Natick, MA News

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• The Library will be closed Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday-Monday, May 26-28
• American Legion Post 107 sponsored the 88th annual Transfer of Flags at Kennedy...
• We are in 2nd place and would love your vote. Please take a moment to vote and m...
• Today's Globe West has an excellent article about the Natick Veterans Oral Histo...
• The Teen Cooking Program @ the library last night was lots of fun! The kids made...
• If you have ever wondered what the Friends do with the money they raise at their...
• Have you seen our new shopping carts?
• Did you know that the Library sponsors two monthly book groups? We have a mornin...
• “Draw a crazy picture, Write a nutty poem, Sing a mumble-gumble song, Whistle th...
• These are the new books this week.
• Please everyone - vote in this poll for TCAN as the Best Place for Entertainment...
• This year during Hospital Week we hung up storyboards that reflected some of the...
• Our Pet Therapy program is looking for new pups! If you are interested in this...
• The 2011 Nebula Awards have been announced and the winner for best novel is Amon...
• Sign up today for the Teen Cooking Program @ the library: Homemade Soft Pretzels...
• A Night at the Movies. Monday, May 21, 7 pm, in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall, The W...
• The newly revamped Online Newsstand is back, now organized by categories. This i...
• Today's the day! The Friends of the Library booksale is this weekend. Saturday 9...
• MetroWest Medical Center is pleased to announce that we are the proud recipients...
• Teen Cooking Program @ the library: Homemade Soft Pretzels & Smoothies!!! This c...
• Still some great seats remaining for Atlanta Rhythm Section. Unless we get some...
• Jean Craighead George July 2, 1919- May 15, 2012 May 15th brought the passing o...
• Ever wonder how a book gets made?
• “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it...
• And on this day in 1602...
• Today is Police Officers Memorial Day, held annually in the United States on May...
• Atlanta Rhythm Section this Friday. Ronnie Earl on Saturday, live recording for...
• Boston Globe...thanks for coming to see Marshall Crenshaw and the Bottle Rockets...
• Our thanks to D.A. and the guys at 98.5 sports radio for the TCAN shout-out this...
• It's almost here... Mark your calendar for the Friends' Book Sale Saturday, May...
• "Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The Library fielded a team for the annual Natick Education Foundation Spelling B...
• Last week, we celebrated our nurses as part of Nurses Week and Hospital Week. W...
• Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms out there!! And, special thoughts to those wh...
• Happy Mother's Day!
• Happy Mother's Day!!! Motherhood is one of the hardest, and most important, task...
• Two seats just opened up for Marshall Crenshaw and the Bottle Rockets tonight, f...
• Have you read a book recently that you think would make a great Mother's Day gift?
• Tickets for John Waite on October 4, and Glen Phillips and Grant-Lee Phillip on...
• In celebration of hospital week, today we'll be playing "Win, Lose, or Draw" for...
• Our 2012 Compassionate Caregiver Award Winner Dr. David Young, his family and Me...
• Today was our 4th annual Compassionate Caregiver Award ceremony! Congratulatio...
• From YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association):
• Glen Phillips from Toad the Wet Sprocket joins Grant-Lee Phillips for a special...
• This article is from 4/29/12 but I didn't notice it until now... I guess I was t...
• Celebrating our nurses at our annual nurses night recognition event! Happy Nurs...
• Happy Hospital Week and Happy Nurses Week!
• Our latest TV commercial for our MetroWest Medical Center / Floating Hospital fo...
• Maurice Sendak "cherished the letters that individual children sent him unbidden...
• Children's Book Week is May 7-13, 2012!!! Celebrate by coming to the library an...
• It's Stroke Awareness Month! Check out this video made by 2 members of the MWMC...
• New fiction due out this week.
• New books for kids and teens.
• It looks like there are a lot of interesting books coming this week. Here is a s...
• Cinco de Mayo recognizes the Mexican army's victory over France at the Battle of...
• TODAY May 5th is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!! Go and get a free comic! Click the link b...
• May 5th is Free Comic Book Day!! Go and get a free comic! Click the link below t...
• May the Fourth! Happy Star Wars Day!!!
• "With the knowledge that library use makes better readers, higher achievers and...
• Just 50 seats remain for Jesse Colin Young. 25 more couples will hold hands to h...
• MetroWest Medical Center wins Environmental Excellence Award!
• All this month the All Natick 4th Grade Art Show is on display on the Lower Leve...
• Grantseeking Basics with Edgar Zavala, Program Director of the Foundation Center...
• Sunday May 6 the Natick Historical Society and Museum will hold their annual mee...
• This Saturday, May 5, the Broadmoor Chamber Singers will return to the library w...
• Help support Literacy Unlimited which teaches adults in the Metrowest area to re...
• Seth Glier and Liz Longley performing at TCAN Friday night!
• From the Friends: We're only a little over two weeks away from the Friends of Mo...
• May's Wednesday Evening Book Group meets May 30 at 7 PM in Meeting Room 1A and t...
• Today @ MWMC we are filming our Compassionate Caregiver Award video! Can't wait...
• Wednesday May 2, Creative Connections will present The Life and Times of Beatrix...
• These are some of the new books due out this week.
• Here is a sneak peek at our new library cards.
• “Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedo...
• This summer at TCAN see Southside Johnny, Buckwheat Zydeco, Howie Day, Tom Rush,...
• The Mystery Writers of America presented the Edgar Awards this evening. See the...
• This year MetroWest Medical Center was chosen as one of twelve companies to work...
• Dr. Robert Martello will speak on his new book Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn :...
• “Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to un...
• Happy Administrative Assistant's Day to all the hardworking, multi-tasking, able...
• The Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) announced the winners of the Sta...
• From Representative David P. Linsky I am pleased to announce that the House ha...
• If, like a few of us here, you are looking for more Stieg Larsson-type books (ak...
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• Our employee "newsletter" MSN: MetroWest Stories Now! April 24, 2012
• Lieutenant Governor Murray Tours The U.S. Army's Natick Soldier Systems Center; Convenes Meeting Of Task Force To Unify Support For Military Jobs And Investments
• These are some of the new books due out this week.
• “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children'...
• The Wednesday Evening Book Group meets this week at 7 PM in the Community Room o...
• CR is offering free access to recycling, energy use, alternative fuels and more....
• Today is Earth Day. Love your Mother.
• Natick Earth Day Festival
• There will be a Maple Sugar Tree planting in loving memory of Harriet Buckingham...
• Today's Teen Program (Thurs. 4/19, 3-4 pm), "High School Only Book Share," is a...
• Join us on Saturday, May 12th for our Health & Wellness Fair! Complete with pon...
• We are pleased to announce our nominees and finalists for MetroWest Medical Cent...
• Please join us Wednesday evening (April 18) at 7 pm for a special Sports Nutriti...
• Tomorrow's Morning Book Group will discuss Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, a novel...
• Tasty weekend with David Wilcox and Vicki Genfan, finals of Rock Off Main Showdo...
• Come to our special program for teen athletes, their parents and coaches: Improv...
• These are some of the books due out this week.
• Vacation Week Teen Program #1: GAMES DAY, grades 5 - 12, Tues. April 17, 2-5 pm,...
• Two of the riders on this fateful night were a young woman and a young African-A...
• “Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something,...
• The Library will be closed Sunday & Monday in honor of Patriots' Day
• It's Friday the 13th after all.
• Our celebration of National Library Week concludes Saturday with David Polansky'...
• An interesting subject if you enjoy browsing books (by their covers or otherwise...
• Her first book written for adults. We're hoping for a simultaneous US publicatio...
• MetroWest Medical Center now offers families or families-to-be an opportunity to...
• Friday April 13 at 2:45 there will be a webinar, Nonprofit Sustainability : Buil...
• Did you know that MetroWest Medical Center has a fantastic Therapy Dog program?...
• Facebook for Grown-Ups, presented by Rita Gavelis is a demonstration of how to u...
• This is an excellent in-depth and wide-ranging interview. Did you know King is w...
• Thursday come to a drop-in session in the Computer Lab to learn how to set up an...
• Join us tonight!
• Yesterday at National Library Workers Day staff shared their talents with others...
• Wish List: Seeking carpenter!
• This coming Saturday is the Centennial of the sinking of the Titanic. If you wan...
• Tomorrow is National Bookmobile Day and our Bookmobile will be visiting the Nati...
• According to new research from Library Research Services (find the report here h...
• “There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children wh...
• Tuesday is National Library Workers' Day. Come and celebrate with us as the staf...
• On display this month in the Right and Left Galleries on the main floor are scen...
• Check out "10 to Watch" and read about Stephanie Guidetti, our very own VP of Ma...
• The American Library Association released the State of America's Library 2012 re...
• These are the new books due out this week.
• We kick off National Library Week tonight with author Justin Locke as he explore...
• Silver Apple Bedtime Storyhour is a drop-in 45 minute program of stories, songs...
• Fifteen years ago today, on April 8, 1997, the "new" renovated library re-opened...
• Happy Easter, Happy Passover everyone.
• Here's a classic that we like to get out every year.
• Geof Hewitt, Karen Perkins of the Morse Institute Library, and the winners of th...
• Slam Master Geof Hewitt keeps an eye on the scores at the annual Poetry Slam hel...
• Dr. Collins goes to Washington A local doctor was in Washington, D.C., this week...
• Next week is National Library Week. We have lots of special events planned. Chec...
• The big news for genealogists this week is that the 1940 census was released, a...
• Dear Facebook friends: the TCAN Mobile iPhone app is now available in the Apple...
• Join us for "Food Matters" Wednesday April 11, 7:00PM HELM Auditorium, 2nd Floor...
• Poetry Slam for All is tomorrow at 7 PM at TCAN, an evening of fast-paced compet...
• Next Wednesday is National Bookmobile Day. Do you use the Bookmobile? Did you us...
• Working on John Waite for a TCAN date. What's a fair ticket price?
• Teen/YA novels in poetry form are on display (at the entrance to the Teen Room)...
• The 17th annual Art Exhibition featuring work from Middle School and High School...
• Wednesday Creative Connections will present The Ultimate Rescue: Engine 32 and t...
• The Grantseeking Basics webinar will be held for representatives of nonprofit or...
• April is Autism Awareness Month
• This hawk was spotted on the Common the evening of March 28.
• What would you do if you won?
• The popularity of The Hunger Games among teens AND adults has brought about a gr...
• To paraphrase Mark Twain...reports of the death of the physical book have been g...
• The little town of Shutesbury is working hard to raise money to build a new libr...
• Al Rosen, liberator and co-producer will be guest presenter for Bearing Witness,...
• The Library now has business class wi-fi throughout the building which can suppo...
• We hope you're ready with two original poems for the Poetry Slam April 5 at 7 PM...
• Literacy Unlimited needs volunteers to teach people to read and write. Training...
• For those of you who liked reading The Hunger Games, this list gives some good i...
• Did you know that xbox 360 and Wii games are available in the Teen Room? (PS3 ga...
• Need your feedback on a crucial question. We want to add new desserts at the TCA...
• Literacy Unlimited needs volunteers to teach people to learn English (ESOL). Tra...
• This coming Wednesday is the Evening Book Group Discussion in the Community Room...
• Come see a special display of books in the teen room: "If You Like Hunger Games,...
• "Like" this post if you or someone in your family saw the movie, The Hunger Game...
• Mmmmm....HAGGIS! Just 30 seats left...
• Here are the new books due out next week.
• Today is National Goof Off Day. Any special plans?
• This Saturday March 24 come and see a reading and dance performance of Gwendolyn...
• MetroWest Daily News is featuring "Health Care Insiders" in their paper. Check...
• “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and look...
• For all the genealogists and family history researchers, this will be a great bo...
• Wednesday March 21 we will be having another in our series of Webinars for Grant...
• Spring began at 1:14 AM as the sun crossed the equator and headed north.
• Hey hey hey we're over 2K! Thanks friends!
• Don't forget that tomorrow is the last in the series of free computer workshops...
• So pleased to announce that both our Leonard Morse and Framingham Union Hospital...
• This is a great background article. What did I learn? Word of mouth and hand sel...
• California Transit Authority
• “In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floati...
• Tuesday March 20 is the final in our series of free computer workshops with Rita...
• Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone!
• Here are the new books due out next week.
• 6 days and 5 hours until The Hunger Games movie for those of you who are countin...
• If you have a strong opinion about TCAN, we encourage you to post a review on ou...
• Happy birthday, Mike Love. March 15, 1941 "and she forgot all about the library...
• Welcome Spring on Sunday March 18 with the Solstice Sackbuts, a trio that plays...
• Great photos from The Taste of MetroWest last night!
• Another great photo of our award winning Food & Nutrition Team! (photo courtesy...
• Our award winning Food & Nutrition Team! (photo courtesy of David Fox Photography)
• Our table at the 2nd Annual Taste of MetroWest! Best Presentation of the night!
• Tonight at the 2nd Annual Taste of MetroWest our amazing food and nutrition team...
• On this day in 1922 in Lowell, Mass., Jack Kerouac was born. As the epitome of t...
• Happy 100th birthday to the Girl Scouts. You can read all about founder Juliette...
• Rave reviews for Dr. Joel Herskowitz's music theory program at the library.
• Want text messages when your items are ready to pick up? Log into your account,...
• The town's 26th annual Household Hazardous Waste Collection will be held Saturda...
• David Lavalley, TCAN's Executive Director with Joan Osborne following her perfor...
• We just had to pass this on. There's lots of new life to see at the Farm.
• The National Book Critics Circle Award winners were announced Thursday evening.
• Ebook pricing has become a huge issue for libraries so we're happy to see that t...
• Ever wonder about the special glassware that your grandmother left you? Come to...
• Don't forget our Medication Take Back event is this Saturday!
• The Pizza and "Apps" program was lots of fun. The kids enjoyed eating pizza, pla...
• From our Human Resources Team: MetroWest Medical Center is seeking Pharmacist wh...
• Louis Francis "Lou" Costello was born on this date in 1906. Why are we telling y...
• Soprano Ruth Harcovitz returns to Creative Connections on March 7 at 3 PM with a...
• One hundred years ago today the Oreo was born. You know what to do to celebrate...
• This afternoon from 3 to 6 PM is the Open Computer Lab for Beginners. This is dr...
• Tomorrow's Early Release Day program will be "Pizza and Apps" in the Morse Room...
• Poetry Slam for All is just one month away, time to get your poems ready for the...
• The second floor of TCAN is beautiful and unfinished. What should we do with tha...
• These are the books due out next week.
• This probably should be disturbing, or at least make us stop and think. If we ha...
• Medication Take-Back Event Saturday, March 10th, 2012 9am—1pm Board Room @ Leona...
• In recognition of National Sleep Awareness Week, MetroWest Medical Center is ple...
• Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss. You can honor him by reading a book with a child to le...
• The Morse Institute Library now has a mobile-friendly web site. Point your smar...
• Mmmm 1,974 Likes on our page. 1974 we were listening to Steely Dan's Pretzel Log...
• The Library is CLOSING at 6 pm Thursday March 1 due to poor weather conditions!
• There is a reputed app for Minuteman Network in the iTunes store but Minuteman C...
• Southside Johnny and the Poor Fools
• Who doesn't enjoy looking through cookbooks! Here's what you can look forward to...
• The leap-storm gave us just enough to create a snowman. This guy was found hangi...
• Ever wondered why there is a leap year?
• Next Tuesday's Early Release Day program will be "Pizza and Apps" in the Morse R...
• Music Theory : Some Things I've Found Useful in More Than Fifty Years of Listeni...
• Tomorrow is Recognition Wednesday here at MWMC and we'd like to take a minute to...
• The Evening Book Group invites you to join them in exploring different genres of...
• Tomorrow begins our series of free computer workshops with Rita Gavelis, Librar...
• On display in the Exhibit Cases, Lower Level, is Glass Through the Decades from...
• We promoted this a while back. It just won an academy award for best animated sh...
• Join Miss Susan in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall for the Preschool Film Fest Monday...
• Mystery Writers Panel : From Fact to Mysterious Fiction. Join us tomorrow Sunday...
• This is pretty cool. Susan Werner does an interview in Ann Arbor for her gig tom...
• Here are some of the books due out next week.
• The TCAN Players will stage a production of Stephen Sondheim's Tony-award winnin...
• Let's get to 1,967 likes so we can talk about the music of 1967!
• The library has recently added new books to the Chinese, Russian and Spanish col...
• Bob Pflugfelder ("Science Bob") performed a series of fun and messy experiments...
• We are teaming up with Framingham State University's Fashion Design and Retailin...
• We'll be looking forward to this.
• The Taste of MetroWest is coming up... will you be there? We certainly will!
• Join the Melting Mama Bariatric Bad Girls Club & others at our Walk from Obesity...
• Congratulations to Tufts Medical Center! Winner of Boston Business Journal’s mo...
• We are excited to be holding our second Walk from Obesity on April 28th! We hope...
• Are you running the Boston Marathon? Are you ready? Are there any aches or pains...
• Can't wait for the movie, Hunger Games, to be in theaters??? Countdown with this...
• Mystery Author Panel: From Fact to Mysterious Fiction Join us on Sunday, Februar...
• Washington's birthday 1860 saw the beginning of the Labor movement in America. N...
• We have 1,965 fans on our page. In 1965 the top five songs were Satisfaction, Ye...
• We know that, like us, many of you are suffering the pangs of withdrawal from Do...
• Here are some of the new books due out this week.
• The Library Teen Program continues Tuesday Feb. 21 at 7 PM in the Lebowitz Meeti...
• Roger Waters performs The Wall at Fenway Park on July 1, tickets priced to sell...
• Does downtown Natick need an after-TCAN-concert destination?
• Here's another beautiful photo by Maureen Sullivan. This is the Community Farm a...
• Have you seen our newest TV commercials?
• Have you seen our newest TV commercials?
• Spring has arrived at Natick Community Organic Farm. Lynda Simkins, executive di...
• Ruth Moody from the Wailin' Jennies brings her band to TCAN tonight...can't wait!
• In honor of Presidents' Day the Library will be closed Sunday - Monday, February...
• This portrait of Henry Wilson by Darius Cobb (ca 1877) is on the second floor of...
• Two hundred years ago today Henry Wilson was born.
• “Whether it’s the internet or whether it’s e-books, everything that comes along...
• Artists at the Library through March includes Suzanne Davis Photography : Photog...
• Join us tomorrow night at 6pm as our FREE Lecture Series continues with Dr. Jim...
• Who remembers Jennifer Warnes?
• Artists at the Library through March includes Embroidery: by Mary Schelling Burk...
• "Science Bob," who will be doing a teen program at Morse Institute Library on Fe...
• Happy Valentine's Day everyone!
• Big thanks to Tilly and Salvy's, Natick Rotary, Berklee College and Bose Corpora...
• Artists at the Library through March includes Seasons of Mount Auburn : photogra...
• “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in...
• Artists at the Library, through March, includes A Trip to Cuba Photography by Jo...
• Drop into the Children's Room Monday evening February 13 at 6:30 pm for Silver A...
