The library has recently added several new databases to its online resources. All are available in the library or from home for Norwood residents with Norwood library cards.

Today science has verified something we have intuitively known for years - good food is a major factor in good health.

Whenever I go over the Piscataquis Bridge from New Hampshire to Maine everyone in the car with me must open their windows and let the “clean Maine air” fill the car no matter what time of the year. Then I wave my arms out the window and yell, “Yippee, I am in Maine!”

Every morning I park in the back lot of the library and I read and reread the names of authors of classics I’ve read or read about.

There have been times in my life when finding time to read for myself wasn’t easy.

I couldn’t have planned a trip to Paris without going to the library first.

It is our nature as humans to identify with the brick and mortar, the clapboard and granite of our lives.

Since becoming a library director in 2005 I haven’t had as many opportunities to serve those youngest populations and I miss them.

The most common of all cancers is skin cancer, which accounts for nearly half of all cancers in the United States.

Front-page news this week once again warns us that the Boston Globe is threatening to cease publication. Soon. And at best it might morph into something totally digital; at worse it will vanish from our lives entirely.