- June 25, 2026
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Baby & Me
Baby & Me gives your child the opportunity to hear lots of language while you spend time bonding together! Program lasts about 15-20 minutes, and is designed for babies ages birth up to 23 months.
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Music & Rhyme Time
At each Music & Rhyme Time we sing songs, dance and play instruments to a guitar accompaniment, participate in action rhymes, and read one short story. Each lively and fun session lasts about 20-40 minutes and is designed for two-year-olds and their grownup!
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Toddler Craft
The two-year-olds are in charge at this art and craft time designed to let their imaginations run wild. Some sessions will consist of different art supplies to try in free-form play, while some sessions will have a more structured activity. This program starts right after Music & Rhyme time each week.
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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Drop-In Legos
Come build a brick masterpiece with our Lego collection! Ages 4 and up with a grownup!
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- June 26, 2026
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Family Dance Party
Wear whatever makes you feel like dancing (costume, fancy outfit, whatever!) and come have a dance party! Dance party is 30 minutes long, and is designed for families of all ages.
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Nintendo Switch Club
Nintendo Switch Club, Fridays, 1:30 –5:45 p.m.: Calling all teen gamers! Join us for an afternoon of fun, friends, and Nintendo Switch action. Whether you’re racing in Mario Kart, smashing it up in Super Smash Bros., or teaming up in Splatoon, we’ve got three in-house Switch consoles and plenty of games to go around. Drop in anytime, no experience needed. Just bring your game face and get ready to level up your Friday!
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- June 27, 2026
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Saturday Morning VolunTeens
Teens ages 14 and up are invited to join our Saturday Morning VolunTeen Program! Work together with other teens to design and run awesome community events like mini golf in the library, cookie decorating, Movie Saturdays, and more… all through the Teen Room. You’ll also help with cool projects and essential library tasks like shelving, shelf-reading, book displays, and even help with collection development. Earn volunteer hours, build leadership skills, and make the library a better place… all while having fun!
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Last Saturday Storytime
Lots of music and rhymes, and one or two short stories. Designed for toddlers and preschoolers, but all are welcome!
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Kids Drop-In Activities
Various activities will be set up in the children’s section – activities may include art projects, sensory activities, experiments, building activities, and more! Designed for ages 4 and up, but open to everyone with adult supervision.
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Hoop with Nettie Loops
Fun and interactive hoop performance and hands on hooping workshop, where we will learn new hoop tricks and have a great time moving to the music! All ages.
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Teen Skateboard Decorating
Teens! Kick off summer reading by swinging by the library and decorating your own full size skateboard deck to take home. While supplies last (we have a lot!)
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Summer Reading Programs Begin
Children:
Topsham Public Library is offering summerreading programs for children, teens, and adults. There will be prizes forreading, listening, and attending fun programs. This year we will end on August22. Come in and pick up your packets today! For more information visittopshamlibrary.org.
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- June 29, 2026
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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Minecraft Meet for Teens and Tweens @TPL
Teens and Tweens! Join us to play Minecraft on library computers and Nintendo Switches, build creatively, team up with friends, and explore new worlds together. Each session may include creative builds, survival challenges, or mini-games.
No experience necessary, beginners are welcome!
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- June 30, 2026
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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Preschool Art
Designed for 3-5 year olds, we will learn about different kinds of art and try out different art styles and supplies. Caregivers are requested to stay nearby, in case your preschooler needs assistance.
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Kids Art Club (ages 7 - 12)
Calling young art lovers! This club is designed for 7-12year olds and will allow young artists to experiment and learn about different art styles and try out new forms of arts and crafts. Weekly from 4-5 on Tuesdays.
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- July 1, 2026
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Preschool Storytime
At preschool storytime, we sing songs and do action rhymes, read up to four stories, and play percussion instruments. Storytime is 30 - 45 minutes long and is designed for ages 3 and up.
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The Topsham Sharing Table
FREE PRODUCE from local farms for anyone who needs it. Help yourself to what you need and leave the rest for others. Organized by the Merrymeeting Gleaners, a project of the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program. First come, first served, while supplies last.
