Middletown Library Wins APP's Readers Choice Award

I don't know how many people noticed this but several days ago the Asbury Park Press released the names of the winners in their annual Reader's Choice Award contest for 2013.

Despite the closure of its satellite branches and of all the nonsense, cutthroat bickering and name calling towards its now "retired" Director Susan O'Neal, by certain members of the Middletown Township Committee (Fiore & Murray) and Library Trustees (Brock Siebert, Michael Vitkansis, Rob Cordiano) that have no business being trustees, the Middletown Library was named the best library in Monmouth County by the readers of the Asbury Park Press.

With this Reader's Choice Award, I think a big dose of kudos should thrown in Susan O'Neal's direction. She steered the library for the past several years and it was her leadership that made the library what it is today; The best Library in all of Monmouth County.

It's a shame that the greed and vindictiveness of the Township Committee lead to systematic dismantling of the previous leadership of the library board of trustees and the departure of Susan  O'Neal.