bring your own ephemera and small mementos or be inspired by trinkets and whatnot provided and make your own collage journal or 3D art.

Bring your gardening questions.  Take away tip sheets, motivation, and plenty of seeds.  Master Gardeners and local experts will be on hand

Wizard 101, ROBLOX, MINECRAFT and Wii games + snacks + pizza = Game Night!

Bring your gardening questions.  Take away tip sheets, motivation, and plenty of seeds.  Master Gardeners and local experts will be on hand

Make a 3D collage of your own invention.  All materials provided, but feel free to bring your own baubles, bits, and bobs to include.

Bring your gardening questions.  Take away tip sheets, motivation, and plenty of seeds.  Master Gardeners and local experts will be on hand

Learn modern twists to the classic peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Stimulate and delight your child's senses. Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play.
Grades K-3.  Siblings welcome.
Parents/caregivers are expected to stay during playgroup sessions.

Adults with some yoga experience are invited to release stress and enhance their flexibility. 
Please bring a mat, blanket and strap.

Guided by various teachers.

Mondays, 5:30-6:30 pm.

Who doesn’t love a well thought out garden? Many of the plants we see every day are not native and may possess a complex
and fascinating history of travel and trade. Some ubiquitous species are

Bring your gardening questions.  Take away tip sheets, motivation, and plenty of seeds.  Master Gardeners and local experts will be on hand

Every Wednesday from 5 til 8 pm.Bring a project to work on and join us for knitting and conversation.
Beginners and kids are welcome.

Relax and stretch and be well. Open to all beginners, as well as those with more yoga experience.

Join Mary on Tuesday evenings at 6:00 for stories, songs, friends and fun!For young children and their grownups.
Call 740-753-2118 for more information.
All Library programs are free and open to the public.

The League of Women Voters of Athens County will host a forum for candidates running for the office of the
City of Athens' Third Ward.

Democratic Primary Candidates:

Samuel Emerson Crowl

Eric Gunn

La Leche League is a non-profit volunteer organization whose mission is to help mothers to breastfeed.  This is accomplished through
mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information, and education.