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Cancelled - Write! A Roundtable Writers’ Group for Teens
Anyone can write, but are you a writer? or want to be one? Come explore the craft of creative writing. Expand your skills at building characters, worlds, plots, and twists. Develop your ability to give and take feedback. Learn what makes stories sell. And have fun!
Drop in and see if this is for you. No experience necessary. Open to all interested teens.
Sessions will be facilitated by M E Williams. Margaret has been writing all her life—from school assignments, to business memos, to website content, marketing brochures, and most recently to Middle Grade fiction. She taught college marketing and writing-for-business courses, before working a few years at a startup multimedia company. Her first story, a holiday chapter book, received honorable mention in an unpublished manuscript competition. She is now seeking representation to sell her debut Middle Grade fantasy novel, while working on her next book. She says, “I can’t make you a writer—that’s something you have to do yourself. But writers help writers, and I can help you on your journey.”
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- July 2, 2026
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Baby & Me
Baby & Me gives your child the opportunity to hear lots of language while you spend time bonding together! Program lasts about 15-20 minutes, and is designed for babies ages birth up to 23 months.
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Baby & Me Craft
Caregivers can help baby make seasonally-appropriate art. All supplies provided, just bring your baby! Designed for babies from birth to 23 months and their caregivers. Offered the first Thursday of each month at 10:30.Please arrive by 10:30 to participate in this activity.
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Music & Rhyme Time
At each Music & Rhyme Time we sing songs, dance and play instruments to a guitar accompaniment, participate in action rhymes, and read one short story. Each lively and fun session lasts about 20-40 minutes and is designed for two-year-olds and their grownup!
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Toddler Craft
The two-year-olds are in charge at this art and craft time designed to let their imaginations run wild. Some sessions will consist of different art supplies to try in free-form play, while some sessions will have a more structured activity. This program starts right after Music & Rhyme time each week.
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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Drop-In Legos
Come build a brick masterpiece with our Lego collection! Ages 4 and up with a grownup!
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Rare Reads Silent Reading
The Rare Reads book group invites you to an hour of companionable silent reading. Open to all.
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Friends of the Topsham Public Library Meeting
Started in 1998, The Friends of the Topsham Public Library is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to supporting the Topsham Public Library. The Friends value the Topsham Public Library as a cultural, educational and recreational center and contribute time, effort, and resources to further develop the library’s potential as a dynamic force in our community. The Friends augment the library budget through fundraising to finance virtually all library programs and events. Annual membership, donations, and patronage of the annual book sale strengthens the Topsham Public Library and ensures the continued growth of Library services. All meetings are open to the public. New members are always welcome.
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- July 3, 2026
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Nintendo Switch Club
Nintendo Switch Club, Fridays, 1:30 –5:45 p.m.: Calling all teen gamers! Join us for an afternoon of fun, friends, and Nintendo Switch action. Whether you’re racing in Mario Kart, smashing it up in Super Smash Bros., or teaming up in Splatoon, we’ve got three in-house Switch consoles and plenty of games to go around. Drop in anytime, no experience needed. Just bring your game face and get ready to level up your Friday!
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- July 4, 2026
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Closed for Independence Day
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- July 6, 2026
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4H presents: To the Moon
Explore what it takes to live and work as a team during space missions! Through hands-on engineering challenges, learn to solve problems, communicate under pressure, and successfully land on the moon. Open to middle school youth. This is a series program designed to build on knowledge progressively throughout the weeks, sign up required for all four weeks.
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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- July 7, 2026
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Read to Topsham Police Department's Comfort Dog Garver
Want to practice your reading skills with a GREAT listener? Want some (optional) doggy snuggles? Come read to Garver(an English Labrador)! If there are a lot of friends reading, we will have 5-minute turns. Designed for ages 3 and up.
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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Preschool Art
Designed for 3-5 year olds, we will learn about different kinds of art and try out different art styles and supplies. Caregivers are requested to stay nearby, in case your preschooler needs assistance.