• Have we broken the back of winter (such as it was)?
• More trouble with ebooks and audiobooks with OverDrive, but Penguin looks like i...
• Several big-name authors have books coming out next week.
• Weight loss is about winning, and not only about losing. Come to one of our free...
• Come to The Taste of MetroWest on March 13th and stop by the MetroWest Medical C...
• Please join us for our WINTERFEST Blood Drive TODAY (2/9/12) Noon - 7:30p MacPhe...
• The teens had fun today at the Pizza and Games Day event. This group was playing...
• The teens had fun today at the Pizza and Games Day event. This group was working...
• The Library is in need of Natick directories and phone books from 1947 to 1966....
• Please join us for our WINTERFEST Blood Drive tomorrow (2/9/12) Noon - 7:30p Mac...
• TCAN will host a Songwriters Showcase on July 13, featuring rising stars Amy Bla...
• On this day in 1867 Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in a log cabin seven miles nor...
• Spend 5 Minutes with Dr. Adam Urato
• This month's evening book discussion group will be Wednesday Feb. 29, 2012 in th...
• Did you know that there are now 70 magazines on the Online Newsstand. New titles...
• Our Green Team!
• MetroWest Medical Center Employees: Our CEO Challenge begins today! Find out mo...
• Join us on April 28, 2012!
• Attention all middle school and high school teens: Wednesday February 8 from noo...
• “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”―Lemony Snicket
• The poetry of Downton Abbey, including four free downloadable audiobooks from th...
• The Natick Service Council's bi-monthly Living Well Series begins February 29th...
• And now for something completely different, coming to TCAN June 29 2012.
• Starting tonight!
• From the Local History Department : library materials relating to the Natick Res...
• One of the five animated short films nominated for an Academy Award.
• Wow soon we will have 1,954 likes...then 1,967 likes...then 1,972 likes. Meaning...
• This Wednesday February 1 Creative Connections presents a program by Dave Downs...
• Bluesy cool songwriter Emily Elbert will open for Joan Osborne on February 25.
• Here at the Library we've begun the celebration early. February 7th is Charles D...
• Check out our great Farmers Market tomorrow @ Leonard Morse Hospital!
• Meet Our Hospitalists!
• TCAN Members - please join us March 30 for Member Appreciation Night featuring a...
• Join us on Thursday, February 2nd for the first FREE lecture in our Cardiovascul...
• On January 25, 1890, police cleared a path through a cheering crowd for reporter...
• “Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and bod...
• Our 2012 Cardiovascular Lecture Series is right around the corner. Join us for a...
• Good morning! Today is National Compliment Day. You-all are absolutely the fines...
• These are the new books out this week.
• Happy Chinese New Year! This is the Year of the Dragon. Chinese holiday traditio...
• Ronnie Earl on May 19. Did we mention that?
• Beatlejuice starts their first set in about five minutes...THANK YOU for another...
• Over 50 teens participated in Friday's Comic Art Workshop with Andy and Veronica...
• A standing ovation for North Shore Acappella, performing in their debut at TCAN...
• The Friends of the Library are busy today setting up the Lebowitz Meeting Hall f...
• Should TCAN try presenting a tribute band once in a while? Any suggestions?
• This is what the storage room looks like now but by Saturday everything will be...
• Watch MWMC nurse Nancy Cahill on Wheel of Fortune on January 30th! Good luck, N...
• Bearing Witness: Liberating Concentration Camps of the Holocaust
• On display this month in the Teen Room are "firsts" in series. Celebrate the new...
• Happy Birthday to the Champ as well.
• Happy Birthday, Betty White. A lady never tells her age.
• This coming Friday, January 20, 2012, the Teen Room presents the Comic Art Works...
• Click here to see a list of MetroWest Medical Center's CPR, First Aid & BLS clas...
• Check out our Winter Farmers Market every Saturday through March!
• From Local History/Archives : Natick in the 1950s. We were given 17 photos and n...
• The Library is closed Sunday and Monday January 15 & 16 in honor of Martin Luthe...
• Our thanks to all the sponsors of "Smile in Every Seat", a campaign to provide f...
• There are now 70 magazines available in the Online Newsstand. New titles include...
• A children's classic as retold by William Shakespeare.
• “If you don’t like to read you haven’t found the right book.”—J. K. Rowling
• Two-time Grammy winner Laurence Juber plays a set before the great Johnny A take...
• Open Computer Labs for beginners resumes this week. Hours will be Mondays 3 to 6...
• Ahhh...but you haven't seen what *our* books do at the Library after 9 PM.
• Happy Birthday to the King. Celebrate with a fried peanut butter and banana sand...
• Some of the books due out next week.
• This year 272 items were collected on the Giving Tree for A Place to Turn in Nat...
• Follow us on Twitter @MetroWestMedCtr!
• Kids Connect Family New Year's Party storytelling at the Library. Kids Connect i...
• The Friends of the Library booksale is coming, Saturday, January 21, 9:30 am - 4...
• Check out our Winter Farmer's Market! Every Saturday thru March from 9a-1p @ Leo...
• Spend 5 Minutes with Dr. Edmon Jacobson
• Happy New Year!
• Here's a photo for your Facebook page. From the Teen Librarian's Toolbox.
• George R.R. Martin has released a chapter from his Winds of War, the next volume...
• "On This Day in 1920... Isaac Asimov was born in Russia and raised in New York C...
• Happy New Year everyone !
• Happy New Year everyone!
• The Library will be closed Saturday - Monday, December 31 - January 2
• We still have a way to go to cover our expenses for 2011 programs. We invite our...
• Are you thinking about making New Year's resolutions to do better in 2012? Wheth...
• The Literacy Unlimited student waiting list for a tutor will be open on January...
• Open Computer Labs for beginners will be resuming January 9, 2012. Hours will be...
• Mark your calendar for January 20, 2012 3:30 to 4:30 pm when the Teen Room prese...
• Passes to the Worcester Art Museum will be available from the Library beginning...
• Hope you had a great holiday! TCAN reopens in 2012 with Red Horse featuring John...
• Was there a new e-reader under the tree for you? Do you need help getting starte...
• Merry Christmas everyone!
• NORAD has been tracking Santa since he started his journey from the North Pole....
• Just a note to let you know TCAN will be closed Saturday and reopen Tuesday Dece...
• 2012. The end of excuses. Join Fitcorp for $12. Be rewarded for sticking to your...
• The Library will be closed Saturday through Monday, December 24-26.
• On This Day in 1865, Governor John Andrew officially received the battered regim...
• Tonight at 12:30 am the earth's axis reaches its furthest point from the sun and...
• "…young adult fiction has developed into one of the most complex and extensive g...
• Fitcorp @ MetroWest FREE Group Fitness Classes!
• Happy Chanukah everyone !
• Kind of a light week for new books out this week.
• Christmas CLOSED Saturday - Monday, December 24-26 New Year's Day CLOSED Satur...
• The Children's Library is also having a bedtime storyhour Wednesday December 21...
• Join Miss Susan Wednesday December 21, at 10:30 am in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall...
• Meet our new Teen Librarian, Nina Hernandez Taylor,
• Thank you, donors! Donations made to the library's Annual Fund Drive will be us...
• Your first big concert experience. Who did you see? What do you remember?
• This holiday season listen to something new! Hunter Foote, violinist, and Michae...
• Tomorrow is Teen Duct Tape & Pizza Day (Thursday December 15) from Noon to 3 PM...
• "...the role of the librarian is becoming even more important. We need visionary...
• Our Giving Tree in the lobby is coming to life with new hats, mittens, scarves,...
• Part 2 of George R.R. Martin's _Game of Thrones_ is set to air in April 2012 on...
• Don't forget that this Thursday, December 14 from Noon to 3 PM, is the Teens Piz...
• The Wednesday Morning Book Group will meet this Wednesday, December 14 at 11 AM...
• Here's an unusual idea off the net. You can even build in a little shelf to hold...
• If you are getting in the mood for some Christmas movies, we have them! Check th...
• Will you be receiving an e-book in the near future? Or are you buying one as a g...
• Back in the late Nineties, our little firehouse was...well, an actual Firehouse....
• Here are some of the books due out next week.
• Remember to get your letters to Santa into the mailbox in the Children's Departm...
• Literacy Unlimited is hosting their annual Holiday Potluck and Talent Show! Whe...
• Great news.
• Join us in welcoming the Broadmoor Chamber Singers for a joyous afternoon of sea...
• Today marks the observance of the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor...
• Bill Littlefield to Speak in Natick
• Revenge of the Picture Book. Last year the New York Times wrote them off becaus...
• If you have an account on Yelp, and have attended a show at TCAN, please post so...
• Here's a simple way to ease into the Christmas spirit as these videos will show...
• If you are looking for some local (and free) fun with the family during this upc...
• Creative Connections presents Real Men Don't Rehearse with Justin Locke who tell...
• This coming Wednesday Natick will observe the 70th anniversary of the attack on...
• Watch the book trailer for Where She Went by Gayle Forman on the Morse Institute...
• Happy Birthday Walt Disney....“There is more treasure in books than in all the p...
• MetroWest Medical Center's New Hire Orientation is today. We are excited to wel...
• Did you know Pandora radio has a TCAN station? It features artists who have play...
• Here are the new books due out next week.
• The annual and invaluable Books to Give Kids You Don't Know Very Well.
• The Library, together with the Natick Garden Club, is sponsoring The Giving Tree...
• "...even in a world of screens, paper offers unique ways to organize and share y...
• Natick Center Associates & Natick Recreation and Parks Department...
• Are you interested in volunteering? Do you need community service hours? Volunt...
• Once again this year, the Children's Library is helping out Santa Claus, by coll...
• The Wednesday Evening Book Group meets tomorrow November 30 at 7 PM in the Commu...
• The Children's Library is also having a bedtime storyhour tomorrow, Wednesday No...
• Join Miss Susan Wednesday November 30, at 10:30 am in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall...
• We are glad to see Pentatonix win The Sing-Off tonight! Long live acappella!
• Believe it or not, teen books are not all paranormal romances. Instead you will...
• Check out the Q&A with Dr. Adam Urato that was in the MetroWest Daily News on Fr...
• We welcome Grace Kelly back to TCAN on December 3, this time with a guitarist in...
• Here are some of the new books on sale this coming week.
• As demonstrated by the creators of SF "books will still be the most effective wa...
• Watch the movie trailer for The Hunger Games at the Morse Institute Library Teen...
• "Our harvest being gotten in, our governour sent foure men on fowling, that so w...
• From all of us at TCAN we wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving! We give thanks to...
• MetroWest Medical Center wishes you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving!
• We're working on a new membership brochure and would like your feedback on some...
• Anyone working in a library knew this already.
• In the Virtual Gallery on the First Floor through December, Norine Quinn is exhi...
• Glad to host the talented student musicians of Wellesley High School for their w...
• The Library will be closed Thanksgiving Day, Thursday November 24. The library w...
• The licensing of ebooks for library patrons has just hit another snag. If you us...
• When selecting books for the younger people in your life, this list will be all...
• Do you need a little help organizing your Thanksgiving meal? The Library has lot...
• Join Us Tomorrow!
• Some of the books due out next week.
• Great news...Joan Osborne has confirmed an appearance at TCAN on Saturday Feb 25...
• Duct Tape! Teens, save this date and time : Thursday December 15, 1 - 3 PM. Ther...
• A Sunday concert with The Copley Cats, an all-female a capella group, will be he...
• The Library will be closed Thanksgiving Day November 24 and will close at 2 PM...
• The National Book Award winners were announced last night. Jesmyn Ward won the f...
• Join us tonight for our FREE Lecture Series @ 7pm in HELM Auditorium in Natick...
• Coming Saturday!
• Spend 5 Minutes with Dr. Brianne Mahoney OB/GYN
• Check out what's new on the Teens' Room webpage. Librarian Nina Hernandez Taylor...
• Join Miss Susan Wednesday November 16, at 10:30 am in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall...
• This month's morning book discussion group will be Wednesday November 16 at 11 A...
• Kirkus ("the world's toughest book critics") pick the best fiction of 2011. Book...
• Exhibiting their work during November and December in the Left and Right Galleri...
• The books due out next week.
• We proudly remember past heroes who have secured the freedoms that we all are pr...
• Our concert with Jake Shimabukuro on December 17 is sold out, so we are happy Ja...
• Francis Foley shows the poster made by students at Kennedy Middle School during...
• Will Jenkins, a veteran of the Iraq War, right, shows students pictures from his...
• The library's public computers and wireless access will go down at 11:40 AM and...
• The Library will be closed Friday November 11 in honor of Veterans Day. The par...
• The library's public computers and wireless access will be down for a short time...
• Librarians at Morse perform magic!
• The Library will serve as a warming center tonight for people without heat. The...
• Creative Connections presents The Proper Patient of 1900 with Myrtle Mills, a Vi...
• Owing to staff illness, there will be no Childrens' Dept. preschool film fest on...
• Calling all TEENS: Come see Nina in the Teen Room on Halloween between 4 & 9 PM...
• Thank you to all the teens who made Halloween bookmarks this past week! The Book...
• You don’t have to be a superhero to save lives…. Donate blood today, Halloween,...
• Join us this Thursday, November 3 at 7 pm in Perini Auditorium (115 Lincoln Stre...
• Happy Halloween everyone!
• The power is ON at TCAN, and the TCAN Players are loading in the sets for next w...
• "There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the...
• Tomorrow is the annual Spooktacular on the Common sponsored by Natick Recreation...
• A behind the scenes look at yesterday's photo shoot!
• Pitch Slapped was featured on NBC-TV's The Sing-Off and appears this weekend at...
• Did you run home from school in the late 60s to watch "Dark Shadows"? Did you se...
• Please join us for our Octoberfest Blood Drive! TODAY, October 26th (Noon - 7...
• Start your day with a laugh.
• The title says it all, but this site has a great interactive flowchart to find y...
• Several new titles have been added to the Online Newsstand at morseinstitute.org...
• The Wednesday Evening Book Group meets this Wednesday October 26 from 7 to 8:30...
• Eeks n' Creeeaks Bedtime Storyhour will be this Wednesday October 26 at 6:30 pm...
• Reserve your space now for Que Sera, Seurat! a pastel workshop for adults age 18...
• We launch our new direction in classical music today, with the first concert of...
• Zombies help you learn all about library research as they pursue you through the...
• Check out Graham Parker from the Late Show with David Letterman. Then see him to...
• Graham Parker couples punk's energy with his deeply rooted love of American R&B,...
• These are some of the books due out next week.
• Be not just a fantastic reader but be a fanatic reader.
• The Library will be closed this Friday October 21 for Staff Development Day.
• The Morning Book Group meets every third Wednesday of the month at 11 AM for tea...
• Join Miss Susan Wednesday October 19, at 10:30 am in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall f...
• Money School is a free seminar for teens to learn how to develop good financial...
• The Library will be closed this Friday October 21 for Staff Development Day.
• Reserve your space now for Que Sera, Seurat! a pastel workshop for adults age 18...
• David Sanborn, one of the most respected sax players of our time performs at TCA...
• It's Teen Read Week. Download this gorgeous (and enlightening) poster to celebrate.
• Floodwood tonight at TCAN
• Here are the new books to look forward to next week.
• If you're looking for something to do Saturday...and it's all free.
• October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and MetroWest Medical Center has Walk I...
• Giving Healthy Living the Green Light! Free lecture series at MetroWest Medical...
• Is one of these your favorite? Mine is Diabolique, the 1955 original with Simone...
• Natick Artists Open Studios is holding their 10th anniversary group show at the...
• Our annual benefit with Shawn Colvin was a huge success! Thanks to everyone for...
• Money School is a free seminar for teens to learn how to develop good financial...
• "If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there's be a sho...
• It's a sad day. The Stat Abs was always one of our favorite reference books.
• Always be careful because online, your life can be an open (Face)book.
• Grant awarded by MathWorks
• Tonight at 7 PM author John Katz will be speaking on his new book _Dogs & Humans...
• Really looking forward to Barnstar on December 9. A cool newgrass project with M...
• A question for you all: how did you originally discover TCAN?
• Several highly anticipated books are due out next week.
• The Library will be closed Sunday October 9 and Monday October 10 in honor of Co...
• If you enjoy urban geography and history or just walking the streets of Boston,...
• John Katz on Dogs & Humans and…Going Home, a moving presentation by the NY Times...
• Today is the 135th anniversary of the founding of the American Library Associati...
• Tonight the banner will be hoisted in The Garden. You can read all about the Bru...
• Young Dubs tonight at TCAN!
• Autism Alliance of Metrowest has their offices in the Library. Their mission is...
• The Library will be closed Sunday October 9 & Monday October 10 in honor of Colu...
• Did you know...that in FY2011 the Library had 186 volunteers putting in 4676 hou...
• A while back we linked to information about the controversy involving Greg Morte...
• Get creative with artists from Natick Artists Open Studios on Wednesday October...
• Join Miss Susan Wednesday October 5, at 10:30 am in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall fo...
• Photographer Sarah Egener has her work on display in the Right and Left First Fl...
• Today MetroWest Medical Center welcomed new employees to Team MetroWest at our m...
• It's that time of year again. Need new ideas for Halloween decorations or pumpki...
• The Natick Historical Society kicked off its Henry Wilson bicentennial celebrati...
• On this day in 1869 Gandhi was born. In India the day is celebrated as a nationa...
• Here are some of the big books due out this week.
• MWMC Employees: It's Canoe Race Day! 14 canoes containing 56 employees will be...
• Due to staff illness, the Children's Room will be closed Thursday September 29 f...
• Happy Birthday Jerry Lee.
• The Natick Historical Society is kicking off the celebration of the Henry Wilson...
• Due to staff illness, the Children's Room will be closed Thursday September 29 f...
• The Virtual Gallery through October is displaying Jay Ball’s outside-the-box PLA...
• This sounds like the real low-down, and not your typical list of things to do. I...
• Here's the brand new trailer for Janet Evanovich's One for the Money. Funny how...
• Did you see our baby photo contest winner?
• September is Library Card Sign-Up Month. Visit the Bookmobile at the Cole Center...
• Discover the Science of Bubbles today at 3:30 p.m. Thanks to a generous grant fr...
• Happy Birthday Shel Silverstein. You can read one of his books here:
• It's Banned Books Week. Celebrate by reading one of these
• Today we were pretty jazzed to get a pre-release of Susan Werner's new live CD,...
• The Morning Book Group meets every third Wednesday of the month at 11 AM for tea...
• This behind the scenes look at the Friends setting up for their big book sale gi...
• Natick Artists Open Studios, Mixed Media is on display in the Lebowitz Meeting H...
• While you were asleep the sun crossed the equator and left the northern hemisphe...
• MWMC is looking for volunteers for our 12th Annual Flutie 5K on September 25th a...
• The Friends will be needing help this weekend on Sunday from 3 to 5 PM packing u...
• The next Wednesday Evening Book Group will be September 28 at 7 pm in the Commun...
• The ginormous Friends of the Library Book & Music Sale is this weekend : Saturda...
