Monday, August 17, 2026

Exeter Public Library Wrapped Up Summer Reading

The Exeter Public Library recently wrapped up another successful summer reading program, encouraging local students to spend their summer immersed in books and reading. With assistance from the Nebraska Extension Office, students participated in the program and collectively read an impressive 13,100 minutes. The summer reading program provided students with the opportunity to keep their reading skills sharp over the summer while enjoying stories and exploring new books. The Exeter Public Library thanks all of the students who participated, as well as the Nebraska Extension Office for its support in making this year's summer reading program a success.





Friday, August 14, 2026

EMF Goes Back to School

 


The EMF district went back to school on Wednesday, August 12. Pictured above is all the staff members within the district.


Tuesday, August 11, 2026

What's New on the Library Shelves?

 Check out these new novels at the Exeter Public Library.

The Rom Com Collection by Lynn Painter


Novels include: Betting on You, The Do-Over, Better Than Thee Movies, and Nothing Like the Movies
















Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.









Fake Skating by Lynn Painter
Growing up, Dani couldn’t help but follow around the adorable son of her mom’s best friend. Funny, kind of nerdy, and a little soft, Alec was always down to hang with Dani when they were little. From play dates to sneaking into movie theaters, Dani and Alec were inseparable. Until Dani moved away. Alec promised they’d stay in touch—except, they didn’t.

Flash forward and Dani is back in Minnesota for her senior year, she and her mom living with her grandfather. Dealing with the fallout of her parents’ devastating divorce, Dani wouldn’t mind a nerd-out with the cozy and comforting Alec (and maybe a chance to confront him on his MIA status for all these years). But teenage Alec is nothing like the kid Dani remembers. He’s a hockey star in a town where hockey players are worshiped as gods. Dani’s place as his shadow has been taken up by drooling female fans…and he
loves it.

Dani is resolved to ice out her former best friend until an unlikely series of events brings them together—and forces them to fake being a couple. Once stuck together, the former childhood sweethearts begin to reconnect, unearth complicated family secrets, and face their true feelings towards each other…including the real reason Alec has been pushing Dani away all these years.
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart.

Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without.

For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart.

When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past.

Told over the course of six years and one weekend,
Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic story of love and the people and choices that mark us forever.


Monday, August 10, 2026

Exeter Swimming Pool Remaining Hours

As summer winds down, check out the updated hours of operation for the Exeter Swimming Pool.

August 1-11 Regular Pool Hours: 

  • Sunday-Fridays: 1:30-5:30pm and 6:30-8:30pm
  • Wednesdays: Late Swim 6:30-10pm
  • Saturdays: 1:30-5:30pm
August 12-23 School Year Hours
  • Monday-Thursdays: After School-7:30pm
  • Fridays: 2:30-8:30pm
Weekend Hours
  • Saturdays: 1:30-5:30pm
  • Sundays: 1:30-5:30pm and 6:30-8:30pm