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Kids Art Club (ages 7 - 12)
Calling young art lovers! This club is designed for 7-12year olds and will allow young artists to experiment and learn about different art styles and try out new forms of arts and crafts. Weekly from 4-5 on Tuesdays.
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- July 8, 2026
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Preschool Storytime
At preschool storytime, we sing songs and do action rhymes, read up to four stories, and play percussion instruments. Storytime is 30 - 45 minutes long and is designed for ages 3 and up.
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The Topsham Sharing Table
FREE PRODUCE from local farms for anyone who needs it. Help yourself to what you need and leave the rest for others. Organized by the Merrymeeting Gleaners, a project of the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program. First come, first served, while supplies last.
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Dan Snyder Reception
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- July 9, 2026
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Baby & Me
Baby & Me gives your child the opportunity to hear lots of language while you spend time bonding together! Program lasts about 15-20 minutes, and is designed for babies ages birth up to 23 months.
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Music & Rhyme Time
At each Music & Rhyme Time we sing songs, dance and play instruments to a guitar accompaniment, participate in action rhymes, and read one short story. Each lively and fun session lasts about 20-40 minutes and is designed for two-year-olds and their grownup!
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Toddler Craft
The two-year-olds are in charge at this art and craft time designed to let their imaginations run wild. Some sessions will consist of different art supplies to try in free-form play, while some sessions will have a more structured activity. This program starts right after Music & Rhyme time each week.
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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Drop-In Legos
Come build a brick masterpiece with our Lego collection! Ages 4 and up with a grownup!
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The TPL Author Interview Series with Matt Cost
Join local author, Matt Cost, in conversation with some of your favorite authors. Int his session Matt will be conversing with mystery and crime author, Kate Flora.
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- July 10, 2026
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Movement Morning
Crawling, jumping, balancing, riding trikes, and more! Join us for some active play in the big meeting room! Ages 2-3 with a grownup.
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Nintendo Switch Club
Nintendo Switch Club, Fridays, 1:30 –5:45 p.m.: Calling all teen gamers! Join us for an afternoon of fun, friends, and Nintendo Switch action. Whether you’re racing in Mario Kart, smashing it up in Super Smash Bros., or teaming up in Splatoon, we’ve got three in-house Switch consoles and plenty of games to go around. Drop in anytime, no experience needed. Just bring your game face and get ready to level up your Friday!
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Romantasy Book Club
Join us for our Romantasy Book Club! Part fantasy, part romance, a LOT of fun – this after hours book club is intended for adults aged 18 or older. Meets monthly on the first Friday at 5:45. No registration required, come as you are and see if this is the book group for you. This month we w8ill discuss When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker
TBA.
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- July 11, 2026
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Saturday Morning VolunTeens
Teens ages 14 and up are invited to join our Saturday Morning VolunTeen Program! Work together with other teens to design and run awesome community events like mini golf in the library, cookie decorating, Movie Saturdays, and more… all through the Teen Room. You’ll also help with cool projects and essential library tasks like shelving, shelf-reading, book displays, and even help with collection development. Earn volunteer hours, build leadership skills, and make the library a better place… all while having fun!
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Great Books Discussion
Great Books meets once a month on the second Saturday. We are ALWAYS looking for new members! For more information email emma@topshamlibrary.org.
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- July 13, 2026
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4H presents: To the Moon
Explore what it takes to live and work as a team during space missions! Through hands-on engineering challenges, learn to solve problems, communicate under pressure, and successfully land on the moon. Open to middle school youth. This is a series program designed to build on knowledge progressively throughout the weeks, sign up required for all four weeks.
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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- July 14, 2026
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Read to Topsham Police Department's Comfort Dog Garver
Want to practice your reading skills with a GREAT listener? Want some (optional) doggy snuggles? Come read to Garver(an English Labrador)! If there are a lot of friends reading, we will have 5-minute turns. Designed for ages 3 and up.
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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Preschool Art
Designed for 3-5 year olds, we will learn about different kinds of art and try out different art styles and supplies. Caregivers are requested to stay nearby, in case your preschooler needs assistance.