• Good news for Kindle users. They will soon be able to download audiobooks from O...
• October 15 at TCAN...
• Silver Apple Bedtime Storyhour is a drop in, no registration required, 45 minute...
• Join Miss Susan tomorrow, Wednesday September 21, at 10:30 am in the Lebowitz Me...
• Watch for this commercial on FOX!
• Our baby photo contest finalists are posted! Watch for the winner this Friday!
• MetroWest Center for Special Surgery invites you to attend our Open House on Sep...
• MetroWest Medical is having a Prostate Cancer Screening on 9/21/11 from 4-6pm @...
• Job Loss : A Financial Survival Guide, with Lyman Jackson of the Financial Plann...
• It's official. August's Food for Fine$ campaign sent 4031 pounds of food to the...
• Avast ye scurvy sea dogs. Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Find ou...
• September is National Library Card Sign-Up month.
• Did you know....the Library circulated 567,076 items in FY2011? And every item t...
• This Sunday, September 18, at 2 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall of the Library t...
• Here are the noteworthy books due out next week.
• Today is National Play-Doh Day. Celebrate by making a little jack-o-lantern for...
• The nationwide search for the next great undiscovered drummer is back. TCAN's Da...
• Mark your calendar for the BIG Friends of the Library Book Sale Saturday & Sunda...
• Literacy Unlimited needs volunteers to teach adults English (ESOL). Training beg...
• Did you know.........that the Library has 183,701 items in its collection (FY201...
• Job Loss : A Financial Survival Guide, with Lyman Jackson of the Financial Plann...
• This Saturday! 10am-2pm We hope you will join us!
• A Catie Curtis CD Release Party? Her only Boston area appearance? Every CC show...
• Some of the big books due out this week.
• The Wednesday Evening Book Group will meet September 28 from 7 to 8:30 PM in the...
• You can read about the search dog heroes of Sept 11 and view a slideshow from th...
• We will never forget.
• Agree? Disagree?
• “I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be fo...
• In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the upcoming Natick Artists Open Studi...
• Inexpensive...never crashes...no batteries...can still be used when the electric...
• After Labor Day you have to stop wearing white shoes but on the bright side the...
• Tune into WGBH 89.7 tonight and you will hear selections from Christian Scott's...
• Natick artist Denise Girardin will be at the Library Saturday, September 10th fo...
• Natick Days is this coming Saturday 11 am to 4 pm downtown. Natick Days is a fes...
• Join Miss Susan tomorrow at 10:30 am in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall for the first...
• This article pretty much says all that needs to be said. And even though it's re...
• Creative Connections presents Judy Bernstein in her one-woman show Great America...
• Our Fall hours begin this week: Monday - Thursday 10 am - 9 pm Friday & Saturday...
• Happy Labor Day, everyone!
• Colonial Nonantum Hill: Praying Indians and Revolutionaries
• Slabs, Sherwoods, and Splits—Natick Housing 1945-1960
• “There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Libra...
• Sweet 1,600!!!! thanks to all our friends!
• A reminder that the Library will be closed Labor Day Weekend, Saturday September...
• Big fans and dehumidifiers blaring all day as we work to dry out the basement. R...
• We've always known this but it's nice to have it written down for everyone to see.
• What are middle school boys and girls reading?
• September is National Library Card Sign-up Month. Do you have yours? It's the sm...
• On this day in 1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still was released and went on to be...
• And the Kingston Trio would go on to fame recording the song "Charlie on the MTA"
• Kennedy Middle School will open Thursday.
• Can you guess the most popular title?
• This page has a link to the latest update on power restoration estimates. Curren...
• MetroWest Medical Center's Beautiful Beginnings Baby Contest & Fair! Saturd...
• The calm after the storm : sunset over Fiske Pond, taken by Maureen Sullivan.
• Hurricane Irene hit TCAN pretty hard...the old basement walls of the Firehouse c...
• Natick Public Schools will be open on Wednesday, August 31 with the exception of...
• The Library will be closed for the Labor Day Weekend Saturday September3 through...
• NStar has posted a list of towns still without power and the estimated completio...
• Susan Werner's 2011 appearance at TCAN was a gem, and she has decided to release...
• From Framingham Patch: Latest power update has 85,000 people in Massachusetts w/...
• From Framingham Patch: Heavy bands of rain heading into Framingham for the next...
• Thank you to Framingham Patch for keeping everyone well informed and up to date...
• Just a reminder, that the Governor has declared a state of emergency for this st...
• Reports of the demise of the book are greatly exaggerated. The gold standard is...
• This looks like a useful little tool to put all your PDFs on your eReader.
• Let's get back to books because we're ready to say Good Night (and good-bye), to...
• The Big Blue Marble. Be sure to look at the dramatic time-lapse NASA satellite i...
• The Town Administration informs us that this is an excellent site for informatio...
• The Town of Natick has posted Hurricane Irene information on the town website: h...
• The Natick Bookmobile gets a mention in this article. Ours has been in continuou...
• How many digits are there on a Minuteman library card bar code? IM (instant mes...
• From the Irony Department : a Reliable Source tells us that the dedication of th...
• The 2011 Hugo Awards were announced last weekend at Renovation, the 2011 World S...
• Who are the youngest and oldest players currently playing for the Red Sox? IM (i...
• If anyone needs a refresher course in New England weather history, here is a bri...
• Today is the fifth anniversary of Pluto's demotion from a planet to a dwarf plan...
• On this day in 1951 the first segment of Route 128 opened. Before it was the Tec...
• Back to School for Natick - Bus Schedules, Lunch Menus, School Supplies and more
• New books due out this week. Does the cover of The Keeper of Lost Causes look fa...
• More translations of book jacket blurbs. Hilarious and so true.
• Tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, oh my! We're in a busy meteorologic/geologic...
• We created a Pandora radio station called "TCAN - Radio Natick" by listing artis...
• Marty Kangaroo and a Healthy YOU! An original cartoon created to share healthy...
• Spend 5 Minutes with Dr. Katherine Hein, Plastic Surgeon!
• Do you know what a ton of food looks like? Food for Fine$ in August has delivere...
• Finally! Someone is willing to talk about what in the book world we know has bee...
• Morse Institute Library Trivia Contest A new movie came out this month, based on...
• This is an excellent article by Robert Lipsyte, much food for thought and severa...
• Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies this week is _Gnomeo and Juliet_, a Walt Disne...
• So far this month, library patrons have donated over 1,500 pounds of food to the...
• Today is Christopher Robin's birthday. Celebrate with tea and honey.
• "Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card!" Thank you to the Bacon F...
• Well as it turns out, we missed Drop Everything and Read Day which is celebrated...
• And if you want to read her books, or watch her videos check here
• We learned a new word today. This article is about saving a bookstore.
• You care about live music and theatre. You feel that this is important. When you...
• Vote for your top 10 favorite teen novels from the list of nominees.
• The Young People's Library Presents...Preschool Film Fest, a 30 minute program o...
• Pre-Register your baby for our Photo Contest today!
• What do you think?
• Here are some of the books due out next week.
• As of today the August Food for Fine$ program has delivered 1,411 pounds of item...
• The votes are in.
• Opera del West presents the Magic Flute this Friday at 8pm and this Sunday at 2pm.
• Has Amazon bested Apple at its own game? People who like eBooks will be the winn...
• Join us for our Beautiful Beginnings Baby Contest & Fair! Saturday, September 17...
• You can find his work in the Minuteman Catalog here:
• Abel Benson was the son of a former slave and at the age of nine became the Blac...
• Begun by the US Administration on Aging, the Pension Rights Center provides free...
• Spend 5 Minutes with Lisa Capra, MD - Pediatric Hospitalist!
• Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies will be Megamind at 2:30 PM in the Lebowitz Me...
• Today is National Book Lover's Day. What is your favorite book?
• On this day in 1961 President John F. Kennedy signed a bill authorizing the crea...
• “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own...
• NPR is looking for your votes for a top 100 best-of-all-time science fiction and...
• It was the terrific vocals of Mark Stein, Vince Martell and Carmine Appice that...
• VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates) publishes a free weekly column of reviews from t...
• Still riding high on the success of Hitman, N.Y. Times bestselling author and lo...
• A question for everyone: Do you use Groupon and would you be interested in getti...
• Here at the Library we read a lot of reviews. It's nice to have a handy cheat sh...
• On Monday 486 pounds of food and personal care items were delivered to the Natic...
• For those of you who missed - or who made it to - last Saturday's Smithereens co...
• Don't miss Paisley Project tonight at TCAN.
• Their hits include Imaginary Lover, Champagne Jam and Spooky, and they are among...
• Here are the big books due out next week.
• Are you a fan of horror literature? Booklist Online this month is featuring horr...
• On this day in 1892...if you want to read more about Lizzie Borden, try
• The Young People's Library Presents...Preschool Film Fest, a 30 minute program o...
• At the age of 10 Natick’s Abigail Smith was a heroine of the Revolution. Upon he...
• Today's "All by Myself" storytime for young listeners is "Island Adventure" at 1...
• Poor Crusher...if he'd only known that he can return overdue books in August and...
• This is National Simplify Your Life Week. Here are some resources:
• MetroWest Medical Center welcomes 24 new employees to Team MetroWest at new hire...
• Shark Week starts tonight. The Library has A LOT of material on sharks. They're...
• Smithereens ROCKED the house...a few pics later today...
• Tomorrow is National Cheesecake Day. Here's a collection of recipes to peruse.
• Food for Fine$ at the Library begins Monday. But we've been receiving donations...
• Here are some of the books due out next week.
• The Saturday Sit-With-Me drop-in story and craft time is the World Lumberjack Ch...
• The Tubes at TCAN? Should we go for it?
• I love the last line of this essay: "Sure, the library is an old fashioned conce...
• We now have a collection of books in Hindi in the Language Center, or check the...
• Check out 5 Minutes with a Physician! We are talking to Dr. Michael Brunelli about Specialty Surgery!
• Tomorrow's Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies feature will be Legend of the Guardians: Owls of Ga'Hoole at 2:30 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall. This Warner Bros. animated feature is 97 minutes long and is rated PG. Soren attempts a daring escap
• The Library's Food for Fine$ Program is moving from the holiday season to August to meet an immediate & critical need among our neighbors. The Natick Service council currently helps over 1300 residents, including 500 children, and NSC needs help
• Sign-up begins today in the Children's Library for the Scott Kepnes Family Concert with songs & stories from around the world, a sing-along, hand-clapping & foot-stomping good time. The fun will begin at 10:30 am Friday August 12 in the Lebo
• Overheard at the Circulation Desk : "Summer...you don't have to shovel it."
• Why does TCAN do what we do? We believe the arts are essential to a complete human experience and to the creation of a vibrant, healthy community. So we work to create opportunities to experience, participate in, and learn about the arts. It's our
• The Children's Library used to show this film every summer. So here it is again as sort of a public service announcement.
• The Library will again be open extended hours today, 10am to 8pm. We'll be showing movies all day in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall: 10:15am: Tangled ; Noon: Up ; 1:45pm: How to Train Your Dragon ; 3:45pm Sorcerer's Apprentice ; 6pm: Singing in the
• I guarantee that watching this video will cool you off. Thank you Natick Patch for posting it.
• Tonight's movie in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall is The Wizard of Oz. Start time is 5:30 PM. We'll be open tonight until 8 PM if you need a place to cool off. Please spread the word.
• Also new in the museum passes is Tower Hill Botanic Garden which admits four people for free. It is located in Boylston, Mass and you can find out more about the garden at
• The Library now has the USS Constitution Museum pass which admits a group of up to nine people for free. The Museum is located at the Charlestown Navy Yard and you can find out more about it at
• The Town has asked the Library to stay open late this Friday and Saturday, July 22 & 23, as a cooling center for people who’d like to get out of the heat. Our extended hours will be Friday open until 8pm and Saturday open 10am to 8 pm. There
• Stay cool!
• Follow construction progress of the new Natick High School.
• Let's hear it for the TCAN Players, nominated for an EMACT DASH award for excellence in community theatre! The Players' production of "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" was nominated for Best Ensemble Performance in a Music
• There will be a Storytime for Young Listeners "all by myself" Friday July 22 at 10:30 am in the Children's Library. This is a 45 minute drop-in for children ages 3, 4, & 5 ; caregivers will remain in the Children's Room. Special g
• Richard Philben's photography is on display in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall this summer. His landscapes and wildlife photos reflect his love of nature and many were taken here in Natick, where he grew up and attended school.
• Just another reminder that we're fully air conditioned and open until 9 PM today and Thursday if you need a cool place to stay. And if you know someone who needs a cool place, please let them know we're here. We have wi-fi and internet computer
• The Library is a cool place to hang out today.
• Toni Jo Richards is one of the artists on display at the Library this summer. Her works include pastels, monotype and paintings in other media. Toni lives in Dover and has a studio in Medfield. Left Gallery, First Floor.
• The Natick Art Walk is Thursday, July 21, from 5-8:30 pm. Sponsored by Natick Center Associates.
• Check out our latest episode of MSN: MetroWest Stories Now!
• Cinquante livres écrits en Français ont été ajoutés à la Collection des oeuvres en Langues Etrang ères au deuxième étage de la Bibliothèque.
• The Young People's Library Presents...Preschool Film Fest, a 30 minute program of movies for preschool age children. Registration is not required and this Wednesday (7/20) the films will be Danny and the Dinosaur, Mirette on the High Wire and This L
• One of the photographers exhibiting in the library this summer is Jim Linsky who grew up in Natick and taught math at NHS. Many of his vibrant photos were taken on Martha's Vineyard where he studied under Alison Shaw. Right Gallery, First Floor.
• "All of the life-changingly awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open." – Mo Willems
• Sixty years ago this month Catcher in the Rye was published. It has been not only one of the most heavily censored books but also one of the most frequently listed best books. You can read it as an adult,
• Here are some of the books due out this coming week.
• Farren-Butcher, Inc. will be performing a full band show at TCAN on November 19. They will also be doing an opening set for the upcoming shows featuring The Smithereens and Vanilla Fudge!
• Have you been to a show at TCAN in 2011? Please take a sec to post a review on Yelp.com. Tell the world about TCAN!
• Congratulations to William P. Castelli, M.D., of The Heart Center of MetroWest, Framingham, MA for winning the SCCT Arthur S. Agatston Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Award, designed to promote the prevention of death from heart disease by recognizing
• Here's an old-fashioned idea that appears to be working for community branch libraries. It's noteworthy that it is happening in this part of Massachusetts.
• Today is Bastille Day. Happy le quatorze juillet !
• Christian Scott is a brilliant young jazz trumpeter that appeared on Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon recently. He was named Best International Jazz Artist of 2010 by the Edison Foundation. Christian Scott brings his group to TCAN on Sept 17.
• One of the artists exhibiting in the Library this summer is Janice Murray, a self-taught photographer. Through her eyes see the "beauty...found in the everyday." In the Virtual Gallery, First Floor.
• Tangled, the story of a charming bandit hiding out in a mysterious tower and taken hostage by a beautiful and feisty teen with 70 feet of magical golden hair is tomorrow's first summer Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies at 2:30 PM in the Lebowitz Mee
• Before there was Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin created an equally complex superhero world in Wild Cards, wherein an alien bomb distributes a genetic virus and people become either Aces, blessed with superhero qualities, or Jokers, disfigured mental
• Learn about Lyme Disease - Spend 5 Minutes with Dr. Thomas Treadwell!
• Let's travel back in time to those days of yesteryear...January 11, 2011 : this is how the Library looked. When we were all longing for days like today.
• August 5 Paisley Project makes a special appearance at TCAN. Let there be summer!
• "Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence
• One of the most eagerly awaited books this summer, thanks to the HBO smash hit series, Game of Thrones.
• Your Board and Fundraising, a free webinar from the Foundation Center, will be held in the Community Room Tuesday July 12 from 1:45 PM to 3 PM. This class will help you think through the process of getting your board involved in fundraising. For more inf
• Sign-up begins today in the Children's Library for "Barnyard Dance," a program for boys and girls ages 3 - 8, presented by the Wheelock Family Theatre Story Troupers. This is a 45 minute performance by an ensemble of teenage actors studyin
• People ask us about keeping up with new books online and here is one way: Lesa is a librarian and reviewer and her blog is mostly about mysteries of all kinds, with author interviews, sidebar discussions and read-a-like suggestions.
• Romance Writers of America has announced the 2011 RITA award winners. Check your reading list at
• About to start this book. Frankenstein and Dracula rolled up into one and, of course, "...paranoia regarding our iPhones, computers, and higher-end toasters." Be careful of those high-end toasters.
• Rest in Peace, Betty Ford (1918-2011) You can read all about her at
• The Reference Desk is moving. Starting July 18, we will be providing reference services across from the main elevator on the 2nd floor (formerly the Local History area). Visit us at our new location with any of your information needs. We're always
• One of the artists exhibiting this summer in the Library is Xandra Roman, a Natick resident and ceramics student at UMass Dartmouth. Her glazed stoneware reflects her belief that "art should be appreciated by everyone, not just fellow artists"
• Coming up July 22, James Montgomery will be joined by local favorite George McCann on lead guitar, and David Hull on bass. David has been playing with Aerosmith recently, subbing for the recuperating Tom Hamilton. David also released his debut CD late la
• Freegal (rhymes with legal) is our downloadable DRM-free MP3 music database available to all Natick residents. Go to www.morseinstitute.org and click on the logo. Do you use it? Do you like it? Should we keep it?
• Librarians don’t know everything…. they just know where to find everything
• Happy Birthday Ringo Starr! Was he your favorite Beatle?
• *This* is porn for booklovers. Would this hold your collection?
• Here is a great example of a webpage ad for a new book Map of Time is garnering praise for its combination of intertwined stories, time-travel with the possibility of changing history, and pure chiller-thriller suspense. And apparently the book cover
• Thanks and welcome to our newest business sponsor, the Morse Tavern in downtown Natick. Less than a half mile from TCAN, you can have traditional pub fare for dinner and make it to the show in about 4 minutes flat. Thanks to the Morse Tavern for supporti
• MWMC Milford is now offering walk in digital mammography appointments from 9-11am Monday-Friday!
• The Summer Preschool Film Fest, a 30-minute program for preschool age children, starts tomorrow in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall at 10:30 AM. The movies showing are All the Colors of the Earth ; A Boy, a Dog and a Frog ; and The Story about Ping.
• Creative Connections Summer Potluck will be tomorrow at Noon in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall. Bring a salad, light dish or dessert and enjoy chatting with old friends or meeting new ones while sampling. There's always plenty to eat so come anyway even
• Today at 10:30 AM is the first drop-in "all by myself" Summer Storytime for children ages 3, 4, & 5. Children are invited to attend on their own while caregivers remain close by in the Children's Room. Today is "Pandas on Parade,&
• Happy Fourth of July everyone! Happy Birthday America!
• Fifty years ago today Ernest Hemingway died.
• All about the Library's summer reading program in the Bulletin & Tab.
