The Friends of the Ashland Library held its first-ever “drive buy” book sale on a warm Dec. 13. The group had 427 bundles available by category (Adult Fiction, Biography/Memoir, History/Politics, and so forth) and sold 229 bundles, for just over $1,200 in sales and donations, All proceed support library programming. Organized by Jan Poppendieck, her volunteers included: Mike Jones, Claire Goss, Christine Poirier, Melinda and Matt Shuhy, Judy and Aiden Javidpour, Paula Bonetti, Kelly Battles, Betsy and Dave Emberley, Cynthia Whitty, Kathy Goettel, Rob St. Germain and Brett Jackson. (Photos/Cynthia Whitty)