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Kids Art Club (ages 7 - 12)
Calling young art lovers! This club is designed for 7-12year olds and will allow young artists to experiment and learn about different art styles and try out new forms of arts and crafts. Weekly from 4-5 on Tuesdays.
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- July 15, 2026
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Preschool Storytime
At preschool storytime, we sing songs and do action rhymes, read up to four stories, and play percussion instruments. Storytime is 30 - 45 minutes long and is designed for ages 3 and up.
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The Topsham Sharing Table
FREE PRODUCE from local farms for anyone who needs it. Help yourself to what you need and leave the rest for others. Organized by the Merrymeeting Gleaners, a project of the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program. First come, first served, while supplies last.
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Write! A Roundtable Writers’ Group for Teens
Anyone can write, but are you a writer? or want to be one? Come explore the craft of creative writing. Expand your skills at building characters, worlds, plots, and twists. Develop your ability to give and take feedback. Learn what makes stories sell. And have fun!
Drop in and see if this is for you. No experience necessary. Open to all interested teens.
Sessions will be facilitated by M E Williams. Margaret has been writing all her life—from school assignments, to business memos, to website content, marketing brochures, and most recently to Middle Grade fiction. She taught college marketing and writing-for-business courses, before working a few years at a startup multimedia company. Her first story, a holiday chapter book, received honorable mention in an unpublished manuscript competition. She is now seeking representation to sell her debut Middle Grade fantasy novel, while working on her next book. She says, “I can’t make you a writer—that’s something you have to do yourself. But writers help writers, and I can help you on your journey.”
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Tween & Teen Taste Club
Join us for some informal chatting about books/music/movies/games AND a chance to taste and rate every flavor of Oreo we can get our hands on! Ages 12-17, sign up required so we know how many Oreos to buy!
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Library Board of Trustees Meeting
All Trustees meetings are open to the public.
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- July 16, 2026
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Baby & Me
Baby & Me gives your child the opportunity to hear lots of language while you spend time bonding together! Program lasts about 15-20 minutes, and is designed for babies ages birth up to 23 months.
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Music & Rhyme Time
At each Music & Rhyme Time we sing songs, dance and play instruments to a guitar accompaniment, participate in action rhymes, and read one short story. Each lively and fun session lasts about 20-40 minutes and is designed for two-year-olds and their grownup!
-
Toddler Craft
The two-year-olds are in charge at this art and craft time designed to let their imaginations run wild. Some sessions will consist of different art supplies to try in free-form play, while some sessions will have a more structured activity. This program starts right after Music & Rhyme time each week.
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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Drop-In Legos
Come build a brick masterpiece with our Lego collection! Ages 4 and up with a grownup!
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Jane Austen Spills the Tea
Come for tea with this immersive program bringing history to life through Regency era etiquette, practices, and delicious period-inspired sweets (Gluten-free and vegan options available), served with a side of gossip from Jane Austen's life and letters! Lena Ruth Yasutake, who has been an educator for over 20 years will present this program in full Regency costume. Participants may come in costume, but it is not required. Register by emailing emma@topshamlibrary.org, calling the library, or stopping at the front desk. Registration required so we have enough tea! When registering please inform us of any allergies.
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- July 17, 2026
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Nintendo Switch Club
Nintendo Switch Club, Fridays, 1:30 –5:45 p.m.: Calling all teen gamers! Join us for an afternoon of fun, friends, and Nintendo Switch action. Whether you’re racing in Mario Kart, smashing it up in Super Smash Bros., or teaming up in Splatoon, we’ve got three in-house Switch consoles and plenty of games to go around. Drop in anytime, no experience needed. Just bring your game face and get ready to level up your Friday!
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- July 18, 2026
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Saturday Morning VolunTeens
Teens ages 14 and up are invited to join our Saturday Morning VolunTeen Program! Work together with other teens to design and run awesome community events like mini golf in the library, cookie decorating, Movie Saturdays, and more… all through the Teen Room. You’ll also help with cool projects and essential library tasks like shelving, shelf-reading, book displays, and even help with collection development. Earn volunteer hours, build leadership skills, and make the library a better place… all while having fun!
