Photo by LORETTA JACKSON Tom Maloney, a veteran of the U.S. Army and a window clerk with a tenure of 20 years at the Merrimack Station of the United States Postal Service, on Daniel Webster Highway, displays the custom stamp that was released as a special commemorative cancellation postmark heralding the Merrimack Public Library’s 125th anniversary.

The milestone was marked at the library, 470 Daniel Webster Hwy., during the last week of December, with the release of a Merrimack Station of the U.S. Postal Service pictorial cancellation postmark stamp, bearing the library’s modernistic logo and a “125th Anniversary Station” impression captured within a boundary of curved lines. The graphic was designed by Meghan Ham, a part-time employee of the library.

The pictorial cancellation postmark was applied to library patrons’ outgoing mail by Tom Maloney, a representative from the Merrimack branch of the U.S. Postal Service. Maloney is a veteran of the U.S. Army and has served postal customers as a window clerk for the Merrimack Station for 20 years.

Library patron Teri Lambert is a scout leader for eight young ladies who are cadets of Troop 14006, a local branch of the regional Girl Scouts of the Green and White Mountains. Lambert admired the exhibited stamped impression overlaying a bright red postage stamp on a white envelope.

“I think of the library as the center of town,” Lambert said, noting that she visits the library around three times a week. “The commemorative postmark is really something special.”

Photo by LORETTA JACKSON Teri Lambert, of Merrimack, a local girl scout leader and frequent patron of the Merrimack Public Library, admires the postal cancellation mark whose application to patrons’ stamped envelopes by postal worker Tom Maloney signaled the end of an events-packed celebration of the library’s 125th anniversary year.

Many pausing at the library during the days of the postmark cancellation event brought envelopes bearing “Forever Stamps” or other postage ready for stamping by Maloney, who collected them for subsequent delivery to many towns and states. Other visitors brought envelopes to be stamped and kept as collectible memorabilia.

Maloney pressed the embossed rubber square of nearly 3 inches, lettered with the notation, “125th Anniversary Station,” and the library’s town and postal code, onto an inked pad and applied the bold design to each person’s mail.

He also gifted young participants with a copy of a coloring and activity book, “Meet the Wonders of America,” published by the U.S. Postal Service. Adults received an 84-page, paper-bound book, titled, “The United States Postal Service – An American History 1775-2006.

“We are excited,” Merrimack Library Director Yvette Couser said. “We are excited to mark the close of our anniversary year with this special postal cancellation.”

Photo by LORETTA JACKSON Meghan Ham, a part-time employee of the Merrimack Public Library, is credited by staffers with designing the logo used on a special commemorative postal cancellation stamp marking the 125th anniversary year of the library, an image whose application to dozens of envelopes bearing appropriate postage for mailing were stamped and collected for delivery to the Merrimack Station of the U.S.P.S. by Tom Maloney, a longtime postal employee who conducted the stamping event at the library.

Photo by LORETTA JACKSON The envelopes of dozens of patrons of the Merrimack Public Library, on Daniel Webster Highway near Merrimack town hall, were stamped with the newly released commemorative postal cancellation mark, one that documented the 125th Anniversary of the Merrimack Public Library.

Photo by LORETTA JACKSON Youngsters attending the event in which parents’ mail was stamped with a commemorative postmark that concluded the celebration of the Merrimack Public Library’s 125th anniversary year were offered by event conductor Tom Maloney, of the Merrimack Station of the United States Postal Service, a coloring and activity book, “Meet the Wonders of America,” whose pages featured interesting facts about the United States, as presented within various images of postage stamps whose graphics noted the country’s hottest spot (Death Valley), its largest land mammal (the American bison) and interesting facts about every state.

Photo by LORETTA JACKSON Many who came to the Merrimack Public Library, on Daniel Webster Highway, during an event entailing the application to outgoing mail of a specially designed postage cancellation stamp that helped mark the conclusion of a series of festivities marking the library’s 125th anniversary year also were gifted by postal worker Tom Maloney with a copy of a paperbound book, “The United States Postal Service – An American History 1775-2006.”