Cobleigh Library Partners with RCT for Electric Bookmobile Support After Downtown EV Charger Plan Dropped

LYNDON — Plans to install an electric vehicle charging station downtown have been scrapped, but the Cobleigh Public Library has secured a new partnership to support its electric bookmobile initiative. Library Director Bryn Hoffman told trustees on April 23 that Rural Community Transportation (RCT) has offered the library access to EV chargers, secure parking, and maintenance services at its facility in the Lyndon-St. Johnsbury Industrial Park — all at no cost. RCT already operates several of the same Ford eTransit vans the library is considering and had identified Lyndonville as a gap in its EV infrastructure. Hoffman said RCT decided to build chargers, secure storage, and a maintenance protocol at the industrial park, and invited the library to share those resources.