• Registration begins today in the Children's Library for the program Take a Magical Trip with Ed the Wizard across the world and through history, for families with children ages 4 to 10 which will be on Friday July 15 at 10:30am in the Lebowitz Meeti
• “Who Let The Dogs Out?” Behavioral Medicine, Of Course! Watch for the Pet Therapy Dogs in the Natick 4th of July Parade on Monday, July 4th!
• The Wall St. Journal has a thorough round--up of all the usual suspects of our favorite detectives and how they face (or don't) aging. Buried in the article: mystery and detective books are the top sellers.
• The Text a Librarian Trivia Contest question for Friday July 1 is: forty years ago today, the United States gained an additional 11 million voters overnight. How? Text us your answer at 508-318-8165 and if correct, you'll be entered into a raffle fo
• A reminder that in honor of the Fourth of July holiday, the library will be closed Saturday July 2 through Monday July 4.
• Family Night on the Common with the Bookmobile.
• The Text a Librarian Trivia Contest question for Thursday June 30 is: today, the last day of June is Thursday. What other month ended on a Thursday this year? Text us your answer at 508-318-8165 and if correct, you'll be entered into a raffle for fr
• Tonight is Family Night on the Common from 5 to 8 PM. All the Natick Fourth of July events can be found at and their Facebook page is
• Last night's Davis Bates & Roger Tincknell concert. A good time was had by all.
• Summerfest Blood Drive TODAY Noon-7:30p in MacPherson Hall at 85 Lincoln St. Framingham! Donate blood & help save a life!
• The Library is all dressed up for the Fourth of July. Thank you Natick Garden Club.
• The Text a Librarian Trivia Contest question for Wednesday June 29 is: how many times does the word "library" appear on the History of the Library page, Text us your answer at 508-318-8165 and if correct, you'll be entered into a raffle
• Join us for our annual Summerfest Blood Drive June 29th, Noon-7:30p in MacPherson Hall at 85 Lincoln St. Framingham!
• Spend 5 Minutes with Electrophysiologist, Patrick Blomberg, MD
• The Text a Librarian Trivia Contest question for Tuesday June 28 is: today is the United States' opening game in what international sports competition? Text us your answer at 508-318-8165 and if correct, you'll be entered into a raffle for free
• Registration for the Lego Summer Clubs begins Tuesday June 28 in the Young People's Library, so visit or call 508-647-6522 to enroll. All the information about the clubs can be found here:
• Summer Health Tip! Keep your energy up by limiting sweets and focusing on fresh summer fruits & vegetables, whole grains & healthy protein.
• Summer Health Tip! Don't push yourself beyond your physical limits or let overexertion squash your energy. Schedule time to rest and relax!
• Summer Health Tip! Drink plenty of water. When heat and humidity are high, it's easy to become dehydrated - drink 8 glasses of water a day!
• Do you believe Amazon's reviewers? Do you buy books based on Amazon reviews? Amazon will also include reviews from peer-reviewed professional journals like Publishers Weekly and Library Journal and these are the ones you can use to make an informed
• “Who Let The Dogs Out?” Behavioral Medicine, Of Course! Watch for the Pet Therapy Dogs in the Natick 4th of July Parade on Monday, July 4th!
• Text a Librarian Daily Trivia Question for Monday June 27 is: in the United States, we celebrate Independence Day one week from today on July 4. What country celebrates its independence day today, on June 27? Text your answer to 508-318-8165.
• Tomorrow, Tuesday June 28, Davis Bates & Roger Tincknell will be here for Under One Sky : A Multi-Cultural Celebration with songs and stories for all ages. No registration is necessary and it all begins at 7 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall.
• Text a Librarian Daily Trivia Contest. Each day next week we'll post a trivia question on Text us your answer at 508-318-8165 and if correct, you'll be entered into a raffle for free ice cream! We'll notify winners via text message durin
• Students (and parents) : this is a much better list than what the teachers gave you for the summer. Read a book you like and pretty soon you read another one looking for the same enjoyment. Suddenly you do well on the SATs from all that reading and bam!
• Here are some of the books due out next week.
• Also on Monday registration begins for A Cinquain Poetry and Fold-Out Book Workshop with Yetti Frankel, a program for young writers and artists which will be held in the Storycraft Room, Lower Level Friday July 8 from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm. See for all t
• The theme of this year's Children's Summer Reading Program is "One World Many Stories" and it all kicks off Monday June 27 when registration opens. See for the variety of events and programs for children. Some require advance registr
• The Natick Schools Summer Reading Lists for grades 1 through 8 are posted here :
• On this day, June 24 in 1675, Wampanoag warriors killed seven colonists in Swansea in retaliation for a series of injustices suffered at the hands of the English. This raid is generally considered the beginning of King Philip's War, a bloody conflic
• J.K. Rowling announces her new venture, Pottermore.
• School's out and it's that time of year again...the Summer Reading Lists. You can find the Middle School and High School lists here:
• A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. -- Tyrion Lannister in A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
• At first we're thinking "Oh, no, not another list." But looking it over, organized by subject, what isn't included? Have you read many of these? As a curriculum, this would make at least a Masters level college education. And you coul
• The Library's morning book discussion group will not meet during July and August but will resume September 21 with The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. Copies of the book are available at the circulation desk.
• This is one of those sleeper sensations of a book that is showing how relentless casual cruelty can be devastating.
• Going Green Tip: Turn off coffee pots, televisions and similar pieces of equipment when they are not in use!
• There has always been a fascination with Quabbin.
• Hey everyone, if you've been to TCAN in the last year we would really appreciate some reviews on Yelp.com. Did you see Peter Wolf, Roger McGuinn, Jesse Colin Young? Kaki King? George Winston? Please post a review!
• It is another beautiful day! Happy 1st day of summer!
• Our newest episode of MSN: MetroWest Stories Now!
• Going Green Tip: When leaving your office for the evening, turn off computers, monitors, printers and photocopiers, or put them on standby!
• Art Walk at Historic Natick Center
• Senator Richard Moore, senate chair of the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Health Care Financing, was recently presented with the “Legislator of the Year Award” from the Massachusetts Podiatric Medical Society (MPMS). Dr. Donald Adams, chie
• The best in healthcare for Massachusetts employees and their families.
• These are recommended reads by Massachusetts authors, from the Massachusetts Center for the Book.
• “Who Let The Dogs Out?” Behavioral Medicine, Of Course! Watch for the Pet Therapy Dogs in the Natick 4th of July Parade on Monday, July 4th!
• Tomorrow, Tuesday June 21 there will be a Guide to Online Grantseeker Resources in the Community Room at 12:45 PM. Learn to navigate the Foundation Center's new website to help you get grants. Bring your laptop. See for more info.
• And now the politically incorrect Fathers Day gift... this book is hot, hot, hot! and available as a free audio "for a limited time." What started as a lark became a huge bestseller.
• To all the Dads : Happy Father's Day !
• Did you know why it was called a Duck Boat?
• If you are still looking for a gift for Dad, you can't go wrong here.
• June is the time to become a member of the Natick Service Council or renew your membership. They receive no local, state or federal funding.
• YBA is looking for Teen Testers
• The reclusive Graham Parker performs at TCAN on Saturday October 22. A rare chance to see GP in an intimate venue. Only 250 seats available, will you be in one of them?
• Harry Potter news...breaking...
• Want to know what the 2011 World Champion Stanley Cup winning Boston Bruins like to read? See it here:
• The Cup is back in town ! Thank you Bruins.
• Father's Day is upon us. A book makes a great gift.
• We love this article on "speculative" fiction. Not in the least because it takes down a notch the people who read only "literary fiction." The library has them all, so place your reserves !
• On Wednesday July 6 Creative Connections is hosting a Summer Potluck at noon in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall. Bring a salad, light main course or dessert and enjoy chatting with your friends and sampling some great dishes. There's always plenty to eat
• Wednesday June 15 will be the last Spring Preschool Film Fest at 10:30 AM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall. This is a 30 minute program and no registration is required. Tomorrow's films will be Blueberries for Sal, Lentil and A Weekend with Wendell.
• Today is Flag Day. On this day in 1777 the Second Continental Congress officially adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag. Happy Birthday Old Glory!
• It's that time of year again...the School Summer Reading Lists. You can find the Middle School and High School lists here:
• In honor of the Bruins, the Boston Public Library has published a set of hockey photos from the Leslie Jones collection
• A nice article about Natick's Veterans Oral History Project.
• Ceremonies at 6 PM conclude The Moving Wall's visit here. Did you know that the reading of the 58,267 names on the Wall has never been done outside of Washington DC, and there only 3 times? The efforts of Natick Pegasus and Cary Holmes from the Libr
• Restoring Historic Windows at Natick Historical Society
• New photos have been added to The Moving Wall website.
• June is National Safety Month! MWMC Employees - be sure to check out the Safety for Life posters throughout our hospitals!
• If you haven't already gotten your tickets for the July 30 Smithereens show, they're going fast... Can't wait to hear the new album.
• Did you wear a POW/MIA bracelet in the '70s? Do you still have it? Read this story about a woman who wore hers for almost 40 years. At the end are resources about finding information about the person who's name you had, and the history of the b
• More photos from Natick Patch, including pictures inside the tent of the displays, and information about the Natick men who were killed in the Vietnam War.
• Opening ceremonies are today at 6 PM. The website has the complete schedule and a map of the area showing parking.
• The Bookmobile will be at the Relay for Life on Saturday June 11 from 3 to 6 PM, in the parking lot off Union Ave. The Relay this year is at Bowditch Field. Check out a book (bring your card, please), or just come in to cool off. Rose will have games and
• It may be hot as the hinges of you-know-what outside but in the library we're all chillin with the AC. So come on over and get out of the heat. We've got computers, wireless, lots of books and magazines to read, and various nooks and crannies t
• The Wall St Journal published a column criticizing contemporary young adult fiction as being too dark and depressing. Many YA specialists have countered with their own observations, among them NPR, and EarlyWord, offering a more in-depth appraisal of t
• Today is the anniversary of D-Day. Remembrance services will be at the Library this evening.
• The Young Adult Extravaganza with the Wellesley Books Bookstore at the Wilson Middle School is Tuesday June 7 at 7 PM (doors open at 6 PM) and will showcase Sara Shepard, Maureen Johnson and Sarah Mlynowski to launch Mlynowski's new book Ten Things
• Martha Stewart Living Radio on Sirius is offering a free summer grilling cookbook.
• The next book discussion group will be The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien on Wednesday June 15 at 11 AM in Study Room 1A. For more information, contact Karen Perkins at 508-647-6520 or kperkins@minlib.net
• Another riff on e-books and this from Wired Magazine. In the 1990s it led in the vanguard the coming digital revolution.
• ConGRADulations to Natick High Class of 2011.
• Stop by our blood drive on Mon. 6/6 from 7a-4:30p. All donors will receive a certificate for a free large cheese pizza!
• Check in at Leonard Morse Hospital on Foursquare!
• Check in at Framingham Union Hospital on Foursquare!
• Learn about us on YouTube!
• Follow us on Twitter!
• Tomorrow the Bookmobile will be participating in the 4th Annual Wellesley Mothers Forum Truck & Animal Day, benefiting the Bright Horizons Foundation for Children, held at the Mass Bay Community College parking lot from 9:30am to 12:30pm, featuring a
• Take our survey!
• Now that Natick mercifully escaped damage yesterday, did you know that the first description of a tornado in the New World was a journal entry by Governor Winthrop in 1643? This, and even more obscure tornadic history, will be found at this link.
• Heads up! Tomorrow is National Doughnut Day. You might want to check what Dunkies is offering to celebrate the day.
• Some of the big titles due out this month. Beach Book Season has begun!
• Photos from our 2011 Compassionate Caregiver Awards.
• Minuteman Library Network is holding a patron/customer focus group about eContent (ebooks, audiobooks and other downloadable content) on June 23 at the Wellesley Library from 6 to 7 PM. Sign up here: Other places/times the same day are available as we
• Diane Wallace is leaving the Bacon Free Library to become the director of the Saugus Public Library. We will all miss her friendliness and creativity but wish her all the best in her new endeavor.
• The library will be closing at 8 pm tonight due to the state of emergency declared by Governor Patrick.
• Library staff and patrons spent some time together in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall this evening, waiting out the tornado warning.
• Library summer hours begin this week, effective until September 2. Mondays through Thursdays 10am to 9pm. Fridays 10am to 5pm. Saturdays 10am to 2pm. Closed Sundays.
• Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container. - Unknown
• The Natick Veterans Oral History Project has received a generous donation from Cmdr. E. Andrew Wilde, USNR (Ret.), in memory of Gustavus Ide Jr. to make audio and video interviews available in their entirety on the website. Twenty have been loaded, with
• Monday Memorial Day begins with parade formation and flag raising at 8:30AM at Moran Park (near the train station). The parade commences at 9AM and at 9:15 there will be special ceremonies at the GAR memorial. The full schedule is at and for a history o
• This young band blew our minds last night at our monthly Rock Off Main all-ages show. Couldn't believe this was high school kids. Check it out.
• Is this the official start of outdoor grilling season? Stock up on books at And if you are planning on buying a new outdoor grill, do your research at the Library's Consumer Reports Database.
• A reminder that the Library will be closed Saturday May 28 through Memorial Day Monday May 30. It's going to be a nice weekend to get in a little grass time outdoors.
• This is National Vegetarian Week. We have lots and lots of vegetarian cookbooks and you can see them all listed here: If you prefer to look for recipes and techniques online try the Internet Public Library collection at
• I geek noir fiction. What do you ggek?
• More jobs, higher property values, better schools, increased wages … the public library plays a role in all of it. Many studies support the idea that dollars spent on libraries provide solid economic returns to the community.
• Tomorrow is early release day and that means Game Day sponsored by the Friends of the Library, from noon to 2 PM for grades 5 through 12. Drop-in to the Morse Room, no registration required, and try cards, board games, DDR, Guitar Hero and more. Refreshm
• We just heard that Susan Werner's performance at TCAN back in March will be released as a live concert CD...Susan is also offering a track from the concert for free on her website. Cool!
• There's a slight British bent to this list, but it is still an excellent place to start if you have a reluctant reader or need suggestions for what to read. And even better is that it has books that appeal to boys. Because this list is from AbeBooks
• Spend 5 minutes with Dr. Juan Pablo Richiusa, OB / GYN
• Games Day for grades 5 through 12 will be Thursday May 26 from noon to 2 PM in the Morse Room. This is a drop-in program and no registration is required. There will be lots of games: traditional board games, cards, Dance Dance Revolution, Guitar Hero, ch
• Even the New York Times recognizes the passing of an institution. And nobody from away could understand the appeal of candlepin bowling.
• The Young Adult Extravaganza with the Wellesley Books Bookstore at the Wilson Middle School June 7 at 7 PM (doors open at 6 PM) will showcase Sara Shepard, Maureen Johnson and Sarah Mlynowski to launch Mlynowski's new book Ten Things We Did. All thr
• This coming weekend is Memorial Day Weekend and the Library will be closed Saturday May 28 through Monday May 30.
• This is a video from cnet on using Overdrive to download audiobooks and e-books from the Library.
• One hundred years ago today, the New York Public Library opened its doors.
• YA Extravaganza! Young Adult Panel Features Authors Sara Shepard, Sarah Mlynowski, and Maureen Johnson
• "The largest collection of such historical recordings ever made publicly available for study and appreciation online."
• Don't forget that tomorrow is the Friends of the Library gi-normous extravaganza known as their book and music sale. Saturday 9:30 am - 4:30 pm and Sunday Noon to 3 pm in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall on the Lower Level.
• Help Natick win a chance at a $10K grant to pay for a Fourth of July celebration. Answer 8 questions correctly and win a vote for Natick and help us get one of the grants. GOOGLE and Wikipedia will be your friends!
• Our 2011 Compassionate Caregiver Winner, Kim Kelley, RN!
• Watch our 2011 Compassionate Caregiver Finalist video!
• MetroWest Medical Center was awarded two Lamplighter Awards from the New England Society for Healthcare Communications! An Award of Excellence for our Holiday Card as well as a Silver for our Handwashing Flash Mob!
• For all the parents of high school students, the English Department has published the summer reading list for students entering grades 9 through 12.
• The Library now offers passes to Belkin Family Lookout Farm in South Natick. The pass gives a $5 discount off the $8 fee for up to 4 adults and was generously donated by the Farm. For information about what is going on and hours, see their website, To
• How old is your house? Learn how to research your house's history with the Natick Historical Society and Museum program on Sunday March 22 at 2 PM at the Eliot Church Hall, Route 16, in South Natick. House historian Marian Pierre-Louis, who speciali
• With daily news about the attempts to control the Mississippi floodwaters, this is an historical overview. For books at the library, try and for a silent film of the 1927 flood and its aftermath made by the Army Signal Corps at the Internet Archive:
• Continuing the Spring Preschool Film Fest, Wednesday May 18 at 10:30 AM the Children's Library will be showing Chicken Little, Happy Birthday, Moon & Picnic. It all takes place in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall and no registration is required.
• The Friends of the Library book and music sale is this coming weekend with thousands of books for all ages, music, games and puzzles. Saturday May 21 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM and Sunday May 22 Noon to 3 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall, Lower Level.
• The World Memory Project is the largest free online resource for information about victims and survivors of the Holocaust. And the Jewish Telegraph Agency has opened its archive covering Jewish news around the world from 1923 to the present.
• On this day in 1804 Lewis and Clark left St. Louis Missouri to explore the Northwest land that had been purchased the year before. You can read all about it,
• Plans are firming up for opening ceremonies on June 9 at 6 PM ; see the Moving Wall home page for details. Additional ceremonies will be June 10 at 6 PM, June 11 at Noon and closing ceremonies will be June 12 at 6 PM. The Veterans Council will also be at
• Some of the books due out next week.
• Thanks to Kenneth Foner for a fantastic article on TCAN's Rock Off Main Street youth music program!
• A provocative article in the Chronicle of Higher Education distinguishes between book readers and book owners. Which are you? Maybe both, keeping a physical copy of a book that is meaningful, or used over and over, so that the dogeared, underlined or dis
• Join us tomorrow, May 13th at Noon in Perini Auditorium to find out who this year's Compassionate Caregiver Award winner will be!
• The Library fielded the Bee Morse team at last night's Spelling Bee : Karen Perkins, Jane Finlay and Linda Stetson, Library Director.
• Join us for our Hospital Week Blood Drive TODAY at Framingham Union 8:30a-4:30p, donors will receive (3) meal tickets & refreshments!
• The Online Newsstand at the Morse Institute has added new titles: The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, Discover, National Review, Real Simple, and Sports Illustrated join many other popular titles so you can read the full content online.
• Here is a full-text (free) newspaper database from the Library of Congress that is still being created, but even though Massachusetts newspapers haven't been added yet is still an endlessly fascinating resource one could spend hours exploring. Searc
• On this day in 1894 Martha Graham was born, a woman whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Stravinsky had on music, Picasso had on the visual arts, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture. See
• "Reading for fun, it seems, is the magic ingredient" for scoring well on tests, doing well in school, and career success.
