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Longtime Sugar Grove Library director fired

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Beverly Holmes Hughes on the job in 2004 as director of the Sugar Grove Library. She was fired July 14 after 21 years with the library.

Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer

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Sugar Grove Library Trustee Daniel Herkes

Former Sugar Grove Library Trustee Sabrina Malano. She quit in the middle of a meeting in June.

Sugar Grove Library Trustee Art Morrical declined to answer questions about the firing of the library's director.

The new Sugar Grove Library opened in 2009.

Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer

Library Director Beverly Holmes Hughes, right and circulation Director Michelle Drawz, share an emotional moment during groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Sugar Grove Library. Hughes was fired July 14.

Daily Herald file photo, 2009

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The Sugar Grove Library has fired its longtime director, Beverly Hughes Holmes. Hughes and some of the library board trustees had a strained relationship the last several years.

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