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Stitching Together
Join this knitting and crocheting group that meets monthly. Come and work on your latest project, share patterns, check out the library's knitting and crocheting resources. All abilities welcome!
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- July 20, 2026
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4H presents: To the Moon
Explore what it takes to live and work as a team during space missions! Through hands-on engineering challenges, learn to solve problems, communicate under pressure, and successfully land on the moon. Open to middle school youth. This is a series program designed to build on knowledge progressively throughout the weeks, sign up required for all four weeks.
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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Teen Art Hangout: Sketch and Snack
Calling all teen artists, doodlers, comic book lovers, and manga fans! Join us for a creative hangout where you can draw, design, and share your art in a fun, relaxed space. We’ll have supplies, snacks, and good vibes, plus a mini gallery to display your work in our teen room! Whether you're into sketching superheroes, crafting kawaii characters, or just love to doodle, this is your space to create and connect.
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- July 21, 2026
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Read to Therapy Dog Chai
Want to practice your reading skills with a GREAT listener? Want some (optional) doggy snuggles? Come read to Chai(a toy poodle)! If there are a lot of friends reading, we will have 5-minute turns. Designed for ages 3 and up.
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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Preschool Art
Designed for 3-5 year olds, we will learn about different kinds of art and try out different art styles and supplies. Caregivers are requested to stay nearby, in case your preschooler needs assistance.
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Kids Art Club (ages 7 - 12)
Calling young art lovers! This club is designed for 7-12year olds and will allow young artists to experiment and learn about different art styles and try out new forms of arts and crafts. Weekly from 4-5 on Tuesdays.
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- July 22, 2026
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Preschool Storytime
At preschool storytime, we sing songs and do action rhymes, read up to four stories, and play percussion instruments. Storytime is 30 - 45 minutes long and is designed for ages 3 and up.
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The Topsham Sharing Table
FREE PRODUCE from local farms for anyone who needs it. Help yourself to what you need and leave the rest for others. Organized by the Merrymeeting Gleaners, a project of the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program. First come, first served, while supplies last.
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Crafternoon: Air Clay
Come make something out of air clay! Ages 4-17 – younger kids will craft at kids art tables, older kids (12 and up) will craft in the teen room. While supplies last.
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- July 23, 2026
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Baby & Me
Baby & Me gives your child the opportunity to hear lots of language while you spend time bonding together! Program lasts about 15-20 minutes, and is designed for babies ages birth up to 23 months.
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Music & Rhyme Time
At each Music & Rhyme Time we sing songs, dance and play instruments to a guitar accompaniment, participate in action rhymes, and read one short story. Each lively and fun session lasts about 20-40 minutes and is designed for two-year-olds and their grownup!
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Toddler Craft
The two-year-olds are in charge at this art and craft time designed to let their imaginations run wild. Some sessions will consist of different art supplies to try in free-form play, while some sessions will have a more structured activity. This program starts right after Music & Rhyme time each week.
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Tech Help
Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.
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Drop-In Legos
Come build a brick masterpiece with our Lego collection! Ages 4 and up with a grownup!
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The TPL Author Interview Series with Matt Cost
Join local author, Matt Cost, in conversation with some of your favorite authors. Int his session Matt will be conversing with MYSTERY author, Jule Selbo.
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- July 24, 2026
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Baby Dance Party
We will dim the lights and have some disco ball lights and fun music! Dance party is 30 minutes long and is for ages 1-2 and family members.
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Family Dance Party
Darkened room, disco lights, fun music! Wear whatever makes you feel like dancing (costume, fancy outfit, whatever!) and come have a dance party! Dance party is 30 minutes long, and is designed for families of all ages.
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Nintendo Switch Club
Nintendo Switch Club, Fridays, 1:30 –5:45 p.m.: Calling all teen gamers! Join us for an afternoon of fun, friends, and Nintendo Switch action. Whether you’re racing in Mario Kart, smashing it up in Super Smash Bros., or teaming up in Splatoon, we’ve got three in-house Switch consoles and plenty of games to go around. Drop in anytime, no experience needed. Just bring your game face and get ready to level up your Friday!
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