Libraries around Guthrie County were looking for a 5% increase in funding for the upcoming fiscal year. Yesterday, the Guthrie County Board of Supervisors voted to give them a 1.5% increase instead, and Stuart’s head librarian Sandy Pollard said she’s happy to receive that. “The Board of Supervisors is very good to us. If you look at other counties in the state, they do not help out libraries nearly as much as Guthrie County.”

Pollard says that in addition to government funding, the library has to do a lot of their own fundraising such as holding book sales in order to operate most effectively.