The Joseph Plumb Memorial Library just got $3,000 closer to making its basement 100% handicap accessible.

The Rochester Board of Library Trustees received a grant in that amount from the A.D. Makepeace Neighborhood fund at the annual reception for grant recipients Thursday, May 9 at the Box Mill Hall in Wareham.

"The lower level of the library has limited handicap accessibility," explained said Library Director Gail Roberts.

The grant will go toward building a handicap bathroom.

"We have some other money that we've raised," said Roberts.

Roberts says they have received money for the project from other sources,  including $10,000 from SEMASS, and $20,000 that was appropriated at Town Meeting.

"Now, we're expanding into the larger basement."

One of the major projects the library would like to happen in the future is the installation an elevator.

Also receiving grants from the neighborhood fund was the Wildlands Trust ($1,000), toward enhancing public access to the Stephen C.L. Delano Memorial Forest, the Rochester Land Trust ($900), and the Conservation Commission ($5,000) toward the Doggetts Brook Recreational Area Education and Improvement Project.