• Minute To Win It comes to Leonard Morse Hospital on 5/12 (11:30-1:30) Do you think you can do it? Come play!
• MWMC Employees, Be sure to check out this week's edition of MSN: MetroWest Stories Now!
• All things Jane Eyre related. If you liked the mood, setting or character development of Jane Eyre, these are movies and books that you might also like.
• The Public Works Department is having an open house Saturday May 14 from 10am to 1pm at 75 West St. Tour the facility, see the fleet and equipment, watch demos, and make truck models, get stickers and other fun stuff for kids of all ages. For more info c
• Literacy Unlimited, a program of volunteers helping adults learn English, is having their annual May Basket raffle. You can purchase tickets at the Framingham or Natick libraries. For more information see
• MWMC is celebrating Hospital Week by having Internal Marketing Fairs in our lobbies from 11a-1p. Natick on 5/10 and Framingham on 5/11!
• Happy Hospital Week!
• Check out MWMC's Nurses in the Community Blood Donor Program who were featured in the Boston Globe!
• The James Beard Cookbook Awards have been announced.
• Happy Mother's Day!
• Down these mean streets...of Metrowest.
• See you tomorrow! Rain or Shine!
• Happy Nurses Day! MetroWest Medical Center would like to thank all of our nurses (and nurses everywhere) for their commitment to the highest quality advanced medicine and personalized care, right here in the communities we serve. MWMC is so lucky to hav
• The passing of a Natick institution.
• The Snowman is due out next week.
• Face Painting, Dancers, Storytellers... oh my! Join us on Saturday for our Health & Wellness Fair from 10am-1pm. It will be fun for the whole family!
• Thank you, Dover Rug! Mahmud Jafri of Dover Rug on Rte 9 donated this beautiful carpet outside the Children's Library. Many, many thanks from the library staff and Board of Trustees.
• Join us on Saturday!
• June 9-12 the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Moving Wall will be in Natick at the High School soccer field. More information can be found at
• Researching the History of Your House
• After her performance at our 2010 Benefit, soooo many people requested we bring back Karla Bonoff that we booked her an early return on Saturday September 24. Tickets on sale to members later this week.
• The publication date of this book is being moved up to next week. Natick has it on order so you can place a reserve. For more books at Natick about Navy SEALs see
• The Children's Choice Book Awards were announced last night. Rick Riordan was voted author of the year. These awards are voted on by kids and there were a half million votes this year.
• John Cheever said "All literary men are Red Sox fans...to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life."
• May 6. Party Larkin. A force greater than nature.
• Oh, what must we do to break through 1,400 Facebook members? C'mon and get your friends on board!
• Creative Connections presents Rita Parisi portraying Zelda Fitzgerald, "The First American Flapper" May 4 at 3 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall. Wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, she was a source for many of his female characters, but also a writer/a
• Continuing the Spring Preschool Film Fest, Wednesday May 4 at 10:30 AM the Children's Library will be showing Curious George Rides a Bike, The Remarkable Riderless Runaway Tricycle and Rosie's Walk. And it all takes place in the Lebowitz Meetin
• Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens is a venerable Washington DC book discussion group that has been around for over 15 years. Comprised of librarians, teachers, & booksellers they discuss and evaluate books and publish annotated
• Our blood donor room opens at 7am tomorrow (5/3). Stop by and save a life!
• Natick Reads Explores Vietnam continues Tuesday May 3 at 7 PM in the Community Room with a discussion of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien a novel comprised of short stories in which the literal becomes the metaphorical in the search for healin
• Happy May Day everyone !
• Please join us today at 3 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall for a free concert of choral music from the Broadmoor Chamber Singers.
• → The Center For Arts Natick (TCAN): Our friend Lori McKenna returns on October 8, tickets on sale to members now.
• Vanilla Fudge live at TCAN? Yes on August 6. Heavy!
• Today is Arbor Day.
• Who saw Ambrosia last night? They blew the room away with classic prog masterpieces like Life Beyond LA and Kamikaze along with the hits. Awesome!
• Here are some of the books due out next week.
• Mystery lovers, here's what you can look forward to later in the year. We'll be buying them all.
• Next week is Children's Book Week !
• You like books, you're on Facebook. You might already use some of these apps.
• On Saturday April 30 the Broadmoor Chamber Singers return to the Library for a spring concert of vocal choral music drawn from classical, jazz, folk, spiritual, gospel and popular music genres. Join us at 3 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall.
• Let's Dance!
• → The Center For Arts Natick (TCAN): We're so excited about Ambrosia...bold music, innovation, top of the bar musicianship...love these guys.
• Yes! Lori McKenna just confirmed for Saturday October 8. We'll get tickets on sale to members later this week. This will be a trio show, with Mark Erelli on guitars and mandolin, Jamie Edwards on keys.
• Our 2011 Compassionate Caregiver Award Finalists are: Kimberly Kelley, RN Karen Mott, RN Tom Trombino, Secretary Congratulations to all our nominees and especially our three finalists! Please plan on attending the 3rd Annual Compassionate Caregiver Awar
• Wednesday April 27 at 10:30 am in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall the Spring Preschool Film Fest will have a 30 minute program of films. No registration is required. The films are Angus and the Ducks, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Make Way for Ducklings.
• Tomorrow the Bacon Free Library in South Natick will be celebrating it's 130th birthday!! Drop by to congratulate them and have a cupcake and place a candle on their cake.
• Next time you drive down Clarendon St. next to the Library, notice that we've moved our book drops up to the curb to make returning books when we are closed easier.
• The purpose of this National Take Back Day is to provide a venue for persons who wanted to dispose of unwanted and unused prescription drugs. National Prescription Drug Take Back Day will take place on Saturday, April 30, 2011, from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
• Tonight at TCAN’s open mic, Bo Veaner, a local singer/songwriter, will be the headline act, with Library Director Linda Stetson accompanying him on one song with her Native American flute. It all starts at 8 PM.
• Galleycat has put together mixtapes of not only the Hugo nominees, but also the best cookbooks of 2010, the Edgar Awards finalists, the ALA Youth Media Awards winners, the best books of 2010 and other award winners.
• The nominees for the 2011 Hugo Award have been announced.
• Your Natick library card gives you online access to Consumer Reports, job hunting help, market research (thinking of starting your own business?), music downloads, popular magazines full-text and so much more. All from home, if you want, but we still lik
• A Study of Small Fluffy Creatures and Library Usage is an oldie but goodie in Libraryland. It's time everyone else got in on the chuckle.
• Here's some news. The Montreal Guitar Trio, an incredible ensemble of musicians, is touring with the California Guitar Trio. They will be making their only Boston area appearance at TCAN on November 18. What should we call this? Guitar Summit? Six-S
• Cheap could mean poorly written, it could also mean inexpensive. It would appear that the latter may be the means by which self-published authors break away from the former and earn recognition based on merit.
• The Library will be closed Easter Sunday April 24.
• Will you pledge to act and save our planet?
• Happy Earth Day! Check out our "Going Green" page to see some of the things MetroWest is doing to help the environment as well as some links and resources for you to "Green" your home!
• We're working on David Bromberg and Bruce Cockburn, any other ideas for fall concerts?
• Trailer for The Help, phenomenally popular novel and book club fave ; the movie is due out August 12th.
• Good news for Kindle users, Amazon will be allowing libraries to borrow their ebooks via OverDrive.
• On April 20 1861 the Natick Observer newspaper editorialized, still not having received word of the fall of Ft. Sumpter: "We would have all Southern Sympathizers know that the Stars and Stripes are flying over Natick and that our "Rifles"
• This is a useful collection development tool librarians use, but anyone interested in the locavore movement will find the books and web resources listed good source material.
• Tomorrow is Earth Day. Love your Mother.
• Join us for our FREE Spring Lecture Series beginning April 28th at Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick!
• For those interested in the allegations regarding Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea, here's an update.
• The Bookmobile will not be going out Wednesday, April 20th.
• The new edition of Arts in the Metro features performances by Charlie Farren and Jon Butcher, including this one with special guest James Montgomery. Check it out.
• A little school vacation week diversion. Thursday April 21 at 2:30 pm the Children's Library will be playing Bingo for Books. No reservations required. For all the details, see
• The book is dead? Long live the book!
• Another memoir is scrutinized for its honesty in retelling events, this one a book group fave. Moreover, it includes allegations of misuse of money donated to his charity.
• Jesse Colin Young is only a few songs in and blowing everyone away. Up On a Ridgetop, That's The Way She Feels About You...voice is FANTASTIC.
• The Library will be closed Sunday and Monday April 17 & 18th in honor of Patriots Day.
• This was written ten years ago (a couple of generations in Internet time) but the principles still apply today.
• Tomorrow is No Fine Friday
• Concluding our celebration of National Library Week, the Library will be open until 9 PM Friday April 15 for a concert with Natick's jazz man David Polansky, in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall at 7 PM. We're here for last minute tax forms, all the re
• Join us!
• Information is just a click away! Thursday April 14 from 1:30 to 2:30 pm come in and learn about new electronic resources available on our website. We will demonstrate Online Newsstand, Consumer Reports Online Plus Cars and Freegal Music Downloading. In
• Wow! Who'd have thought...We must get our black Royal manual out of storage.
• Today's a busy day at the Library. It's fundraiser day at California Pizza Kitchen, the Bookmobile Open House is 2-5 PM on Washington St. (rain location Morse Room), and the Poetry Slam at TCAN at 7 PM. All the particulars can be found at
• The American Library Association has released The State of America's Libraries 2011, available at The Executive Summary is at Two of the most commonly given reasons to use libraries is finding a job and starting a business. Creating lifelong read
• Tomorrow is National Bookmobile Day. From 2 to 5 PM our Bookmobile will be parked on Washington St. beside the Library so you can drop by for a tour, or try a craft, be entertained by Rose, and who knows what other fun she has in store. In case of rain a
• Thank you Natick Garden Club for the lovely pansies filling the urns in front of the old building and reminding us that warm and sunny days are ahead.
• Well, since it *is* National Library Week, we will toot our own horns.
• MetroWest Medical Center has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in computed tomography (CT) as the result of a recent review by the American College of Radiology (ACR). CT scanning — sometimes called CAT scanning — is a noninvasi
• The Semi-Annual Sleep Apnea Information Night Thursday, April 21st, 7:00PM HELM Auditorium, Leonard Morse Hospital Topic: How weight management can help with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) symptoms, how compliance with equipment can help weight managemen
• Town Meeting starts tomorrow night, 7:30PM at Wilson Middle School. You can read the warrant and the FinCom budget recommendations at Watch it live on Natick Pegasus. The Library long range Strategic Plan is available on the Morse Institute website.
• Come to a free drop-in information session for Buying Your First House or Condo on Tuesday April 12 from 6 to 8 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall. Talk to representatives from banking, realty and insurance companies. For more information : call 508-647-652
• MetroWest Medical Center has been honored with a 2011 “Partner for Change, with Distinction” Award from Practice Greenhealth, a national membership organization for health care facilities committed to environmentally responsible operations. T
• Watch our newest episode of MSN: MetroWest Stories Now!
• Tonight at 7 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall Cary Holmes of the Library staff willl talk about the abolitionist history of Natick, events here leading up to the Civil War and the service of Natick men in the war. First begun when reading the records of t
• This is National Library Week and we are celebrating with lots of special programs all week long. See the complete schedule here Friday we'll be waiving fines all day and staying open until 9 PM for a special David Polansky concert at 7 PM.
• It's New Physician Friday! Please welcome Juan Pablo Richiusa, MD, OB/GYN to Team MetroWest!
• Fourteen years ago today on April 8 1997, the "new" renovated and restored Morse Institute Library opened its doors to the public. The original building dating from 1874 was preserved and an all-new facility was created around it. You can read
• Jake Shimabukuro returns to TCAN on December 17. As always, this event is open to the general public...but we offer presale tickets to contributing TCAN members first. Why? We love our members! We couldn't operate without the support they provide.
• Two Old Friends, Mac McHale & Emery Hutchins return to Natick for a Spring concert at the Library on Sunday April 10 at 3 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall. Mac and Emery will sing and play plaintive ballads and foot-stomping shout tunes, soaring mando
• The Natick Historical Society and Museum annual meeting is Sunday April 10 at 2 PM at Eliot Memorial Hall, 40 Eliot St, South Natick. After a short business meeting historic presenter and humorist Dave Downs will delivers a clever mix of history, humor a
• Next week is National Library Week and we'll be celebrating all week with special programs and concerts culminating with a Friday night concert featuring David Polansky. See the complete schedule here
• We're having a fundraiser at California Pizza Kitchen. Bring in this flyer on April 13th, present it to your server when ordering, and 20% of your check will be donated to the Library.
• Currently on display in the Atrium is a collection of kites from Autism Alliance to publicize the 11th Annual Kite Day celebrating Autism Awareness Month, Sunday May 1 from Noon to 4 PM at Bose Mountain in Framingham. For more information about all the k
• Meet Katie Bear Corgi, one of MetroWest Medical Center's Pet Therapy Dogs! Katie Bear is a Pembroke Welsh Corgi and is officially registered as Salt Meadow’s Golden Katie Bear. Katie was born on Cape Cod and lived there until her human mom pi
• One hundred and fifty years ago as the country was facing inevitable war, the Natick Observer Newspaper of April 6, 1851 editorialized "At no time since the darkest period of the Revolution has the existence of our country been in such imminent peri
• If you are a fan of science fiction and/or fantasy, here are some titles to look forward to this year.
• Thursday April 21 at 2:30 pm the Children's Room will be playing Bingo for Books. Bring in a new or gently used children's book by Friday April 15 and trade it in for an admission ticket. Every child will leave the event with a book. If seats a
• Thursday April 21 at 2:30 pm the Children's Room will be playing Bingo for Books. Beginning April 4, you can bring in a new or gently used children's book and trade it in for an admission ticket. Every child will leave the event with a book. If
• It's orientation day! Welcome to MetroWest, team!
• Wednesday April 6 at 10:30 am in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall the Preschool Film Fest will have a 30 minute program of films. A Boy, A Dog and a Frog ; The Caterpillar and the Polliwog ; and Frog on His Own will be shown. No registration required.
• Wednesday April 6 at 3 PM Creative Connections presents Bad Art, Or Is It? with Louise Reilly Sacco, co-author of "The Museum of Bad Art : Masterworks" and director of the Museum of Bad Art, dedicated to the celebration of artistic effort, howe
• Spirit Communication in Natick through a Medium & on your own!
• See what MetroWest Daily News had to say about "guitar goddess" Kaki King - coming to TCAN tonight at 8pm!
• We're showing Ken Burns' Baseball all day in the lobby. Stop by for an inning or two. Or, read about Natick's own Dottie Green at who played for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She's one of the many reasons Natic
• It's New Physician Friday! MWMC Welcomes Dr. Steven Bornstein, Family Practitioner in Millis!
• Meet some of the staff...In Arlington TX it's currently 50 with an expected high of 85, with SW winds 5-10 mph shifting to the west in the PM. Game starts at 4:05 PM on NESN. We're all wearing our favorite team's apparel today and invite y
• A wit once said, "Finish last in your league and they call you Idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you Doctor." Pass this baseball quiz and they will call you Doctor of Baseball :
• Seven new Dr. Seuss stories have been found and will be published in the fall.
• Autism Alliance of Metrowest is having a Childrens Resource Fair sponsored by The 200 Foundation on Saturday April 2 from 11 AM to 3 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall of the Library. All in one room find the best resources for your child : doctors, therapi
• The May issue of Consumer Reports is now available at the Online Newsstand. Home and Yard is the cover story and they rate mowers and tractors.
• It's Recognition Wednesday! Be sure to take a moment to recognize someone who has gone above & beyond or just made your day a little better!
• Who's into jam bands? Assembly of Dust was a great show...what other jam bands in the Northeast could you suggest? Disco Biscuits, Strangefolk, String Cheese Incident...
• Our Blood Donor Room will be open 12 noon - 7:30 PM on Wednesday, March 30. Stop by and save a life!
• Spend 5 minutes with Dr. Sajani Shah, Minimally Invasive Bariatric & General Surgeon
• Join us for our Celiac Health Fair on March 31st 4-7PM at 85 Lincoln St, Framingham!
• We're having a fundraiser at California Pizza Kitchen. Bring in this flyer on April 13th, present it to your server when ordering, and 20% of your check will be donated to the Library.
• We have declared April 1st Team Spirit Day in honor of the new baseball season Visit the Library wearing your favorite team's apparel. We'll be showing baseball movies all day and running Ken Burns' BASEBALL in the lobby all day.
• April is going to be a busy month at the library. National Library Week will have many extra programs. There's National Bookmobile Day, and it's also National Poetry Month. You can keep up to date on all the goings-on at And on April 1 we cel
• Wednesday March 30 the Natick Reads book discussion will be Tim O'Brien's If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home. O'Brien served 2 years with the Army in Vietnam and published this searing, passionate account in 1973. It sta
• Chief James Hicks shortly after being sworn in, in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall of the Library.
• This is an excellent article on the origins of the present-day historical novel genre. And its fun to read. The Facebook page it's from has lots more for the romance fan. The Wolf and the Dove, The Flame and the Flower...that's what started it
• Some of the cookbooks coming out in the next few months.
• Join us at our 2011 Walk from Obesity! MetroWest Medical Center's Leonard Morse Hospital Campus 67 Union Street, Natick On-site Registration Will Open At: 9:00 AM Walk Will Begin At: 10:00 AM and finish by noon. Click the link to learn more!
• Rethink, Reuse, Remake Contest! Help MWMC celebrate Earth Day 2011! Be creative and submit your entries before time runs out!
• Saturday March 26 at 2 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall there will be a demonstration of traditional Vietnamese dance (and audience participation) with choreographer Chi Potter, and a fashion show of Vietnamese dress.
• Next Tuesday March 29 is Election Day. A sample ballot can be found at as well as polling locations, Town Meeting members and the three Charter amendment questions on the ballot.
• Tomorrow, Friday March 25, is the Foundation Center webinar on Finding Foundation Support for Education, 2:45 PM in the Community Meeting Room. If you are looking for financial help in continuing your education, this program is for you. See for complete
• For the latest "dish" on all things cookbook-related...and a free cookbook download from NYC's Green Cart Initiative.
• Our Blood Donor Room will be open today (3/22/11) from 8:30am-4:30pm. Come by and save a life!
• If you are a student looking for financial help to further your education, don't miss the Foundation Center webinar, Finding Foundation Support for Education on Friday March 25 at 2:45 PM. See for more information.
• It's not too late to get your tickets to the Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball to benefit the Bacon Free Library. See for all the info. Auction items include a framed Band of Joy poster signed by Robert Plant, milk & cookies with Santa, Patriots &
• Our Blood Donor Room will be open tomorrow (3/22/11) from 8:30am-4:30pm. Come by and save a life!
• Welcoming our new physician Dr. Tara Nolan to the MetroWest Medical Center Community!
• The Morrison team offering great bites at the Taste of MetroWest!
