{"id":41924,"date":"2026-11-05T06:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T11:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=41924"},"modified":"2026-11-05T07:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:33:37","slug":"a-new-future-for-the-carnegie-building-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/a-new-future-for-the-carnegie-building-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"A new future for the Carnegie building coming?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/old-carnegie-library.jpg?resize=640%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/old-carnegie-library.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/old-carnegie-library.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/old-carnegie-library.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Adams County group wants to take over the old Carnegie Library building in downtown Decatur to make it part of the library again.  The building has housed courts and the probation department for several years.  With the county planning for a renovation and expansion of the courthouse, the old Carnegie building may be available very soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wylie Sirk, the President of the Adams Public Library System Board of Trustees spoke with WZBD&#8217;s Ed Thurman about the possible uses of the building&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Ed-with-Wiley-Sirk.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Commissioners were pleased with the request, but need to study the matter further before making a final decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Adams County group wants to take over the old Carnegie Library building in downtown Decatur to make<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-41924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41924"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41934,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41924\/revisions\/41934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}