Friends of the Edison Public Library

We have just heard the news from our volunteer handling registration for the Spelling Bee that we now reached our limit of 100 applicants for Division 2 (Grades 4-5). We had previously announced that Division 1 was full. This unfortunately means that if you have not already applied for your child to take part, it [...]

We have just heard the news from our volunteer handling registration for the Spelling Bee that we have already exceeded our limit of 100 applicants for Division 1 (Grades 2-3). This unfortunately means that if you have not already applied for your 2nd or 3rd grader to take part, it is now too late. As [...]

Friends of the Edison Public Library Is Proud To Announce: Edison Town-Wide Spelling Bee 2012 Saturday, March 31, 2012 J.P. Stevens High School Snow Date: Saturday, April 21, 2012 Join us for our Spelling Bee for Grades 2-5 For more details, please see our Spelling Bee page.

Another Fall Booksale has been and gone, and we’re pleased to announce that it was a success! Despite fears that fewer donations, the poor economy, more people reading e-books, families going away for Fall recess and the lack of coverage by the local press would result in a very disappointing bottom-line, we were heartened by [...]

Print this flyer (PDF Format) for our forthcoming booksale (Sat/Sun November 5/6), cut out the included coupon for 50 cents off your purchase (only 1 per customer) and put the information on your refrigerator so you don’t forget. There are two on a page, so keep one and give one to a friend. See you [...]

Our Fall Book Sale will take place Saturday and Sunday, November 5th and 6th, 2011. Here are the basic details: Saturday, Nov. 5, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, 12 noon – 4 p.m. North Edison Branch Library 777 Grove Avenue, Edison (directions) Thousands of books in many categories – fiction & nonfiction, [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]