• Tuesday's Natick Reads book discussion will be Cynthia Kadohata's A Million Shades of Gray, at 6 PM at the Bacon Free Library. A story of survival in war-ravaged Vietnam, it shows how the truth can have as many shades of gray as the elephants o
• Vietnam : Struggle and Success Stories in a Time of Peace by Barry Pell, photojournalist and world traveler, on Tuesday March 22 at 7:30 pm in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall will focus on the people and landscape and is based on Pell's extensive travel i
• On this day in 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published and became an instant best-seller, Read about the Stowe House in South Natick,
• At 7:21 PM today the sun crosses the celestial equator heading North and hello, gorgeous!
• Stephanie tastes what our Food & Nutrition Department brought to the event. It was one of the delicious dishes talked about all night!
• MetroWest Medical Center's booth at the Taste of MetroWest!
• Bonnie Biocchi, President of the MetroWest Chamber of Commerce, and two representatives from our Food and Nutrition Department, Ted Flood and Emily Lotterhand congratulates the team from Boloco for winning MetroWest's Health for Life award!
• Congratulations to the team at Boloco for winning the Health for Life award!
• Our own Dr. Michael Gottlieb talks about Health for Life at the 1st Annual Taste of MetroWest!
• April 2 from 9 am to 1 pm at the Natick High School parking lot is "Clean That Junk Out of Your Attic Recycling Day" For more info, see
• And a happy St. Patrick's Day!
• Happy Evacuation Day, everyone.
• We've added more copies of both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and they are being checked out. Even though written in the 19th century, they still speak to young women today.
• We've added more copies of both books and they are doing a good circulation. Even though they were written in the 19th century, they still speak to young women today.
• MetroWest Medical Center's FREE CardioVacsular Lecture Series continues tomorrow night (3/17) with Dr. George Kinzfogl's "Everything You Wanted To Know About Heart Disease But Were Afraid To Ask."
• You can still purchase tickets to the Bacon Free Library Mardi Gras Fundraiser Ball on the library website at Some of the items being auctioned include a June weekend on the Cape overlooking the National Seashore, a catered French dinner for 8, or how
• Wednesday March 16 the Natick Reads book discussion will be The Book of Salt by Monique Truong, at 11 AM in Room 1A. The book is about Gertrude Stein's cook who must decide whether to travel with his employer or return to his native Vietnam.
• The Wednesday Book Discussion Group will have their next meeting April 13 at 11AM in Room 1A and will feature The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Copies of the book are available at the Circulation Desk. For more info contact Karen Perkins
• The Framingham History Center has extensive programming commemorating the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. Learn more at
• A salute out to everyone who took Latin at NHS with Miss Harrington. "Beware the Ides...and all that"
• More technology that will have an effect on libraries. "As online streaming booms, DVDs hear a death knell."
• This looks to be one of the next big issues that libraries will have to grapple with.
• Do you have a certified Pet Therapy Dog or know someone who does? We are always looking for dogs to be part of the best Pet Therapy Program in the area! For more information please call Sherri Hebert, Coordinator of our Pet Therapy Program at 508-650-70
• Our friends at Tufts Medical Center are researching social media in health care. Please take our survey for a chance to win $150! Survey ends soon! Help us spread the word to get as many people to take the survey as possible.
• Today is 3:14 Happy Pi Day everyone
• Tomorrow is the second Monday of free drop-in help with cover letters and resumes from 10:30 am to 1 pm in the Prunaret Room on the second floor. Registration is not required and people will be helped on a first-come, first-served basis.
• The next Natick Reads book discussion will be Tuesday March 15 at 7 PM at the Bacon Free Library. The book is My Detachment by Tracy Kidder, in which the author finds war to be a MASH-like mix of the absurd and the catastrophic, the banal and the profoun
• Library director Linda Stetson (in the red apron) helps serve up Vietnamese cuisine from Saigon Restaurant in Millis at the Natick Reads kickoff event on Saturday.
• Just by texting, you can donate to the American Red Cross or the Salvation Army, plus other ways to contribute.
• Glossy coffee table books have a delicious rich smell that varies from publisher to publisher. On the other hand, graphic novels with all the heavy ink smell really bad.
• Tonight's the night to change the clocks. Lose an hour, but we get to kick winter outta here!
• You can hate the online world or love it, but you can't deny that in times of strife, unrest, danger, or tragedy it proves to be a useful tool that surpasses most.
• MWMC Employees: Click on this photo or go to MWMC Point to read about how you can enter our Earth Day 2011 contest. Submissions due by April 15th!
• Rethink, Reuse, Remake Contest! Help MWMC celebrate Earth Day 2011!
• Saturday March 12 from Noon to 1 PM join us in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall for a tasting of traditional Vietnamese cuisine prepared by Saigon Restaurant in Millis. We'll explore the flavors of lemongrass, ginger and fish oil.
• The March selection of new large print books purchased with money from the Annual Fund is now on the shelves ready to be checked out. Thank you donors !!
• The NBCC has announced the winners for publishing in 2010.
• Online Newsstand is our newest service for Natick residents with their library card. A collaborative effort by several libraries, it links feature articles from 16 major magazines. Rolling Stone, Kiplinger's, Macworld, PC World, The Economist are so
• Well, it's been a while since we posted a resource for romance readers, so here is Wendy, mild mannered librarian and romance novel junkie by day...
• The complete program of Natick Reads Explores Vietnam is available online at and information on The Moving Wall, the half-sized replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial that will be in Natick June 9-12.
• The "Ordinary" People of Early Boston were more diverse and interesting than the staid historical image of the city. Sunday March 13 at 2 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall, the Natick Historical Society will present a program by Joanne Lloyd, Nat
• Get ready for Poetry Slam For All on Wednesday April 13 at 7 PM at The Center For Arts in Natick, 14 Summer St. Hosted by Geof Hewitt, Slam Master, this is for all ages. Poets register on-site with 2 original poems under 3 minutes long. Prizes will be a
• Hope to see you at the 1st Annual Taste of MetroWest! There will be restaurants and other food vendors from all over the MetroWest community offering delicious bites to everyone in attendance! It is not to be missed!
• The next job hunting workshop will be Monday March 14 from 10:30 AM to 1 PM in the Prunaret Room on the second floor. This is drop-in (no registration required) help with cover letters and resumes on a first-come-first-served basis. For more information,
• Another of the databases that we have added is Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Business Database Total Massachusetts. Build targeted lists of leads with over 30 different selectors from unlimited access to up-to-date public and private company
• "Long before texting..."The current historical display on the Lower Level is the postcard album of the teenage Josephine Buckley (later Mrs. Arthur Fair) with a history of the postcard. Another glass case on the lower level has an extension of
• Museum of Bad Art : Masterworks. Some art is so bad it can't be ignored and Louise Reilly Sacco will talk about this at the April 6 Creative Connections at 3 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall. She is the founder and director of the MOBA, located in De
• There's lots more in this article than just homage to Bookmobiles.
• The first Natick Reads book discussion, Vietnamese folktales, is for preschoolers and will be Wednesday March 8 and Friday, March 11 at 10 AM at the Bacon Free Library in South Natick. No registration is required. Folktales depict the rich history, triba
• Natick Patch ( did a really nice article about Freegal, our new music download service.
• Tomorrow is Early Release Games Day from noon to 2 PM in the Morse Room. This is a drop-in program for grades 5 to 12, no registration is required, and refreshments will be provided. It is sponsored by Boloco of Natick and the Friends of the Morse Insti
• The Iditarod has begun in Alaska. It was a Children's Department librarian (they know these things) who told me all about Balto, the lead sled dog who saved Nome in 1925 from a diphtheria elpidemic by delivering medicine on a 53 mile run through a r
• On this day in 1770 Crispus Attucks, a black man from the Natick/Framingham area, and four others were killed at the Boston Massacre. You can read more about him, and about Paul Revere's famous (and innaccurate) gravure of the event at
• Unshelved is the Librarian's comic strip. This episode is called Viva la Book :
• The Betsy Lehman Center is pleased to announce the 2010 recipient of the Betsy Lehman Patient Safety Recognition award and congratulates the dedicated team and leadership from MetroWest Medical Center/Vanguard Health Systems for their impressive work and
• Stop by the MetroWest Medical Center table at the 1st Annual Taste of MetroWest!
• You may have noticed that we have fewer signs in the library these days. We are trying to avoid a lot of “Please don’t” or “No…..” statements around us. Instead, we are following the policy of getting to “yes&
• The next Stephen King novel is a history twister, called 11/22/63 & due out in November, that reimagines a world where John F. Kennedy has not been assassinated. An unassuming 35-year-old high school teacher named Jake Epping must travel back in tim
• The Natick Observer editorials of March 1861 give the impression that everyone was holding their breath, hoping Lincoln's inauguration would defuse radical Southerners. His inaugural speech, reported on 10 days after, was described as firm but not b
• How do YOU organize YOUR bookcases ?
• The Library is purchasing computer games and console games and we are asking for suggestions for what to buy. We'd like to know your favorite computer games and console games for Wii, Nintendo, Playstation 2 & 3 and XBox. You can reply here, or
• Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss.
• Happy March 1 everyone! Today is the meterological first day of Spring. We made it and it's all uphill from here. Daylight savings begins March 13 and then sunset will be around 7 PM and the vernal equinox is on the 20th.
• The Library has subscribed to several new databases, one of which is Consumer Reports online, with the "Cars Best Deals Plus" section that has price and test reports, and the build and buy car-buying service. The site also lets you read the lat
• Enjoy a March concert with None of the Above, the eclectic A Capella, on Sunday March 6 at 3 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall. None of the Above is a group of eight gifted voices from a myriad of musical backgrounds who sing polyphony, modern harmony, fol
• March is Natick Reads month. This year's theme is Natick Reads Explores Vietnam in recognition of the arrival of the Moving Wall in Natick on June 9. Complete information is at Natick Reads is a collaboration of the Morse Institute and the Bacon
• Say goodbye to Winter and hello to Spring with Creative Connections Wednesday March 2 at 3 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall."Favorite Poets and Writers" will be presented by the members of the Natick Writers Guild. Come early and socialize with
• An updated list of books that will make a different type of present for a baby shower.
• Books I've liked make me want to see the movie. Movies I like make me want to read the book they're based on. Are you going to watch the Academy Awards? If nothing else, all the glitz and glam and bling make them interesting.
• You don't want to miss out! Buy your tickets now!
• Happy Birthday, George Harrison.
• Another sign of Spring : baby goats born at the Community Farm. These two photos were taken by Maureen Sullivan.
• Signs of Spring : maple sugaring has begun at the Community Farm.
• The Daily Beast says this is one of the best books currently out on the Civil War. You can reserve your copy at It would also make a great gift for a history buff.
• Here's a little PR ditty about the Library made with Google Search Stories. You can easily make one too, telling any story you want using Google searches.
• A Project Gutenberg for music scores.
• Did you know...you can search the Minuteman Network catalog right from Facebook? Just click on the "Catalog" tab above.
• UK libraries are in dire straits now. Creative use of Photoshop converted World War I posters to have a different message. The link to the whole collection: I hope we never have to use them here in the US.
• And now five new Daphne du Maurier stories have been discovered too. You can read about it here I love the quote from Raymond Chandler that Hammett "gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse.&q
• Tomorrow (2/24) Dr. William Castelli will talk about "Good Fat / Bad Fat" at our Free Cardiovascular Lecture Series at 115 Lincoln St, Framingham from 6-8pm. CAll 1-800-400-DOCS to sign up!
• The Library is providing free drop-in help for creating cover letters and resumes on the four Monday mornings in March from 10:30am - 1:00pm in the Prunaret Room on the second floor. Registration is not required and every effort will be made to help ever
• Maureen Sullivan, who coordinates the Library's Natick Veterans Oral History Project will be speaking about it Thursday February 24 at 1 PM at the Sherborn Council on Aging's Drop-In Program. She'll be doing the program again on March 11 a
• The Natick Historical Society has added new content to its Natick history section. At the bottom of the page linked here is the Horace H. Potter slideshow of Natick at the turn of the last century. It is well worth watching. There is also a newly done br
• It's school vacation week and tomorrow is Hawaiian Shirt Day. We are also showing the movie Despicable Me in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall at 2 PM tomorrow. And on the 26th at 10:30 am in the Children's Library is Saturday Sit-With-Me Story, a drop
• The JFK Library has added all kinds of wonderful online material in the past few months. There is a digital archive of the Presidential papers and new this week, the interactive Presidential Desk in the Oval Office where you can explore video, audio and
• You can reserve your copy of Dead Reckoning here:
• Morse Institute Library declares that Wednesday, February 23 is Hawaiian Shirt Day. If you were a Hawaiian Shirt (or something summer-y), or a flower in your hair, or a lei around your neck, you can say aloha to your overdue fines.
• On this day in 1781 Natick was formally incorporated as a town. For more information you can read William Bigelow's History of the Town of Natick, written in 1830, here:
• While referring to the situation in Great Britain, this librarian's pithy comments hold true for the United States. I imagine "their ilk" can be said with a curled upper lip and a raised eyebrow.
• On this day in 1861 Mary Boykin Chesnut started a diary that came to be a primary work as an insider's view of the end of the Southern planter aristocracy. A Diary from Dixie described the Civil War as experienced by all classes, is considered a lit
• Scot Turow for America's libraries. This has been circulating around the library world for a while, but it bears reading more than once.
• Our FREE cardiovascular lecture series begins February 24 at Framingham Union Hospital, 115 Lincoln St, from 6-8p. Call 1-800-400-DOCS.
• The Natick Friends of the Fourth needs volunteers! Top of the list is a coordinator for the annual Family Night and someone willing to take over as Chair in 2012. Contact Chairman Bruce Weisberg at 508-599-5565 or bruce.weisberg@middlesexbank.com You c
• In honor of President's Day, the Library will be closed Sunday February 20 and Monday February 21.
• We have declared that Wednesday February 23 is Hawaiian Shirt Day. There will be surprises and fun for everyone and if you wear a Hawaiian shirt (or something summer-y), or a flower in your hair or a lei around your neck you can say aloha to your fines!
• A Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball benefiting the Bacon Free Library will be held March 26 at the Wellesley College Ballroom at 7 PM. Tickets are $50 and are available at Bacon. Live music, Cajun food, silent auctions, raffles, a cash bar and fun, fun, fun! Ma
• Learn English speaking, listening, reading and writing in small classes at the Library that are free with no registration required. Beginner and Intermediate Group on Thursdays 6:30-8 PM or Saturdays 11:30 AM-1 PM ; Intermediate Group on Fridays 10:30 AM
• Shoot a 30-second or less video of yourself and others, and tell us what your favorite partnership is!
• On this day in 1812 Henry Wilson, the "Natick Cobbler," was born. A self-educated and hard-working shoemaker who rose to factory-owner, he was an ardent abolitionist. In Natick, he promoted self-improvement groups and the then-fledgling aboliti
• This has to be the coolest library evah! Kansas City Public Library, Missouri.
• The Vacation Week Movie Special is Wednesday, February 23 from 2 to 3:40 pm in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall. Despicable Me (PG) is an animated feature about a criminal mastermind who uses 3 orphan girls as pawns in his grand scheme and finds himself changed
• You can view the New York Public Library's collection of Valentine Post Cards here:
• Buy your tickets now! The Taste of MetroWest is sure to be a great night out, we hope to see you there!
• This should be a link to a free booklet of Valentine's Day recipes from America's Test Kitchen. Can you tell that we really like ATK?
• Happy Valentine's Day to everybody!
• Do you read Steampunk?
• There is exciting news for families in the MetroWest region. MetroWest Medical Center and Tufts Medical Center have formed a partnership to bring more advance medical services right to you.
• The Perfect Partnership!
• Wellness Center, Route 9, Framingham
• Leonard Morse Hospital, Natick
• Share the Love food drive to benefit A Place To Turn starts Monday! Bring in non perishable items any time next week to help those in need!
• This is the library that the Leadership Team visited last fall. We were looking at their "extreme customer service" approach as a model for the Morse Institute to follow.
• AAAhhhhh ! A weekend is coming with no snow shoveling, no ice chopping and no roof clearing. What a perfect time to make a Valentine for your sweetie and think about the warmer days just ahead. And if you want to read up about this "red-letter"
• The Department of Public Health recently named MetroWest Medical the 2010 recipient of the Betsy Lehman Patient Safety Recognition Award, named after a Boston Globe reporter who died of a chemotherapy overdose.
• Just added: AMBROSIA on April 28 at 8pm...tickets on sale this week.
• Talented Partnership. Award-Winning Results. www.theperfectpartnership.org
• MetroWest Medical Center & Tufts Medical Center have formed a partnership to bring more advance medical services to you.
• Join us for our Winterfest Blood Drive, 85 Lincoln St, Framingham, MacPherson Hall. 12:00pm-7:30pm. Food, drinks, raffle items & giveaways!
• The Preschool Film Fest will show three short films in a 30 minute program on Wednesday February 9 in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall. The program is free and no registration is required. Children must be accompanied by an adult. The features are: Charlie Need
• The Library today launched Freegal, a free and legal music download service for Natick residents, with thousands of songs from Sony Music Entertainment. Three downloads per person, per week, in MP3 format, and compatable with iPod, iPad & iTunes that
• A Foundation Center webinar about grantseeking basics for individuals in the arts will be held in the Community Room on Friday February 11 from 2:45 pm - 4:00 pm. If you are looking for funding to complete a project, mount an exhibit, conduct research or
• Expert Partnership. Exceptional Results.
• The Perfect Partnership Radio ad featured on WBZ.
• Wednesday February 9 is Early Release Games Day for kids in grades 5 - 12, from noon to 2 PM in the Morse Room. Sponsored by Boloco of Natick and the Friends of the Morse Institute, there will be board games, DDR, & Guitar Hero. No registration requi
• Strong Partnership. Winning Results.
• Try this out! Download a free QR (quick reader) application on your smart phone, and then use that application to take a picture of the tag. You will be taken directly to a video.
• What's your favorite partnership? Click here to read about ours!
• Some of the major works on the Civil War that are being published this year.
• Read all about this performer who is a librarian ! With the MLS and everything at
• One of the first signs of Spring for librarians is Publishers Weekly Spring Announcement issue. Here editors have picked the top 10 in nineteen categories. Or you can link to a database for the full list of publishers' announcements.
• Are you cooking for a Super Bowl party? Cooks Illustrated Magazine has provided a free booklet of recipes. Get it at
• Get twice as many books in half the time! Avoid waiting in line! Usage of the library's self checkout stations is up to 15%. It lets US do more good things for YOU, like book displays, planning programs, and ordering more books, DVDs, and audiobooks
• It's National "Wear Red" Day in support of the fight against heart disease in women. Are you wearing red? "Like" this status if you are or if you support the cause!
• Do you have a creative kid? Register now for a summer vacation arts workshop at TCAN, classes are filling up fast!
• Here is a sneak peek of "the perfect partnership"
• What is your favorite partnership? Desi and Lucille? FDR and Churchill? MetroWest Medical Center and Tufts Medical Center? Stay tuned....
