Friends of the Brown Library event set for weekend

Published 1:27 am Thursday, April 18, 2013

When the new Saturday Market season begins Saturday, market-goers will be able to buy more than produce, jams, jellies and baked goods. Used books will be available.

While many folks know about the Friends of the Brown Library’s annual book sale in January to benefit Brown Library, fewer folks know the nonprofit organization conducts book sales during the Saturday Market season which runs from April through October. The book sale returns to the Washington waterfront for its sixth year.

So far, the Friends of the Brown Library has taken in $8,251.64 from its Saturday Market sales. For the upcoming season, prices remain at $2 for a hardcover book, $1 for a quality paperback and other paperbacks for 50 cents each.

About Mike Voss

Mike Voss is the contributing editor at the Washington Daily News. He has a daughter and four grandchildren. Except for nearly six years he worked at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., in the early to mid-1990s, he has been at the Daily News since April 1986.
Journalism awards:
• Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service, 1990.
• Society of Professional Journalists: Sigma Delta Chi Award, Bronze Medallion.
• Associated Press Managing Editors’ Public Service Award.
• Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Public Service Award, 1989.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Investigative Reporting, 1990.
All those were for the articles he and Betty Gray wrote about the city’s contaminated water system in 1989-1990.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting, 1991.
• North Carolina Press Association, Third Place, General News Reporting, 2005.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Lighter Columns, 2006.
Recently learned he will receive another award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Lighter Columns, 2010.
4. Lectured at or served on seminar panels at journalism schools at UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Maryland, Columbia University, Mary Washington University and Francis Marion University.