Friends of the Edison Public Library

Friends of the Edison Public Library will once again have a booth at the Metuchen Country Fair on Saturday, October 1st, from 10am-4pm. Come say Hi, find out what The Friends have been up to, what’s coming up, grab some give-aways, play a game and enter our free drawing for one of two baskets of [...]

A while back, Edison Public Library held a very successful Family Day at the Clara Barton Branch library. Oriented towards children, but involving the entire family, there was face-painting, crafts, and other activities. Many people came who had not set foot in the library before, found out about all the different services available, and joined [...]

We will have more stories and photos from our first town wide spelling bee held on Saturday, April 30 to come soon, but for now, we wanted to proudly announce our winners:   Senior Division 1st Place/Gold Medal: Edward Hu 2nd Place/Silver Medal: Samuel Chen 3rd Place/Bronze Medal: Joyce Wang Junior Division 1st Place/Gold Medal: [...]

It has just been brought to our attention that some spelling bee confirmation e-mails going to yahoo.com e-mail accounts may not have reached their recipients. IF YOUR CHECK HAS BEEN CASHED,  but you did not receive a confirmation e-mail (they were sent about a month ago), please come to Woodrow Wilson Middle School, 50 Woodrow [...]

We have two important pieces of news regarding our Town Wide Spelling Bee: Firstly, all 200 available places were filled. The successful applicants should have already received a confirmation via e-mail (or regular mail, if no e-mail address was given) with further information. We are working as quickly as we can to return checks to [...]

Just a quick reminder that the application period for our Town Wide Spelling Bee is now closed. When we decided to run a spelling bee, we had no idea whether anyone would be interested in it. The response has been phenomenal. We had to close Division 1 before the March 25 deadline, because we had [...]

This is the first time we have run this event, and so we had no idea how much interest there would be in a town wide spelling bee. The response has far exceeded our expectations! Due to the physical limitations of our venue (Woodrow Wilson Middle School), we had to limit the number of children [...]

The published word lists for our 2011 town wide spelling bee are now online in PDF format for you to print. Here is the word list for Division 1 (Grades 1-3), and here is the word list for Division 2 (Grades 4 and 5). Remember that for each division, ten of these words will be [...]

Just a quick update to let you know that we will be publishing word lists for our Spelling Bee this coming Tuesday, March 22. The words on the word lists will be used for the first two rounds only. Round one (written) will consist of twenty words, ten of which will come from the published [...]

Friends of the Edison Library Spelling Bee Saturday, April 30, 2011 Woodrow Wilson Middle School The Friends of the Edison Public Library is sponsoring its first town wide spelling bee on Saturday, April 30, 2011, at Woodrow Wilson Middle School at 50 Woodrow Wilson Drive, Edison. Our purpose is to support literacy among the children [...]