May 2025

Dyckman Free Library News: Time for Summer Reading

It is finally here! Sign up for the Summer Reading Program begins this week with the program running for six weeks starting June 2. The main goal of the summer program is to keep kids reading so they don’t lose any reading skills before school starts again. That said, we have fun programming planned to include some art as well as reading. From an escape room, clay creation sessions and a mobile metal foundry to music, pollinator program and a physical comedy program, everyone should find something they like. Stop into the library and pick up a calendar of events – you don’t want to miss any!

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The shot heard round Sleepy Eye

Our nation just celebrated the 250th anniversary of the “shot heard round the world.” That was fired at Concord to begin the Revolutionary War. For baseball fans, the “shot heard round the world” was also Bobby Thompson’s homerun to win the pennant for the New York Giants in 1951.

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