On July 26, 1956, the Andrea Doria, with Norwood stylist Maria Gramm and her family on it, sank after colliding with the MS Stockholm. Over 55 years later, Gramm can remember specific details of escaping the ship with her family.
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“Goodnight iPad” by Ann Droyd came out just in time for the holiday season. I imagine it was a gift under many Christmas trees as it was under mine. A fun book with great colorful illustrations and witty rhyming text, it parodies the children’s classic “Goodnight Moon” written by Margaret Wise Brown many years ago.
Norwood Police Dispatch Log for Feb. 2 to Feb. 3, 2012
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The Norwood High School Marching Band had a banner year in 2011, and looks to improve in 2012.
The Greater Boston Real Estate Board, in partnership with the Massachusetts nonprofit ACCESS, announced the creation of a $200,000 scholarship fund for students in Greater Boston. The first $120,000 in scholarships will be awarded this spring to students attending college in the fall of 2012 and will be based on financial need, academic achievement, leadership, extra-curricular involvement, and short written essays.
The Norwood Town Clerk's Office wishes to inform the residents of Norwood there are vacancies for the office of Town Meeting Members in all Nine Town Meeting Districts.
Norwood Police Dispatch Log for Feb. 1 to Feb. 2. 2012
Deputy Police Chief William G. Brooks is leaving Wellesley to become Norwood’s new police chief.
Selectman Chair Barbara Searle announced the move at Monday night’s Board of Selectmen meeting.
The next chief of the Norwood Police Department will be William Brooks III, a veteran of the Norwood, Westwood and Wellesley police departments.
Ten students were honored by the Orient Lodge of Masons on Monday as the 2012 Ten Outstanding Norwood Youth award winners.
After almost two months of being on strike CertainTeed union employees returned to work. CertainTeed Corporation and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 25, agreed on a five-year contract on Monday, Jan. 30, according to a press release issued by the company and union.
To balance the budget for fiscal 2013, Town Manager John Carroll has proposed level funding most accounts and cutting away many requests for new capital items and equipment.
Norwood Police Dispatch Log for Jan. 31 to Feb. 1, 2012
Senate President Therese Murray lobbed a grenade Tuesday at Gov. Deval Patrick’s plan to more closely coordinate the state’s 15 community colleges, suggesting the proposal could lead to Boston bureaucrats setting agendas for campuses all over the state.
Norwood Police Dispatch Log for Jan. 30 to Jan. 31, 2012
A group advocating for public transit in Massachusetts lashed out at Transportation Secretary Richard Davey on Monday for what it called a “false choice” he has laid out between “draconian” service cuts and fare hikes to help balance the MBTA’s books.
Norwood Police Dispatch log for Jan. 26 to Jan. 30, 2012
The Abington chapter of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul will host a “Hearts and Halos” dinner dance at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, at the Abington VFW. The proceeds will go to the Abington Food Pantry.
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Michael Harrington, 18, was killed early Saturday in a fiery crash near 500 Highland Street in Marshfield.
George Esper of Braintree, the tenacious Associated Press correspondent who refused to leave his post in the last days of the Vietnam War, remaining behind to cover the fall of Saigon, has died. He was 79.
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Lawyers for a Braintree native and former Alabama professor accused of killing three colleagues during a faculty meeting want a state appeals court to delay her March trial because officials haven’t paid for expert witnesses or testing by a neurologist.
Theft of sewer covers and storm grates has been a problem in the region since the price of scrap metal soared a few years ago. Brockton, East Bridgewater, Avon, Stoughton and Easton reported similar thefts over the past two years.
Rockland firefighters got some unexpected practice Thursday morning after a training exercise sparked flames on a nearby warehouse roof.
Shelley Sommer of Scituate recently was chosen to receive a Sydney Taylor Book Award for her 2011 book “Hammerin’ Hank Greenberg,” a biography of the first Jewish baseball player to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame
