After 3.5 years of planning, designing, and constructing Longview Transit will hold a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Official Grand Opening of the City of Longview Transit’s Transfer Center at the Longview Multimodal Transportation Center at 10:50 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 4. The initial application to TxDOT for Intercity Bus Funding to construct a Transfer Center in the same complex as Amtrak and Greyhound was submitted in February 2016. The completion of the Transfer Center places transit riders in proximity of other transportation providers and allowed for service expansion in Longview with the addition of a new route.

Children ages 0-5, along with their caregivers, join us every Monday at 10:30 AM for early exposure to music! Have fun singing, dancing, listening to a story, and interacting with our new instruments! Program lasts about 30 minutes. Thanks to a grant from an anonymous donor, we have a brand new digital piano to accompany our story times! We also have new hand drums, triangles, xylophones, and harmonicas to share and learn about, as well as all the wonderful instruments we used last year. So come check them out!

Suggested for children ages 0-2. We welcome parents and caregivers of infants and toddlers to come sing songs, and popular nursery rhymes, together! A simple story geared towards the children's age group will be read aloud. Physical interaction is extremely important in the early stages of child development, and this story time not only encourages adult/child interaction, but also builds the healthy habit of reading aloud to your child. Due to the short attention spans of this young age group, this story time will last about 20 minutes, with time for caregivers to socialize together afterwards while children play with toys that are provided. Story time begins promptly every Tuesday at 10:30 AM!

FREE tutoring for ages 5-13 every Tuesday from 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM! If your child is struggling with their homework or understanding what they are doing in class, just bring your child's homework, along with any detailed instructions from their teacher(s), and our qualified librarians will be glad to help!

Suggested for children ages 3-5. Young children will enjoy singing along and interacting with Library staff while building their educational foundation! Story time opens with a time of singing beloved childhood songs and nursery rhymes, followed by a newly-published book being read aloud. Children will then enjoy activities and crafts geared towards helping them to imagine, create, and grow! This story time lasts about 30 minutes. Story time begins promptly every Wednesday at 10:30 AM!

Chess sets will be available for players of all ages to come and play inside the Moeschle Room! A chess lesson will be given at 3:30 PM & 5:00 PM if you have ever wanted to learn or need a refresher. Chess will be available to play from 3:30 PM - 5:30PM.

To help celebrate Longview’s 150 Year Sesquicentennial, the Library will be recording patron memories to digitize and put onto our Longview 150 Stories Podcast! These memories will be available online throughout the Sesquicentennial for everyone to enjoy. Head to LongviewTexas.gov/150Stories to find out the exact details. If you don’t have the equipment to record your memories, call (903) 237-1346 to speak with Cassie and schedule an appointment to come in and have us help record them for you. Dates to record are November 7, 13, and 19. There will be 30 minute time slots between the hours of 10:00 AM- 12:00 PM and 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM. Future dates in December.

Join us on Thursday for Family Game Night! Open to families of all ages, bring everyone in for fun with classic games such as Monopoly, Twister, Life, UNO, puzzles, and more! Games provided. Thursdays from 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM. For more information, please call (903) 237-1345.

Come try your hand at a variety of minute-to-win-it games set-up around the Moeschle Room. This is a come & go program which will run 3:30-5:30PM. *Warning* You may look rather silly competing in some of the games!

STOP the BLEED is national campaign led by the federal government to better prepare the public to save lives. Victims can quickly die from uncontrolled bleeding, within 5 to 10 minutes, so the campaign raises awareness of basic actions to stop life threatening bleeding following everyday emergencies and man-made and natural disasters. Similar to how the general public learns and performs CPR, the idea is that the public must learn proper bleeding control techniques, including how to use their hands, dressings, and tourniquets.

Suggested for children ages 0-2. We welcome parents and caregivers of infants and toddlers to come sing songs, and popular nursery rhymes, together! A simple story geared towards the children's age group will be read aloud. Physical interaction is extremely important in the early stages of child development, and this story time not only encourages adult/child interaction, but also builds the healthy habit of reading aloud to your child. Due to the short attention spans of this young age group, this story time will last about 20 minutes, with time for caregivers to socialize together afterwards while children play with toys that are provided. Story time begins promptly every Tuesday at 10:30 AM!

