Arlyn Colby will speak at the Brown Bag Lunch program, Tuesday, November 9, at the Calhoun Memorial Library. The program will begin at 12 p.m. and will last about one hour. This program is free and open to the public.  

Barron County Master Gardener Carolyn Swanberg will discuss container gardening on Tuesday, Oct. 12. Ideas for how to create beautiful arrangements will be presented.

The Chetek Area Book Club will meet for an approximately hourlong discussion of “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent” by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 28, at Calhoun Memorial Library.

The Chetek Area Book Club is meeting in the library. This group meets at 7 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of the month.

The Chetek Area Book Club will meet for an approximately hour-long discussion of “The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry” by award-winning novelist and screenwriter Gabrielle Zevin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 27, at Calhoun Memorial Library.

The library doors are open. All services are available during regular business hours.

The Chetek Area Book Club will meet for an approximately hour-long discussion of “The Water Dancer” by author, Atlantic correspondent and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant Ta-Nehisi Coates at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 22, at Calhoun Memorial Library.

The Red Barn Theatre in Rice Lake is reopening after a year of renovations. Volunteers, friends and board members donated their time and talents guided by the leadership of Terry Wiesner, Boyd Stearns and Chris Olsen.

The latest entry in the White Vixen thriller series by local author David Tindell sends his protagonist, Air Force Special Operations officer Jo Ann Geary, to the top of Africa.