Newsday

US decision to limit Canadian access to border-straddling library prompts outpouring of emotion

STANSTEAD, Quebec — For more than 100 years, people in Stanstead, Quebec have been able to walk into Derby Line, Vermont to enter the border-straddling Haskell Free Library and Opera House – no ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

Locals decry plan to limit Canadian access to border-straddling Haskell Library

Penny Thomas of Newport protests a U.S. plan to restrict access to the Haskell Library, which straddles Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont, on Friday, March 21. U.S. Customs and Border ...
The Boston Globe

US to limit Canadian access to beloved cross-border library where Kristi Noem taunted hosts

Nearly two months after Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem made provocative comments at a library straddling the northern border that once symbolized the enduring friendship between the United ...
NPR

Locals feel a loss as the U.S. limits Canadian access to cross-border library

Straddling two countries, the historic Haskell Free Library and Opera House is unlike any other in the world. One half sits in Canada and the other half in the U.S. A thick black stripe runs across ...
MassLive

U.S. forces library on Vermont-Québec border to build new Canadian entrance

The Haskell Free Library & Opera House, a century-old beloved geographic oddity straddling the dividing line between the U.S. state of Vermont and the Canadian province of Québec has had longstanding ...
West Hawaii Today

US government blocks Canadian access to border-straddling library

U.S. authorities said on Friday they are closing Canadian access to a library straddling the Canada-U.S. border, drawing criticism from a Quebec town where people have long enjoyed easy entry to the ...
Hosted on MSN

Library on US-Canadian border feels effects of crackdown on movement

A library which straddles the US-Canadian border faces new restrictions on movement as the US administration moves to tighten border controls. For more than 100 years, people in Stanstead, Quebec in ...
WBUR

Trump's insults and tariffs strain relationships along the U.S.-Canadian border

A sign that says "Canada is not for sale" is nailed to a pole in Stanstead, Quebec, a block from the U.S.-Canada border crossing, on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (Zoe McDonald/Vermont Public) DERBY LINE, ...
VTDigger

After a famed Canadian author exits a U.S. tour, a Vermont library enters with an alternative

Bestselling Canadian mystery writer Louise Penny’s new book, “The Black Wolf,” features Vermont’s border-straddling Haskell Free Library and Opera House. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger When Canadian ...
The Washington Post

The tiny library caught in the middle of U.S.-Canada tensions

STANSTEAD, Quebec — For Sylvie Boudreau, it was only a matter of time. The retired Canadian border agent, watching from this quaint town on the border with Vermont, had grown increasingly alarmed as ...
Reuters

US government blocks Canadian access to border-straddling library

Canadians will need formal crossing to access library Stanstead criticizes closure as harming cross-border unity CBP cites illicit activity as reason for closure STANSTEAD, Quebec, March 21 (Reuters) ...