• New in the Reference Department : Text a librarian at 508-318-8165 Also: IM natickref on Yahoo, Google Talk, AIM or Windows Live Call (508) 647-6521. Or visit Reference on the Second Floor !
• "Libraries are invisible to people in power." was one of the more interesting comments. But now our secret is out that we have book cart drills (and contests for best decorated book carts)
• The Library has the best sidewalks and entryway in town, thanks to Dave Rines and the DPW crew.
• Happy Chinese New Year. It is the Year of the Rabbit and people born in the Year of the Chinese New Year Rabbit are articulate, talented, and ambitious.
• Thank you to the employees, doctors & volunteers who have braved several snow storms this winter to provide patients with excellent care!
• Heart-Healthy Valentine's Day Tips via @addthis
• Forget about Punxatawney Phil. He's an amateur compared to Doug the Quahog, predicting summer weather. There will be no complaints about 90 degree days. This too shall pass...down the sewer drain...soon.
• All town offices are closed Tuesday evening through Wednesday. The town website linked here has more information. Tax bills can be paid Thursday Feb. 3 with no penalty.
• The Library will close at 4 PM today, February 1, and will be closed all day Wednesday February 2.
• WOW ! 60 years of service !
• Congratulations to the MetroWest Physicians named on the 2010-2011 "Best Doctors in America" list!
• The evening book group previously scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday February 2 is cancelled and will be held on the regularly scheduled February date, February 23, and will be on The Book Thief. The March 23 meeting will be The Rain Before it Falls by Jo
• Kick off American Heart Month by participating in National Wear Red Day on Friday, February 4th!
• Due to the snow storm, our Blood Donor Room will be closing at 2:00pm today & will be closed all day tomorrow, Wed., February 2. Stay warm!
• The Selectmen Candidate Debate scheduled for Wednesday February 2 has been postponed to Monday March 7, at 7PM.
• The Creative Connections program for Wednesday February 2 has been cancelled. The Proper Patient will be rescheduled for the fall.
• Wrapping up second edition of Arts in the Metro, this one in HD...looks great!
• Wednesday's Bookmobile stop at the Natick Army Labs has been cancelled. The meeting of the Friends of the Library scheduled for February 2 has been rescheduled to February 9 at 7 PM in Study Room 1A
• Notice that catalogers are mentioned first?
• The next meeting of the Wednesday Morning Book Group is February 16 at 11 AM in Study Room 1A. This month's discussion is People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks, an evocative journey backward in time as a modern-day conservator researches the histor
• Creative Connections presents The Proper Patient of 1900, Wednesday February 2 at 2:30 in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall with Myrtle Mills, a proper Victorian lady who will offer a light and humorous look at medicine at the turn of the last century.
• Thanks, Natick Bulletin, for the front-page story today on what taxpayers get for their dollar at the Morse Institute Library.
• The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Moving Wall will be in Natick June 9-12, 2011 at the Natick High School Soccer Field on West St.
• An important report has been released documenting how consumers use online information and how the current economy affects their use and perception of the library.
• Unless it is medically necessary for you or your baby, guidelines developed by doctors & researchers say it’s best to wait until the 39th week of completed pregnancy to deliver. The Leapfrog Group asked hospitals to voluntarily report their rat
• MetroWest Medical Center was honored with two "Merit" awards from the Eighth Annual Service Industry Advertising Awards for our Flash Mob and our ER Texting Radio Ad.
• 5 Mistakes to avoid in the next snowstorm
• The Library will open at 1:00 pm today, Thursday, January 27 due to the overnight snowfall.
• Be careful out there!
• Due to the weather, this evening's book group is cancelled. It has been rescheduled to Wednesday February 2 at 7 PM. For more information, contact Jen McGillis at (508) 647-6520 or email jmcgillis@minlib.net
• 1st Annual Taste of MetroWest! MetroWest Medical Center is the event sponsor and we'd love to see you there!
• Check out these shots of The Persuasions taken last Saturday by our friend Scott Bump...thank you Scott!
• Attn: Night Shift employees & early birds - Mon, Feb 7 Blood Donor Rm will open at 7a. Call to reserve time 508-383-1230, walk-ins welcome!
• Due to the impending snow the Community Blood Donor Room will be closed tomorrow morning (1/27), but will open in the afternoon from 12-4pm.
• The Friends booksale this past weekend attracted lots of lookers and buyers.
• Would you ever want to do this?
• From the January 2011 edition of Arts in the Metro, a collaboration of The Center for Arts in Natick and Natick Pegasus community access television.
• Stock up on books and music for those long winter nights at the Friends of the Library Book Sale. Saturday 9:30 am to 4:30 pm and Sunday noon to 3 pm.
• Thank you to everyone who works so hard on these snowy days to make it safe traveling for the rest of us! Drive safe out there!
• Snow is forecast to end at noon, so we are ON for tonight's concert featuring Beatlejuice. All Beatles, all night including the entire Hard Day's Night album performed in sequence. Yeah!
• The Morse Institute Library will have a delayed opening today due to the snowstorm. The library will open at 1:00 pm. However, please stay tuned for updates.
• Its the time of year to study seed catalogs and plan and dream about next summer's garden. To that end, the Natick Garden Club has generously given us a donation to augment our gardening collection with some of the newest titles to provide both insp
• Today is the 50th anniversary of JFK's inaugural address.
• It's "Get To Know Your Customers Day" so we are asking our fans: What is your favorite partnership (or dynamic duo)? People, places, things - famous or not. PB & J, Ying/Yang, Batman & Robin - any pair will do! :)
• From the January 2011 edition of Arts in the Metro, a collaboration of The Center for Arts in Natick and Natick Pegasus community access television.
• A favorite genre here. Have to make sure we have all the titles. This announcement is always made on the anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's birth.
• Happy National Popcorn Day!
• New large print books purchased with gifts to the Library's Annual Fund are currently on display near the Circulation Desk. We have subscribed to three new standing order programs for popular large print titles that will add 24 new titles a month to
• What's your favorite partnership?
• Arts in the Metro - Jan 2011 - Alison Fraser segment
• Assembly of Dust at TCAN on March 24...tickets on sale this Saturday for discounted pre-sale seven days only, $20 all seats. $26/$22 members on Jan 29.
• How old is your house? Learn how to research its history Sunday January 23 at 2 PM at the Eliot Church Hall on Route 16 in South Natick with Marian Pierre-Louis, house historian and writer. This program is presented by the Natick Historical Society and M
• These days you have to take your chuckles wherever you can find them. So in that spirit, and not intended as advertising, here are examples of one of the most popular hobbies we support with lots of books. And at the end, there's a link to some witt
• The library will be closing at 4 pm today due to icy conditions predicted for this evening. Stay dry, and drive safely if you have to go out!
• The Friends of the Morse Institute Book and Music Sale is this coming weekend. Hours are Saturday January 22 9:30am - 4:30pm and Sunday January 23 noon - 3pm.
• Training for volunteers to teach adults English (ESOL) will be held at the Wellesley Library Mondays 9:30am - 12:30pm on February 7, 14, 28 & March 7, 14 and 21. For further information or to register, call (508) 532-5574 or email FPLMail4@minlib.net
• Thank you to all MetroWest Medical Center physicians, employees and volunteers who came in during the snow storm to take excellent care of our patients!
• Be sure to drive safely today!
• Wednesday the Minuteman Catalog is going to have a new look with lots of neat features like faceting and tagging and links to magazine articles in search results. The "classic catalog" will still be available and if you want to try it out, go t
• The MWRTA will be providing free shuttle service to the temporary Senior Center at 90 Oak St. Pickups and returns will be twice a day from Sherwood Village, Cedar Gardens, Coolidge Gardens and the Natick Common Bus stop. Call (508) 647-6540 for times.
• Wednesday January 19 at 7 PM author-chef Joanne Chang, owner of Flour Bakery + Cafe will be at the Bacon Free Library in South Natick talking about and signing copies of her book, Flour : Spectacular Recipes from Boston's Flour Bakery + Cafe.
• MetroWest Medical Center signs on as the Event Sponsor of the "Taste of MetroWest"!
• Today is National Hat Day !
• On January 15, 1919 the Boston Molasses Flood occurred when a large storage tank in the North End exploded. These pictures are from the Boston Public Library archives.
• The Library will be closed Sunday and Monday, January 16 and 17 in observation of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
• A long and unbroken line through three centuries of Natick history.
• Taken by Maureen Sullivan, here is a photo of the Library at the height of Wednesday's blizzard.
• Metrowest Daily News featured TCAN is a few articles today, including this piece on Arts in the Metro. Check it out online...
• On days that the Library is closed, no fines are charged.
• The second book in Rick Riordan's Kane Chronicles will be published in May. The first in the series, The Red Pyramid, was (and still is) a huge hit.
• Thank you Natick Pegasus. Another hidden gem in Natick revealed.
• On this day in history, Horatio Alger Jr. was born. His father was minister in South Natick for a time. At the end of his life, Alger came to live with his sister who remained in Natick. He is buried in the Glenwood Cemetery in South Natick.
• A reminder that the Library will open at 1 PM today, Thursday, January 13, to give the DPW a chance to finish the clean-up.
• Library opening at 1 pm Thursday, January 13. The library opening will be delayed because of the clean-up needed in the aftermath of the snow storm. There will be no Games Day.
• Loudon Wainwright III returns to TCAN this Saturday night at 8pm...great seats just released.
• MetroWest Medical Center would like to thank all employees, volunteers and physicians who came in to take great care of our patients during the storm!
• Kick back and enjoy. There's always a (strong) element of truth in comedy. Thunder snow: check. Birds falling from the sky: check.
• The Morse Institute Library is closed today, Wednesday January 12.
• At this time, the library will have a delayed opening at 1:00 p.m., with staff reporting at 12:30. However, due to the unknown nature of this storm, stay tuned for further updates. As always, please call the library’s main number -- 508-647-6520
• What is your favorite thing to do on a snow day?
• Our blood donor center will be closed on Wednesday, January 12, 2011.
• I appears that bad weather will be here Wednesday, so please call the Library at (508) 647-6520 for an updated phone message regarding our opening before venturing outside.
• Ever wondered why the Codfish is sacred to Massachusetts?
• Cookbooks are so incredibly (over the) top-of-the-charts popular, here's even more to whet your appetite. Nothin says lovin like something from the oven.
• And the winner is...
• Due to the impending bad weather forecast for Wednesday, January 12th, the Creative Connections Winter Potluck Luncheon scheduled for noon will be canceled.
• The new Natick online news feed Natick Patch did a very nice article on Arts in the Metro...thanks to Jeanne and the good people at the Patch!
• Let's get into the Wayback Machine and visit Natick in 1889.
• Happy birthday to the King !
• I like reason #7.
• MTV's Hollywood Crush on some hot YA titles due out this year. Now we need to find a list like this for boys.
• Kaplan, publisher of test prep and education books, is offering free downloads of 130 of its ebooks, through January 10.
• This year over 115 boxes of non-perishable items were sent to the Natick Food Pantry from the Food for Fines program, the huge box for winter coats was emptied twice, and donations to the giving tree were up 25% over last year. Thank you all to our most
• The next Friends booksale is January 22 & 23 and volunteers are needed to set up on Thursday January 20 from 3 - 7 PM ; work a few hours during the sale and help pack up at the end of the sale Sunday January 23 from 3 - 5 PM. If you can help, please
• Creative Connections' Winter Potluck is Wednesday January 12 at Noon in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall. Warm up with good food and old friends on a cold winter day! Bring a dish or dessert, meet new friends and sample new dishes. There's always plen
• Next Thursday, January 13, is Games Day, a drop-in program for grades 5-12, from Noon to 2 PM. No registration is required. Traditional board games, cards, DDR, Guitar Hero, chess and more! Sponsored by the Friends of the Morse Institute Library and Bolo
• January is National Blood Donor Month. Our blood donor center is currently in need of all blood types. Stop by today and save a life!
• The waiting list to get an ESOL or Literacy tutor is now open Jan 3 - Jan 7 at the Framingham Public Library, 49 Lexington St., Framingham. Hours are 9AM - 6 PM Monday through Thursday and 9AM - 5 PM Friday. Or, call the Natick library at (508) 647-6400
• January is National Blood Donor Month. Receive a $5.00 Dunkin’ Donuts gift card when you donate a pint of blood! MetroWest Medical Center, 115 Lincoln Street, Framingham. For more donor room hours or more information, please call 508-383-1230.
• Natick was no stranger to heated rhetoric, being a center of anti-slavery, pro-union activity. On January 5, 1861 The Natick Observer newspaper wrote: "A President has been chosen and she doesn't like it and that is all. Fighting is our only re
• Our New Year's Baby!
• Cremer's Nightshade is just one of our hot new YA titles.
• And what else can you look forward to reading in 2011?
• If you are looking for another Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, try Three Seconds, by a former journalist and ex-con duo. A suitable fix for the craving for more Nordic noir.
• Arts in the Metro ran all weekend on Natick Pegasus...what's next, a podcast? Wish we knew someone who could help us figure that out! DON'T FORGET our premiere party this Wednesday night at TCAN at 7pm!
• The Newbery and Caldecott Awards will be announced in another week. Here are the major contenders.
• You're going to hear the word sesquicentennial uttered a lot in the coming months because 2011 begins the 150th anniversary of the commencement of the Civil War. To begin, we will recommend a book that Kirkus Reviews says is useful to Civil War buff
• Happy New Year everyone! May 2011 be filled with happiness, health and lots and lots of great reads!
• This is an excellent blog post with instructions for using OverDrive with your brand-new Nook eReader that you got for Christmas.
• The next meeting of the Wednesday morning book group will be January 19 at 11 AM. This month's book is The Soloist by Steve Lopez, an emotionally charged story of raw talent and renewed hope. Copies of the book are available at the Circulation Desk.
• The Library will be closed Friday December 31, 2010 through Sunday January 2, 2011 in observance of the New Year's Holiday.
• Are you tired of "Top 10" lists yet? Seems like they start earlier and earlier each year. What if something really, truly monumental happens the last day of December? Something that alters the course of history, turns the economy around on a di
• There are more public libraries in the U.S. than there are McDonald's.
• How Libraries Stack Up : 2010. Every day, our public libraries deliver millions of dollars in resources and support that meet the critical needs of our communities. See this in graphic format.
• The Morse Institute Library will be CLOSED tomorrow, Monday December 27, due to the blizzard. Stay home & snuggle up by the fire with a good book.
• Did you get a Kindle for Christmas?
• Merry Christmas to all of our wonderful members, patrons, artists, musicians and friends, and thank you for being part of the TCAN family!
• Again this year NORAD is following Santa's trip tonight. They even have a Facebook page or you can use GoogleEarth to get up-to-date info on your mobile phone.
• The exhibit of paintings by Irwin Thompson in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall ends today.
• Freegal is coming to the library February 1st. We'll have more information about it in January.
• The Library will be closed Friday December 24 through Sunday December 26. Merry Christmas everyone! If you are interested in Christmas and Holidays of Light traditions around the world, look here:
• 18th and 19th Century Medicine and Surgery
• The "Ordinary" People of Early Boston
• Researching the History of Your House
• There's a video circulating around with a little kid throwing a tantrum because he got BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS !!??!! So he's getting coal this year, I hope. Books I received have made a big impression, some might say begun my whole life of warped
• Save a life! Please visit the donor room at MWMC (115 Lincoln St, Framingham) and donate a pint of blood. Hours: Monday, Thursday & Friday 8:30am – 4:30pm, Tuesday & Wednesday 8:30am – 7:30pm.
• Books about ice and cold? In December? Uh-uh. Save this list for July when it's 90 degrees in the shade. Right now I want books where people are sweating and drinking iced tea on the porch and with titles like The Long Hot Summer.
• At 1:32 AM Tuesday a rare winter solstice lunar eclipse will make this darkest day of the year even darker. The good news is that beginning Wednesday, the days start to get longer.
• Holiday closings at the Library: Christmas weekend closed Friday December 24 through Sunday December 26 New Year's weekend closed Friday December 31 through Sunday January 2
• This Wednesday, December 22, the Preschool Film Fest will show a 30 minute program in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall at 10:30 AM. Features include Giggle, Giggle Quack; Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel; and Musical Max. No registration is required.
• On this day in 1843 Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol was first published and has never been out of print. You can read it online here:
• TCAN members make it possible for us to keep presenting great arts programs. We want your ideas for a fresh new tag line to attract new members. We've been using "Play your part". What's your suggestion?
• Did you know that THIS IS THE BUSIEST SHOPPING DAY OF THE YEAR ??? (please excuse the shouting) But why are you fighting the traffic on Route 9? The Friends of the Library have many unique items for sale: the Old Town Calenar, book bags, note cards, book
• A one-page cheat sheet of library-compatible ebook devices for use with OverDrive
• Storms and Library closings : call the library (508) 647-6520 for a recorded message regarding closings or delayed openings. If the weather changes during the day, the messages will be updated. If the Natick public schools are closed due to weather, the
• New romances due out in the spring.
• On the evening of December 16, 1773 more than 5000 colonists met at the Old South Meeting House to decide the fate of three shiploads of tea docked in Boston Harbor. The resulting act of civil disobedience came to be an iconic event in American history k
• OverDrive ebooks are now available for iPhone and Android devices. Check out the updated list.
• Big thanks to the Foundation for Metrowest for their generous grant to TCAN this week that will help us launch a movie series in 2011, featuring independent films, vintage movies and family films. Thanks to the Foundation for all the nonprofit organizati
• Always one of the best year-end compilations, Kirkus Reviews has released its best of 2010 books. Not just a list of fiction and non-fiction, it includes Best SF, Best Mysteries, Best Zombie & Vampire, Best Environmental Doomsday Books, Memoirs, and
• Hospital taps powers of Abba and flash mobs to encourage handwashing - (via @BostonUpdate)
• This evening at 7 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall the Natick Historical Society is presenting a talk by Jim Morley on his new book Hometown Natick: 1945-2000. There will be refreshments and a book signing opportunity. Copies of the book will be for sale
• Loved the book, loved the movie, will see the remake because with a cast like this, how can it lose? That's the hat trick! At last Portis is getting his due.
• A Monday morning chuckle...
• Thank You, Donors Your Annual Fund gifts are now buying new fiction, nonfiction, and DVDs for patrons of all ages. Thank you for making a difference! If you'd like to join the Donor Community, please visit to make a secure online gift or for info
• The secret is revealed...
• Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification System, was born December 10, 1851. The story is that he formulated the DDS while in convocation when he was an undergraduate at Amherst College. But we classify that under 398.2 -- Myths.
• The Natick Historical Society is hosting a talk by Jim Morley on his new book Hometown Natick: 1945-2000, on December 14 at 7 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall of the Library. There will be refreshments and a book signing opportunity. Copies of the book wi
• Thank you MathWorks !
• Volunteers from MathWorks are here today helping us with projects we've been needing done.
