St John’s County children will soon have a new place to play, gather, and read as construction on a new public library began on Tuesday. Officials say this will help alleviate some of the overcrowding at surrounding libraries.
“The northwest section of the county is just mushrooming. Anything north of 210, really. Our library, currently in the Julington Creek area, is the busiest branch that we have,” Debra Rhodes Gibson, Director of St. John’s County Libraries, said.
County Libraries Director Deborah Rhodes Gibson said the appeal of a library surrounded by new parks is that their findings show the same residents are utilizing both. The future facility will serve several purposes…