The library invites new residents to a fun and educational library experience. The whole family is invited to learn about library staff, programs, and services. Items from our Library of Things will be on display as well as crafts, activities, and music. Be sure to take part in our collaborative mural to showcase our "New Resident Bookshelf".

Light refreshments will be provided.

Drop in, no registration required.

Come kickoff the new year with a ladies workout session followed by light refreshments!

Class is a 45 minute LIIT BURN class designed to "burn" out your muscles. Low impact & Low weights but high burn and high energy! Come prepared to sweat! Detox shots (non-alcoholic), organic wine and healthy bites will be served after class!

You will need a towel, mat & water. Space is limited so reserve your spot now!

The CNSC Book Club meets on the second Thursday of every month. Come join us this month to discuss Heart the Lover by Lily King. Hope you can make it!

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Book Description:

Our narrator understands good love stories – their secrets, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the rules.

She was in her senior year of college when star students Sam and Yash swept her into an intoxicating world of academic fervour, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. Their lives became quickly intertwined – with friendship but also with unpredictable passions and the intimations of first love.

Decades later, she is a successful writer, living a comfortable life with her husband and children, when a surprise visit brings the past crashing into the present, forcing her to confront the decisions and deceptions of her youth.

Written with the precision of poetry and the emotional tide of an epic, Heart the Lover is a celebration of literature and the life-long echoes of young love. This is King at her very best, affirming her as a masterful chronicler of the human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today.

Come join us to discuss Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan! We’ll also be having a cookie swap — bring a batch of cookies (store bought or homemade, whatever works!) and go home with an assortment from what everyone else has brought. See you there!

It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.

One of our most popular events is back! Join us as we celebrate the season and make a beautiful wreath for your home! Proceeds from this event will support our amazing township volunteer fire department. Wine and light snacks will be provided by Newcomers. Feel free to bring a friend!

All wreath supplies are provided to create a large wreath, just like the ones the fire department sells.

Please register and pay $20 per attendee via Meetup for this event. Newcomers will be paying the difference per attendee to the fire department! Can't wait to see you there!

Join us for book club to discuss The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston. Hope you can make it!

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For readers of Remarkably Bright Creatures and A Man Called Ove, a warm, life-affirming debut about a zany case of mistaken identity that allows a lonely old man one last chance to be part of a family.

‘Would you mind terribly, old boy, if I borrowed the rest of your life? I promise I’ll take excellent care of it.'

Frederick Fife was born with an extra helping of kindness in his heart. If he borrowed your car, he’d return it washed with a full tank of gas. The problem is there’s nobody left in Fred’s life to borrow from. At eighty-two, he’s desperately lonely, broke, and on the brink of homelessness. But Fred’s luck changes when, in a bizarre case of mistaken identity, he takes the place of grumpy Bernard Greer at the local nursing home. Now he has warm meals in his belly and a roof over his head—as long as his poker face is in better shape than his prostate and that his look-alike never turns up.

Denise Simms is stuck breathing the same disappointing air again and again. A middle-aged mom and caregiver at Bernard's facility, her crumbling marriage and daughter's health concerns are suffocating her joy for life. Wounded by her two-faced husband, she vows never to let a man deceive her again.

As Fred walks in Bernard’s shoes, he leaves a trail of kindness behind him, fueling Denise's suspicions about his true identity. When unexpected truths are revealed, Fred and Denise rediscover their sense of purpose and learn how to return a broken life to mint condition.

Bittersweet and remarkably perceptive, The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife is a hilarious, feel-good, clever novel about grief, forgiveness, redemption, and finding family.

Come hang out with the CNSC at Untied Brewing in New Providence! Your first drink is on us! We’ll also provide pizza.

This event is family-friendly but please only include adults in your RSVP. Can’t wait to see everyone there!