• Second Lady’s 2025 Summer Reading Challenge

    Portville Free Library

    Embark on wild adventures, get lost in imagination, and open new worlds of learning and discovery when you accept the Second Lady’s 2025 Summer Reading Challenge! The challenge is open to children in grades K – 8, from now until September 5th. To participate, download the Summer Reading Challenge Tracker and read 12 books of your choice. […]

  • Don Kruszk – Omnipuppets

    Portville Free Library

    Thursday, July 23-  Don Kruszk will be back with his “Omnipuppets” for a new show- “Bonnie’s Brachiosaurus” at 6:00.  Come join the fun!!

  • Traveling Fossil Kits

    Monday, July 27- Traveling Fossil Kits Great for exploring paleontology, dinosaurs, building vocabulary and just plain fun with fossils.

  • Step Back in Time with the Portville Historical Society

    Portville Free Library

    Thursday, August 6- Come step back in time and see what a child’s life was like.  Over 160 years ago there were no busses or cars, no cafeteria, paper was scarce and you had one teacher for all grades 1-6.  Children used the outhouse when they had to go!  But, there was always  time for […]

  • The Day the Balls Went on Strike

    Local author, Gia George MacCartney, will be at the library on November 14 to read her self-published book The Day the Balls Went on Strike.  Gia is a 2013 PCS graduate and is presently teaching Physical Education in Wellsville.  Trying to read to her students monthly, she discovered that there weren’t many books available for […]