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Building strength and confidence with fencing

ENFIELD — The study of fencing offers its young students a unique opportunity to build skills that will help their future selves. The New England Blades, a new fencing club in Enfield, focuses on developing young athletes into high-level fencers who can use their skills outside the fencing world.

Enfield’s public libraries to celebrate 150 years

ENFIELD — Libraries in many forms have been around for ages with the world’s oldest known library founded in the 7th century BC.

In the United States, the first free public library was established in 1833 in Peterborough, New Hampshire with the support of a municipal tax. But it wasn’t until 1874 that Enfield opened its first association library. And in 1896, the Enfield Library Association entrusted its collection to the Enfield Free Library, Enfield’s first publicly funded library.