Springfield is reading “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer this summer, with programs to follow in the fall.

After a 20-year hiatus, One Read, One Springfield, a community-wide event that encourages adult readers to all read the same book, is back!

The allocation is made possible by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Springfield was provisionally awarded $6,837,061 for construction of the East Springfield Branch.