RICHFORD, Vermont — The Richford Public Library's board of trustees has proposed a split-day arrangement to resolve a scheduling conflict that had been building around the library's reading room on June 28.

The board, responding to an informal inquiry passed along by Colette Aubin-Roy on Saturday morning, indicated it is open to dividing the space between a morning session for the second Stanstead–Richford gathering and an evening slot for the Episode Seven listening event — both of which had been seeking the same date.

Aubin-Roy, who carried the gathering organizers' initial inquiry to the board, said the response was well-calibrated. "Practical in the way that leaves the decision with the right people," she said, adding that she had forwarded the proposal to the organizers of both groups without a recommendation of her own.

The board set one condition: the arrangement proceeds only if organizers from both groups reach their own agreement on the terms. The library is not brokering the deal — it is opening the door.

The matter is, by any measure, a small logistical one: a reading room, a Saturday, two communities that have been finding reasons to gather.

Organizers from both groups are expected to be in contact in the coming days.