columbia county rural library district

A bill that would make it more difficult to dissolve a library district in Washington state is making its way through the legislature.

After a rural library district was at risk of being dissolved last year, Washington lawmakers are debating how that process could be improved – and not leave people out of the vote.

A measure that could have dissolved a small library district in southeastern Washington is no longer heading to a vote.

A measure to dissolve a small library district in southeastern Washington is blocked – for now – from the November ballot.

A small library in southeastern Washington could be the first in the country to dissolve if a ballot measure is approved this November. But several residents want to keep the proposition from even making it to the ballot.

A library in southeastern Washington could be the first in the country to dissolve. It all started with some people asking the library to get rid of or move several books. Now, voters will get to decide this November whether to keep their only library.