<div dir="ltr">We will be closed on Monday. We are in the path of totality. The board gave me permission to close as early as Friday if people start pouring into town.<div><br>I have been to meetings with the emergency services for the county and they have been in contact with other towns in the path of previous eclipses. If the weather is predicted to be good, they expect people to begin coming to town on Friday. They said we should treat it like a blizzard. You should have everything you need to last 3-4 days because they predict the roads will be impassible. </div><div><br></div><div>Karen Moore</div><div>Forest-Jackson Public Library</div><div>102 W. Lima St., Forest, OH 45843</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 12:31 PM James Hill via OPLINLIST <<a href="mailto:oplinlist@lists.oplin.org">oplinlist@lists.oplin.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-2674456836954072095">
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Looking ahead to <a href="https://publicsafety.ohio.gov/home/news-and-events/all-events/ohio-total-solar-eclipse#:~:text=On%20Monday%2C%20April%208%2C%202024,a%20rare%20and%20spectacular%20event." title="https://publicsafety.ohio.gov/home/news-and-events/all-events/ohio-total-solar-eclipse#:~:text=On%20Monday%2C%20April%208%2C%202024,a%20rare%20and%20spectacular%20event." id="m_-2674456836954072095LPlnk567000" target="_blank">
April of 2024</a> and wondering what everyone has planned for the eclipse. Many of us are having flashbacks to 2017 and the great glasses debacle. We're trying to get ahead of that this time and have a boatload of sun blockers on order to hand out.</div>
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Chillicothe and southcentral Ohio are not in totality, but we're close enough that folks (me included) will want to drive west an hour to be in darkness. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline">I'd
like to give the entire staff the opportunity to go see this once in a lifetime event.</span> We're planning programs and education for the weeks leading up to, but have nothing planned on the day of the eclipse.
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Is anyone closing for the day? Half the day? Or in any other way curbing activities?</div>
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