CACHE COUNTY – Among the budget cuts being proposed by Cache County Executive George Daines for 2026 is defunding the Cache County Library at 15 North Main in Providence to the tune of $250,000 a year, which would effectively shutter the facility.

But the library’s small staff and patrons aren’t going quietly into oblivion. Instead, they are fighting back.

Even before Daines announced his tentative list of budget cut on Oct. 14, the library’s staff hosted a letter-writing party to members of the Cache County Council on Oct. 11.

More than 250 people participated in that four-hour session and another more than 1,200 people sent responses online, according to Brynnan Sainsbury, director of the Cache County Library.

Whether those messages will fall on deaf ears at the council level – where

See Full Page