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BROOKHAVEN — Next week could get a little busy. The library will host a mixer during the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit stopping in Brookhaven Monday. Brookhaven Academy will host a ribbon cutting Thursday.

Lincoln Lawerence Franklin Regional Library will host a traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian Institute starting Monday until November 22. A business mixer will follow the next day as Leah Kemp, State Scholar at Mississippi State University’s Fred Carl Jr. Small Town Center, will be a guest speaker for the “Crossroads: Changes in Rural America.”

The mixer will kickoff at 4:30 p.m. and last until 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. Light refreshments will be served.

New Construction

Brookhaven Academy celebrates the completion of a new office building and classrooms at the front of the school next Thursday. The ribbon cutting will be held at 8:30 a.m. nearly a year after students celebrated the ground breaking ceremony.

People can tour the new building immediately following the ribbon cutting.