Tewksbury Leads Wilmington With 2 Days Left In Reading Rivals

TEWKSBURY, MA — Tewksbury holds a small lead in the Reading Rivals competition with Wilmington with two days remaining.

Tewksbury Public Library readers have logged 615,963 minutes, to Wilmington Memorial Library's 608,547, the Wilmington library said.

Both libraries logged over 150,000 minutes in the last week. In that time, Tewksbury expanded its lead from 3,397 minutes to 7,416.

The six-week competition ends Wednesday at noon.

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"Throughout the past couple weeks during our weekly Monday morning check ins, Tewksbury has almost always been in the lead. Then, Wilmington catches up quickly during the week and stays on top until the following week," Wilmington Memorial Library said. "Since we've been in the lead more often than not, we are POSITIVE all our patrons can read enough during the next two days to get us on top and keep us there until Wednesday!"

The winning town will win the "Reading Cup."

Residents of each town can register on Beanstack to read for their library: Tewksbury or Wilmington. You can log hours spent reading on Beanstack.

Both libraries have weekly prizes for participating patrons.

Christopher Huffaker can be reached at 412-265-8353 or [email protected].