This local news blog is currently being published from Moore’s Memorial Library in Christiana while the reporter continues to miss a home/office computer.
While not at all convenient, tapping away in this old stone building seems just right, as the solid Bridge Street building was once the home of a local newspaper, the Christiana Ledger.
The news blog is not for sale; it’s a free community service by a civic journalist.
The library building IS for sale, and library director Claudia Roun says the board of directors would love to find a buyer to help finance the library’s move down the street into the larger, newly renovated old Hamilton Bank building.
Mary Myers, an Octorara graduate and Sadsbury Township native, is the architect for the project. The big move is scheduled for March. Read about the project or contribute through the library’s Web site at www.christianalibrary.org.
The piece of local history on a .33-acre lot is for sale through Robin Coffroth of Barr Realty, 610-593-2100. Current zoning would allow an office, day care or similar low-impact use, or the building could be renovated into a single-family home. The asking price is $169,900.
As an historical note, the defunct Chesapeake Publishing Company borrowed the Christiana Ledger name while publishing the Parkesburg Post/Christiana Ledger until it closed the Ledger with six weekly newspapers and filed for bankruptcy several years ago.
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