BATH — On Saturday, October 25, the Teen Library Council of Patten Free Library is offering an evening of frightful fun at “Haunted Patten,” a brief but very scary guided tour of the library basement and some of its darkest secrets. The tours, which will be led by Library Director Lesley Dolinger, will begin at 6:30 and end at 9:30 p.m. Tour times (scheduled at 10- minute intervals) can be reserved by individuals or groups of up to six people by filling out a reservation request beginning Tuesday, October 7. The reservation request form can be downloaded and printed from the library website (www.patten. lib.me.us) or filled out on-line.

The tour is appropriate for those in seventh grade and up. (Adults are welcome, too.) There is no admission fee; however, the Council suggests a donation of $3 per person at the door. There will be baked goods available for sale in the waiting area (the Gazebo in Library Park). All proceeds will help underwrite teen programming at the Library.

The Council has enlisted the assistance of many Morse High School students as well as library staff to help stage the event. “We hope that this becomes something that everyone in the community looks forward to each year,” says Emma Harrington, a junior at Morse High School, and one the event organizers. “The library basement provides the perfect environment for a short but appropriately terrifying Halloween tour.”

For more information, call Roberta Jordan at the library (443-5141, ext. 25).