Marion School officials seek solutions after Flathead Library trustees discontinue book deliveries
Classrooms for the seventh- and eighth-grade students are in this building at Marion School. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Determined to retain access to the Flathead County Library, Marion School Board members are considering standing up a volunteer delivery service to keep the books flowing.
Marion School officials were left scrambling after library trustees in March terminated a book delivery contract — effective July 1 —with the district for financial reasons. For Marion patrons, located 21 miles away from the nearest branch in Kalispell, the service is their only realistic connection to the public library system, said Superintendent and Principal Julia Maxwell at a school board meeting on Wednesday.
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