The Record Weekly: Ring the Bell and Buy the Hospital
The Record Weekly: Ring the Bell and Buy the Hospital
Jul 11, 2026
Happy post-Fourth of July, Norwood! 🎉
We hope you had as much fun celebrating our nation's 250th birthday as we did. Judging by the thousands packing Washington Street and the Town Common last Saturday, we're pretty sure you did.
On the legislative side, the State House of Representatives passed its side of the eminent domain bill for the Norwood Hospital. Now it just needs the senate and the Governor (and then a whole bunch of further steps) to hopefully bring the hospital back online after more than six years.
Meanwhile, Life Scout Bridgette MacLeann is working hard on her Eagle Scout project with the Trails Advisory Committee to bring mindfulness to the Ellis Playground Trail.
Also, the Town's own No. 7 fire bell has found a new home at Town Hall after decades sitting idle in the belfry 📣.
Dive into this week's issue to read about these stories and more from around Norwood.
Top stories
Norwood beats the heat for Fourth of July
by Paulina Duarte
House passes hospital taking
by Jeff Sullivan
Trails Advisory Committee helping prospective Eagle Scout
by Jeff Sullivan
Also in this issue
- Ringing the Bell: July 4, 2026,Washington No. 7 by Patricia Fanning
- Norwood historic bell gets a place of honor on the Fourth of July by Susan Kryczka
- Building A Bridge by Don Reddick
- Why Don’t They Just Create Individual Social Security Accounts? by Russell Gloor
- A real cowboy at Sammy’s by Joe Galeota
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