Library board loses two assets

Enough, finally, was enough.

At 83 and with a half-century of experience with libraries, Guy Craft, as chair of the Dougherty County Library System, was a fount of knowledge. On Tuesday, that fountain dried up with a short, to-the-point resignation letter submitted to the chairman of the Dougherty County Commission.

Craft’s decision is understandable, if unfortunate. An African-American, he was labeled racist along with the rest of the library board’s trustees after they made a decision last summer to close two underused branches