CARTHAGE, Mo. — The Carthage Public Library is celebrating two milestones — adding new space while repairing the damage caused by a fire sprinkler system failure to some of its oldest space back in July.
Members of the library board, the Steadley Trust Advisory Board and some of the groups that donated to the project gathered with the library’s director, Julie Yockey, and her staff on Tuesday to cut a ribbon and celebrate the completion of the Steadley Family Legacy Center, a new building on the Carthage library grounds dedicated to learning skills and making things.
The library staff is also celebrating the near completion of the repairs to the original Andrew Carnegie-built section of the library after an estimated 150,000 gallons of water poured from a failed fire…
