New life for old books

OWASCO - Pat Oxford doesn't normally do her shopping at the dump.

But on a recent Wednesday afternoon, the Owasco woman was on the hunt for summer reading books for her ninth-grade daughter. A trip to Seymour library didn't yield any of the contemporary classics on the list, and Syracuse was farther than Oxford wanted to drive.

So while on a trip to the Owasco recycling center on Route 38A to buy some garbage bags, Oxford thought she'd pop into the used book library at the center to see if she could knock some books off the list.