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Job Opening: Library Clerk (part-time).  Variable shifts from 9 AM till 9 PM with some Saturday hours.  $8.65 per hour, up to 19 hours per week.   Interested candidates should provide an application and/or resume by Sept. 14, 2013 to: Ed Dunscombe, Director George F. Johnson Memorial Library 1001 Park St. Endicott NY 13760 Application is…

Our Good Sports (children entering grades 1-3) have had a great time learning about Winter, Hope, and other animals at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium this summer! Check out the link below to view our custom broadcast, and a reminder to all registered Good Sports participants that the Skype session with the aquarium will be at…

Did you see the article in Saturday’s Press & Sun Bulletin about our Tech Center? Don’t worry if you missed it. You can still check it out by clicking here.

Historian Tim Main will present his “Shadows on the Playground” talk at GFJ on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 PM in our Scott (basement) Meeting Room.  Tim bills this as “an informative presentation defining the ancestry and historical background of Endicott’s Mersereau Park.”  His talks always come with lots of photos, insight and humor.  Don’t…

From GFJ’s Digital Archives: “The Great Wilno” aka “The Human Cannonball” is fired from a cannon 250 feet into the air (and thankfully into his net) during the annual E-J Workers Labor Day celebrations. The event took place in front of an estimated 50,000 spectators at En-Joie Park (behind U-E High School) on Sept,. 2,…

Jane Yolen, author of over 300 popular children’s books, will visit Binghamton on Tuesday, May 11, 2010.  Sponsored by the Binghamton Area Reading Council, the agenda includes registration & cash bar (5-6 PM); Buffet dinner (6-7 PM); Presentation titled “Poetry for Children and the Three Rs: Reveal, Revision, and Reinvention” (7-8 PM); and door prizes…