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Resident urges library changes for seniors; sailing camp seeks $100,000 for new boats

Havre de Grace Mayor and City Council · April 21, 2026
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A longtime senior library patron urged Havre de Grace council to address noise and supervision at the public library that she says has driven seniors away. Separately, Captain Rick Wall updated the council on an 11-year sailing camp and requested help raising roughly $100,000 to replace boats.

At the citizens' comment period on April 20, Laura Hudson, 70, told the council she believes Havre de Grace’s library is failing senior patrons because a daycare operating inside has made the space too noisy and, in her view, inadequately supervised. "Seniors are disappearing all the time," Hudson said, describing puzzles and social activities disrupted by children and saying she asked library staff to intervene.

Hudson recounted…

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