Happy 2018!

New Year’s Eve

Come ring in the “noon” year at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse with entertainment, a dance party and New Year’s Eve celebration from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. today.

The celebration keeps bedtime in mind with countdown and a toast with sparkling juice at noon.

The event is free with zoo admission.

Canastota Public Library

Stop in the library for the Orphan Artwork Sate during January to benefit the Dolly Parton Imagination Library.

Canastota Public Library will be closed on Jan. 1 for the celebration of the New Year.

The library now has Canastota Toots from 1920-2007 available digitally.

Oneida Library

Oneida Public Library will be closed Monday, Jan. 1 to celebrate the New Year. The library will be open as usual on Tuesday, Jan. 2.

On Tuesday, Jan. 2 at 7:30 p.m., Youth Services Coordinator Megan Gillander hosts a reception for student artists who contributed their artwork for consideration in a library mascot contest. She will announce the winning design at the reception .

Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 8 and 9 from 9:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. AARP trained instructors offer a two-day classroom defensive driving course for potential discounts on car insurance. To register, call Bob Fish at (315) 3630455.

Junior book club

The Wild and Wonderful Readers junior book club will hold its next meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 2 at 3:30 p.m. in the Cazenovia Public Library Story Garden Room. The group will discuss Sharon Draper’s “Out of My Mind,” a 2012 novel that spent two years on the New York Times best-seller list.

The junior book club is open