• Winter Harmony : A Holiday Concert with Broadmoor Chamber Singers. Saturday December 11 at 3 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall. Seasonal choral music, suitable for all ages, drawn from the group's varied repertoire of classical, folk, jazz, gospel and
• Have you noticed the new tab on this page? If you click on the Catalog tab you can search the Minuteman catalog.
• It's time to think about those letters to Santa and get them sent. As a courtesy for our younger patrons, the Children's Library has a convenient mailbox for Letters to Santa and the deadline of December 14th is fast approaching. Have you been
• From the Local History Dept: the day after Pearl Harbor, Japan invaded the Philippines and were held off in delaying actions by the Philippine Scouts, the last cavalry regiment of the US Army. Michael E. Morris, a Natick shoemaker, after fighting with Co
• Tuesday is National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. The Library will be hosting ceremonies in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall from 7 to 9 PM.
• TCAN Annual Benefit tonight with Jimmy Webb and Karla Bonoff! Some very special guests and patrons arriving from throughout New England and New York!
• Next week the Library will offer 3 Foundation Center webinars for grant seekers at 1:45 - 3 PM in the Community Room. Tuesday is Grantseeking Basics; Wednesday is Introduction to Finding Funders; Thursday is Proposal Writing Basics. For more information
• The Friends of the Senior Center are having their annual Holiday Bazaar Saturday December 4 from 10 AM to 3 PM. Hand-made items, bake sale, white elephant table, raffles, Friends gift shop (lots of great deals there!) all at the last big event in the Ken
• "The America I loved still exists at the front desk of our public libraries." -- Kurt Vonnegut.
• Natick's annual Holiday On The Common is Sunday December 5 from 2:30 PM to 5 PM, with the lighting ceremony at dusk (around 4:45 PM). At the same time the Congregational Church is having an alternative Holiday Fair. Music, crafts, hot cocoa, vis
• We are so close... can you help us get to 15,000 views?
• Happy Hanukkah to all our friends !
• If you can stand another book-buying list, here is the absolutely best one ever, divided by age group and fully annotated. As the author says, "I want to be the goddess who gave the perfect book to the kid who 'doesn't read.'" Fr
• If an E-Reader is on your wish list this year, here is an updated list of devices compatible with our OverDrive download-able ebooks.
• We are working with Natick Pegasus cable access channel on a new television program showcasing arts events in Metrowest...check this out!
• Tomorrow, Wednesday, the Bookmobile will be at the Army Labs from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM. Library Director Linda Stetson will be accompanying Rose.
• Photos With Santa
• The Natick Historical Society will present a program on Sunday December 5 from 2 to 5 PM at Eliot Memorial Hall on Route 16, South Natick by Anthony Vaver, PhD. on the history of the Natick Shakespeare Club. Natick boasts the oldest, continuously running
• Also on Wednesday December 1, there will be a 30 minute Preschool Film Fest at 10:30 AM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall. Children must be accompanied by an adult and there is no registration required. Three 7-minute fun films will be shown : Frog Goes to Di
• The Golden Tones will give a concert Wednesday December 1 at 3 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall. As seen on CNN, this senior chorus performs over 50 live concerts a year. So come early to socialize and put a sparkle in your holiday with a sing-along conce
• Here's a bit of Natick trivia...What are the two busiest days of the year at Casey's Diner? Answer: Marathon Monday and the day after Thanksgiving.
• Our Handwashing Flash Mob has been posted for 20 days today and it has well over 12,000 views!
• Auditions this week! Come out this Monday or Wednesday evening!
• On this day in 1965, 20-year-old Arlo Guthrie was convicted of littering in the Berkshire County town of Stockbridge, and the song "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" was born.
• A few days ago we highlighted the Booklist top sci-tech books of the year. Here is the list for youth (children & teens). Archaeology, animals, engineering and snowflakes all made the list.
• At the Morse Institute Library we are thankful for all the people who use our resources and services. Whether you walk in the door, use the bookmobile or connect with us electronically, we appreciate your support throughout the year. Happy Thanksgiving e
• New website for TCAN Players! Check it out at www.tcanplayers.org
• Top Science books of the year from Booklist. Any one of them woul be a great gift and if you want to see more reviews, look the title up in Minuteman. The enhanced content there includes reviews from library journals.
• Happy Thanksgiving from MetroWest Medical Center! Don't forget to wash your hands!
• Just a reminder that the Library will be closing today, Wednesday, at 2 PM.
• Heading into the home stretch as Thanksgiving approaches, it doesn't hurt to check what others recommend for cooking the bird. Here you'll find thawing charts, roasting times, alternative ways to cook turkey, top questions asked, and answers to
• Starts With A Bang won physics.org top honors in website/blog categories and deservedly so. Beautifully illustrated, packed with interesting information that's fun to read, the author manages to take on difficult subjects and explain them clearly.
• November 23, 1984
• This is my kind of Best of the Year list.
• This week in observation of Thanksgiving Day, the Library will close Wednesday at 2 PM and be closed all day Thursday. The rest of the week we are open the usual hours. Friday & Saturday 10 AM - 5 PM and Sunday 2 - 5 PM.
• Hometown Natick: Author talk
• Lynne and Rich Montross hold the Friends of the Library's most recent fundraiser, the Book Lover's Calendar for 2011. It costs only $10 and proceeds go to the Friends who support many of the programs offered at the Library. There are many othe
• Susanne Stern and Maggie DeVries, originators of the Friends, were honored Sunday at a Tea celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Friends of the Library. They received flowers and a gift bag of all the items the Friends sell, including the new Book Love
• Videos from the New York Times: how to carve a turkey, bake the perfect pie crust & roll it out without breaking it up. Stuffing and sweet potato pie on the side. Yummy!
• The Library is a collection point for the US Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program. Directly inside the front door is a box for new unwrapped toys. Did you know that the Toys for Tots logo was designed by Walt Disney in 1948?
• As a service to our younger members, the Children's Library will have a "Letters to Santa" mailbox available from Friday November 26 through Tuesday December 14.
• Next week the Library will be closing at 2 PM on Wednesday November 24, and be closed Thanksgiving Day November 25. Friday, Saturday and Sunday the library will be open its usual hours.
• On this day in history, Nov.19,1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.
• From the glittering literati at the NBA awards, two great quotes: Joan Ganz Cooney, creator of Sesame Street, said "Parents and care givers have to be reminded that no game experience can compare to being read to by a loving adult." Patti Smith
• Over 5,000 views!
• The current book display in the lobby is titled Handmade Holidays and in keeping with that theme, here is an idea for a gift to engage the whole family. To assist your research, the library has 3 online databases: Ancestry.org, HeritageQuest and the New
• Patti Smith's _Just Kids_ has won the National Book Award. A moving memoir of her friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe in the 60's and 70's NYC art scene, it is as well a story of finding your place in life, discovering what you were meant
• The next Wednesday morning book group meets December 15 at 11 AM. This month's title is Lakeshore Christmas by Susan Wiggs, a funny and poignant treat, according to Library Journal. Copies are available at the Circulation Desk and for more info call
• You are invited to join the new Facebook page for Rock Off Main Street, TCAN's award-winning all-ages rock program sponsored by Berklee College of Music Summer Programs!
• Kirkus Reviews 2010 Best Books for Children and Teens is here.
• This Saturday, November 20, the Bookmobile is beginning a new series of once-a-month neighborhood visits. From 10-10:45 AM they will be at Natick Green and from 11-11:30 AM they will be at Kendall Crossing. Future scheduled dates are Dec. 18, Jan 22,
• Food for Fines begins November 22. Bring in non-perishable items and exchange them for returning materials late, or fines on your record. Donations go to the Natick Service Council for the Natick community. Call the Circulation Desk for more information
• Do you like a fast-paced story that keeps you on the edge of your seat? I'm currently reading "The Last Stand," by Nathaniel Philbrick. He does an excellent job of taking the reader back to the High Plains of Montana, Wyoming, and the Da
• In reading more of the Narratives from the Natick GAR Post 63, a fourth Natick man has been found who was a Marine during the Civil War. Henry Thompson was an apprentice shoemaker and said "My service was not very important as at the time I was only
• We have had more than 2800 views already! Keep on sharing - it is a fun way to promote a great message!
• Not an easy job to adapt the Harry Potter books for the screen and remain true to the original.
• A totally hip guide to the National Book Awards, due out next week.
• TCAN becomes a comedy club next Friday, November 19! This is always a blast...the night will feature Stephen Bjork, Jimmy "PJ" Walsh and Artie Januarion. Kick back and have a laugh!
• Tomorrow is the big Arts & Artisans Craft Show to benefit Kids Connect in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall of the Library from 10 AM to 3:30 PM. Local artists are highlighted. Kids Connect is a non-profit tutoring program serving the youth of Natick.
• Good information here (with links to other resources) on how to choose just the right picture book for children.
• You know how we feel about making sure the children in your life have plenty of books, so here's a list of the year's best for kids (and a link on the page to the best books for adults as well). All annotated. All your gift-giving can be accomp
• Thursday is Veterans Day and the Library is closed. Town parade starts at 10 AM, East Central St. & at 11 AM the ceremony begins on the grounds of the Library at the Veterans' Honor Roll.
• Francis J. Foley , a World War II Army veteran, chats with Library Director Linda Stetson during today's 7th annual Veterans Breakfast sponsored by the Library and the Natick School Department. Veterans shared their stories with eighth-graders from
• Nov. 10, 1775 is celebrated as the birthday of the US Marine Corps, when Col. John Glover and his Marblehead (MA) Mariners were commissioned by George Washington under the authority of the Continental Congress. Marines honor this day with the ceremonial
• The Natick Shakespeare Club
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• The Evening Book Group's next meeting is Wednesday, December 1 at 7 PM in the Community Room, Lower Level. The book is Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, a brilliant exploration of one day in a woman's life. For more information, contact Jennifer
• Tuesday November 9 local author and Natick area native P.J. Karr will present a program from her book AHA!: Epiphanies to Release the Spirit Within at 7 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall. Her dramatic presentation and commentary will help you tune in for &
• Saturday November 6 Dr. Joel Herskowitz and Dr. Roya Sayadi will present a program from their newly published book, Swallow Safely : How Swallowing Problems Threaten the Elderly and Others at 2 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall. It will be of interest to s
• The Natick Historical Society presents Amelia Earhart's Last Lecture, Sunday November 7 at 2 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall of the Morse Institute Library. Join actress and historian Linda Meyer for her one-woman show based on Earhart's own sp
• Meet Amelia Earhart
• Wednesday November 3 commemorate Veterans Day with a concert by Sears and Conner, "Boston's favorite song duo," at Creative Connections, 3 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall. From the American Revolution to World War II eras, songs by Irving
• The Natick Rockettes. Circulation staff rocks!
• Spooktacular Saturday on the Common with the Bookmobile.
• The Natick Veterans Oral History Project has been on the road, visiting the Senior Health and Wellness Fair sponsored by Sen. Spilka and will be at the "Women Are Veterans Too" event at the State House on Nov. 4.The site http://www.natickvets.o
• Another sneak peek! The full video is coming next week!
• MetroWest Medical Center CEO, Andrei Soran and MetroWest Chamber of Commerce President and CEO, Bonnie Biocchi met during Infection Prevention Week to discuss ways to share the importance of hand washing with the community. Look what happened!
• On display in November and December in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall, Lower Level, is the art of Irwin Thompson who works in oils and mixed media.
• Rosie Cat is the Bookmobile mascot, riding everyday on the Bookmobile with Big Rose and attending storytimes. Children used to send her postcards from their vacations and she even went to the National Bookmobile Conference in Denver where she made a new
• Due out this week is Richard Peck's YA novel, Three-Quarters Dead, that is a "compulsive page-turner paranormal horror story that captures the extremes of joy and dread, belonging and ostracism that are at the core of the high school experience
• 52 Ways to Use Your Library Card http://www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/card/52ways.cfm
• The 2011 Oldtown Calendar is out and will soon be for sale at the Library. A fundraiser for several organizations, it features photos capturing the best of Old Town in Natick and surrounding areas. They make great gifts. For more information, see http://
• Lee Child's 16th Jack Reacher crime thriller is due out next week. Stephen King calls him the "coolest continuing series character" and this time out Reacher has to put down the local clan that has cowed a small Nebraska town and solve a d
• MetroWest Medical Center is honoring women during Breast Cancer Awareness Month!
• Crawl, fly or creep on over to the Annual Halloween blood drive! Join us for a Spook-tacular time today from 12:00 Noon to 7:30pm. MacPherson Hall, 85 Lincoln St, Framingham Don’t be a scaredy cat, first 100 blood donors will receive a
• Just a reminder that the Library will be closed Sunday & Monday October 10 & 11 for Columbus Day.
• Check out Behavioral Medicine’s Therapy Dogs In the Natick 4th of July Parade!
• MetroWest Medical Center has been designated a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery!
• Wednesday, July 28th Behavioral Medicine’s Pet Therapy Volunteers were presented a fabulous dinner in the Helm Auditorium (Chez Helm) by our wonderful catering staff. This dinner was the result of Behavioral Medicine’s Pet Therapy volunteers
• Do you have old or expired medications in your medicine cabinet? MetroWest Medical Center can help you safely dispose of your medications in an environmentally friendly way at our Green Fair, Sunday, September 12th from 1-4pm, at MetroWest Medical Center
• Sign up for our Health for Life Relay, October 9th! http://www.mwmc.com/community-resources/HealthforLifeRelay.aspx
• Canoe Races were a huge success! Congratulations to "The Cutting Edge" - 2 time CHAMPIONS!
• MetroWest Medical Center is honoring women during Breast Cancer Awareness Month!
• The TCAN Players are in rehearsal for Doubt, the Pulitzer prize-winning play by John Patrick Shanley. Opening night is Friday, November 5 2010. Pictured here are Ron Lacey (Father Flynn), Maggie Nichols (Sister James) and Renee Miller (Sister Aloysius).
• Tomorrow Robert B. Parker's last novel _Painted Ladies_ is due out and "Spenser can still nail a person's foibles on first meeting, still whip up a gourmet meal in a few minutes, still dispatch the thugs who haunt his office and his home
• Getting Creative with Artists from Natick Open Studios. The monthly Creative Connections meeting is this Wednesday, October 6 from 3-4 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall. Join us for a creative meeting with three talented artists from the Natick Open Studi
• Sign up for our Health for Life Relay, October 9th! http://www.mwmc.com/community-resources/HealthforLifeRelay.aspx
• Canoe Races were a huge success! Congratulations to "The Cutting Edge" - 2 time CHAMPIONS!
• MetroWest Medical Center is honoring women during Breast Cancer Awareness Month!
• The TCAN Players are in rehearsal for Doubt, the Pulitzer prize-winning play by John Patrick Shanley. Opening night is Friday, November 5 2010. Pictured here are Ron Lacey (Father Flynn), Maggie Nichols (Sister James) and Renee Miller (Sister Aloysius).
• Tomorrow Robert B. Parker's last novel _Painted Ladies_ is due out and "Spenser can still nail a person's foibles on first meeting, still whip up a gourmet meal in a few minutes, still dispatch the thugs who haunt his office and his home
• Getting Creative with Artists from Natick Open Studios. The monthly Creative Connections meeting is this Wednesday, October 6 from 3-4 PM in the Lebowitz Meeting Hall. Join us for a creative meeting with three talented artists from the Natick Open Studi
• Check out Behavioral Medicine’s Therapy Dogs In the Natick 4th of July Parade!
• MetroWest Medical Center has been designated a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery!
• Wednesday, July 28th Behavioral Medicine’s Pet Therapy Volunteers were presented a fabulous dinner in the Helm Auditorium (Chez Helm) by our wonderful catering staff. This dinner was the result of Behavioral Medicine’s Pet Therapy volunteers
• Do you have old or expired medications in your medicine cabinet? MetroWest Medical Center can help you safely dispose of your medications in an environmentally friendly way at our Green Fair, Sunday, September 12th from 1-4pm, at MetroWest Medical Center
• Tomorrow Robert B. Parker's last novel _Painted Ladies_ is due out and "Spenser can still
• Getting Creative with Artists from Natick Open Studios. The monthly Creative Connections meeting is
• MetroWest Medical Center is honoring women during Breast Cancer Awareness Month!
• Thank you to our sponsors of the Garden Tour!
• The TCAN Players are in rehearsal for Doubt, the Pulitzer prize-winning play by John Patrick Shanle
• Canoe Races were a huge success! Congratulations to "The Cutting Edge" - 2 time CHAMPION
• Sign up for our Health for Life Relay, October 9th! http://www.mwmc.com/community-resources/Healthf
• Country Garden Tour a big success!
• A Recognition of the Contributions of Anne & Fred Schaller
• Health For Life Fair! Saturday, May 15th, 10am-1pm MetroWest Medical Center 85 Lincoln Street, Fram
• Complete our 2010 Hospital Week Scavenger Hunt for a chance to win $50! MWMC Employees: Match the b
• Health For Life Fair! Saturday, May 15th, 10am-1pm MetroWest Medical Center 85 Lincoln Street, Fram
• Check out Behavioral Medicine’s Therapy Dogs In the Natick 4th of July Parade!
• MetroWest Medical Center has been designated a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence by the Americ
• Wednesday, July 28th Behavioral Medicine’s Pet Therapy Volunteers were presented a fabulous d
• MetroWest Medical Center can now let you know what our average Emergency Room wait times are, even
• Our ER Texting service mentioned on WBZ this morning, take a look!
• Do you have old or expired medications in your medicine cabinet? MetroWest Medical Center can help
• A reminder that this coming weekend is the Labor Day holiday. The library will be closed Saturday t
• This from the Guilty Pleasures Department: next week _Gunn's Golden Rules_is due out by Projec
• Wednesday the Bookmobile visited the Natick Army Labs for the first time and had a wonderful turnou
• The Young People's Library had 600 participants in the Summer Reading Program, Go Green at You
• Another behind-the-scenes peek into the Library. This is the Computer Network Room where all the ne
• Happy Hospital Week, MetroWest Medical Center!
• Young Broadcasters of America Offers Broadcasting for Adults
• Past Events: The Singing Trooper
• Past Event: 2010 Country Garden Tour
• Past Events: Traditional New England Folksongs
• TCAN Players Present: Twentieth Century
• Past Events: Celebrate 140 Years of the Natick Historical Society
• With the new IRS, coming forward is the best option for late filers, non-filers, and delinquent paye
• Fancy Nancy Author, Jane O'Connor, Invites Fans to Fun Presentation in Natick
• Free, Open-Source Software Workshop
• Frederick Douglass At The Natick Historical Society
• Natick MA Real Estate Guide
• Henrietta Cooks! At The John Eliot Memorial Hall
• NE Historic Genealogical Society Comes To Natick!
• Natick man pens “Plaintiff’s Perspective” on civil RICO.
• Free training on ZOLL AED Pro and AED Plus
• Babysitter Lessons and Safety Training In Southeastern Massachusetts (BLAST)
• Storytime for Preschool Listeners - Favorite Folktales
• TCAN Players announce auditions for Dancing News

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