To help celebrate Longview’s 150 Year Sesquicentennial, the Library will be recording patron memories to digitize and put onto our Longview 150 Stories Podcast! These memories will be available online throughout the Sesquicentennial for everyone to enjoy. Head to LongviewTexas.gov/150Stories to find out the exact details. If you don’t have the equipment to record your memories, call (903) 237-1346 to speak with Cassie and schedule an appointment to come in and have us help record them for you. Dates to record are November 7, 13, and 19. There will be 30 minute time slots between the hours of 10:00 AM- 12:00 PM and 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM. Future dates in December.

Suggested for children ages 3-5. Young children will enjoy singing along and interacting with Library staff while building their educational foundation! Story time opens with a time of singing beloved childhood songs and nursery rhymes, followed by a newly-published book being read aloud. Children will then enjoy activities and crafts geared towards helping them to imagine, create, and grow! This story time lasts about 30 minutes. Story time begins promptly every Wednesday at 10:30 AM!

City Council meetings are held at 5:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Thursday of the month at 300 W. Cotton St. in the City Hall Council Chamber.

Council Meetings are televised live on CityView Municipal Television. These meetings are also rebroadcast for one week following the original meeting at 6:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m. and 3 a.m.

All meetings can also be seen online live or on demand at CityView Municipal Television.

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Join us every Saturday morning from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM for LEGOs @ the Library! A children's book is read aloud, then children build their creations with a new theme each time. Children of all ages are welcome to build! Larger Duplo bricks are provided for toddlers. At the end of each session, everyone’s creations are put in the Children's Department's display case until the next LEGOs @ the Library. Feel free to bring your friends and family by to show them what you built! This come-and-go event requires no registration, and you don’t even have to bring your own bricks. We have plenty to share, so just show up in the Children's Department on Saturday morning!

If you're looking for a great, active book club to join, look no further! The Diverse Readers Book Club, formed of library staff and other diverse men and women, usually meets on the third Saturday of each month at 2:00 PM to discuss their chosen book(s), and they would love to have you! Please call (903) 237-1351 and ask to speak with Christian for more info. Or go on our webpage to see the current book list schedule!

Join us on Thursday for Family Game Night! Open to families of all ages, bring everyone in for fun with classic games such as Monopoly, Twister, Life, UNO, puzzles, and more! Games provided. Thursdays from 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM. For more information, please call (903) 237-1345.

Please go to the attched link to make payment for the class through Strike. This is the only avenue of payment at this time.

During this special LEGOs day members from the Longview Technocrats and Boomtown Engineer robotics teams will be demonstrating the ideal cities and robot games they have programmed & constructed out of LEGOs! This is a great opportunity for kids to learn about STEM and Robotics activities at an early age. 10AM-12PM.

This will be the last day to turn in any items for the Food For Fines programs. Head to the attached website link to find out more!

STOP the BLEED is national campaign led by the federal government to better prepare the public to save lives. Victims can quickly die from uncontrolled bleeding, within 5 to 10 minutes, so the campaign raises awareness of basic actions to stop life threatening bleeding following everyday emergencies and man-made and natural disasters. Similar to how the general public learns and performs CPR, the idea is that the public must learn proper bleeding control techniques, including how to use their hands, dressings, and tourniquets.

Music & Movement, Babygarten Story Time, Tutoring Tuesdays, Early Learning Journeys Story Time, Discovery Kids at Broughton, Family Game Night, and LEGO’s will take a break for the week. Normal rotation of events will start back up on December 2!

Join us for Thanksgiving Dinner from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 28. This FREE community event will be hosted by District 3 Councilman Wray Wade and will be held at the Broughton Recreation Center. For more information or to volunteer, please call Councilman Wade at 903-399-3200.

Music & Movement, Babygarten Story Time, Tutoring Tuesdays, Early Learning Journeys Story Time, Discovery Kids at Broughton, Family Game Night, and LEGO’s will take a break for the week. Normal rotation of events will start back up on December 2!

Music & Movement, Babygarten Story Time, Tutoring Tuesdays, Early Learning Journeys Story Time, Discovery Kids at Broughton, Family Game Night, and LEGO’s will take a break for the week. Normal rotation of events will start back up on December 2!