Week Calendar

Why do birds have different beaks?  How does a deer hide in plain sight?  Engage in hands-on learning about wild animals' physical features and survival behaviors with Julie Gee, Naturalist at Burr Oak State Park.

Do you work as a handyman or contractor? Would you like to start a home-based business or start a food business? If so, this series is for you!Be your own boss!

Looking for a job?

Join us for a free cuppa to jump-start your week and visit with friends and community members.

Looking for a job?

Looking for a job?

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Join us for stories, songs and playful activities every Thursday at 10:30 a.m.Designed to encourage a lifelong love of books and support early literacy skills.
Stay to play and visit with friends afterward!

Join us for a spot of tea as we enjoy a bit of British television or film together. Cheers!

Do you work as a handyman or contractor? Would you like to start a home-based business or start a food business? If so, this series is for you!Be your own boss!

 Join us for stories, songs and playful activities!

Today we will help make pawpaws for the Pawpaw Festival!After story time, we'll be walking down to the old floral shop in Albany.

Join friends as we read, play, sing and create together.

Join us for stories, play, and fun-filled activities!  Free and open to the public.

Enjoy stories, songs and play with Taryn.

Get to know Community Health Workers with the Athens City-County Health Department.

A book club for adolescents and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities where we enjoy books and friendship.

Do you have unfinishedsewing, quilting, crochet and knitting projects sitting in a drawer? Are you ready
for some new ideas and shortcuts? Do you

Bring your needlework project and enjoy work and conversation with a group of wonderful ladies.

Bring your cross-stitch, embroidery, crochet, knitting, lap quilting, lace making, spinning or any other handwork project and join us for friendship, project show-n-tell, technique discussions and skill sharing.

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

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

Get to know Community Health Workers with the Athens City-County Health Department.

Looking for a job?

Acclaimed novelist, memoirist, and local John Thorndike joins us to read from his new book, A Hundred Fires in Cuba. This historical novel centers around a real-life figure from the Cuban

Join George Eberts, an expert on the history of the Athens Asylum or “The Ridges,” for an outdoor walking tour of the asylum grounds.

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Spend Monday afternoons playing this popular fantasy, tabletop role-playing
game. You do NOT have to be an experienced player -- everyone is

Every Tuesday in the small meeting room.All are welcome!

Come to the Chauncey Public Library for your favorite boffing activities!  Use padded boffer sticks to play games that may include Zombie, Free-For-All, and Capture the Flag!

Join us at the Wells Public Library to party with the pawpaws on the Thursday leading up to the Pawpaw Festival!  Celebrate our native fruit with crafts, games, stories, music and more.  

Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play.
Grades 1-4.  Siblings welcome.
Parents/caregivers are expected to stay during playgroup sessions.Image source:

A free performance on the library stage. If it rains, we'll just bring it inside for an acoustic performance.

Read and discuss award-winning and complex picture books with us! Suitable for families and children in 1st-5th grade. 

This knitting circle is free and open to all adults and is a great way to learn from one another.  It also includes crochet.  Enjoy this

Get together to learn new board games with a fun group of people.Open to the public.

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. Parents and caregivers are

Relax and stretch and be well. Open to all beginners, as well as those with more yoga experience.Join rotating instructors Annie Burnett, Jennifer Collins, Bill Fanning, and Erin Pfahler for this weekly program.

A leader in Southeast Ohio’s dining scene since 1982, Matt Rapposelli is known for developing destination dining experiences like the award-winning Big Chimney Baking Co. and the

Join us at the library to party with the pawpaws on the Tuesday leading up to the Pawpaw Festival!  Celebrate our native fruit with crafts, games, stories, music and more.  

The last thing you want friends and guests to see are water marks left by cold beverages.

Spend the evening  playing some great Strategic board games with Nick Smith.  Games will include Settlers of Catan, Dominion, Small World, 
The Grizzled, and more.Grades 7 and upFree and Open to the Public

What's this movie about?Four friends in a book club are inspired to spice things up after reading Fifty Shades of Grey. With each of them in a different romantic

Meeting time: The second Wednesday of every month at 7pm (except for July, August and December).This group brings in guest speakers who are often noted and published

Most bookmarks are made from cardboard, but ours will be felted fabric with
mixed media decoration. Guest craft leader Nancy Baur has designs in
mind to encourage both mindfulness and letting go of stress. What better