It could have been the excellent weather. Or a different location this year.

But the Cole Library summer reading program kick-off attracted more than 123 people and had 66 youth or teenagers signed up for the summer reading program overall. According to Grace Chamberlain-Rowray, the attendance was much larger than 2024’s event.

If families were unable to attend, there is still time to sign up for the program by visiting the library’s circulation desk on the first floor. There’s also a number of programs for the summer reading program to come, including two weekly science, technology, engineering and math classes held Wednesday mornings that require pre-registering, story times and the Prancing Ponies concluding event in July 18.

Bubbles were one of the big draws for the event, with that station running out of bubble solution before the day was over.

With temperatures in the cool 70s through most of the morning, many of the events indoors for the kick-off moved to the outdoors of the library instead, including make your own snack mix and the music of Balderdash Ditty.