At Richford's Library, the Board Keeps Growing
A community message board at the Richford Public Library has quietly overflowed onto a second surface — and now, notes are answering each other across languages. Library staffer Colette Aubin-Roy is watching it happen.
RICHFORD, Vermont — Colette Aubin-Roy didn't reorganize the board on Sunday. She's not planning to.
The community message board at Richford Public Library filled up weeks ago. Staff pressed a painted drywall panel into service beside it. That one is filling up now too — and something new is happening on it.
"There's a question in French," Aubin-Roy said Sunday afternoon, gesturing toward a small cluster of notes near the center of the overflow panel, "and then two pins over, someone answered it in English."
She paused. "That's different."
Richford sits at the Vermont–Quebec border, a seam that RONA's formal recognition in 2036 has made official in ways the town is still quietly working out. The conversation on the drywall — unplanned, unprompted, growing on its own across a weekend — is a small thing. Aubin-Roy isn't calling it anything more than that.
But she acknowledged she may need to find a third surface before the week is out.