On This Day In Norwood History- August 15

Videos of flooding from today’s torrential rain storm.

🍗 Restaurant & Takeout Prices (Skillet Restaurant at Norwood Plaza) Item Description Price Chicken-in-the-Bucket 2½ lb chicken, 4 rolls, cole slaw, fries $2.65 Bucket of Clams Fried clams, fries, cole … Continue reading Retrospective: 1965 Pricing for Homes, Cars, Restaurants…

This Day In Norwood History-August 15, 1963-With Norwood’s Debonnaires

This Day In Norwood History-August 15, 1963-Summer Training

This Day In Norwood History-August 15, 1963-Local Musicians in Battle of the Bands

This Day In Norwood History-August 15, 1963-To Hear Shopping Center Application August 27th

This Day In Norwood History-August 15, 1957-Laud Norwood Area For Initiative In Attracting New Industrial Plants

🚗 Town Budgets and Buick Sedans: Debating Civic Spending in 1957 Norwood In the summer of 1957, a quiet but pointed debate unfolded in the pages of the Norfolk County … Continue reading Town Budgets and Buick Sedans: Debating Civic…

This Day In Norwood History-August 15, 1957-New Parish House

Damage estimated at $400 was caused to this two-car garage In the rear of 98 Casey Street, owned by Thomas Conley, on Monday night. A carelessly tossed cigarette Is blamed … Continue reading Garage Fire-This Day In Norwood History-August 15,…

Four Norwood men have been assigned to D Company, 4th Training Regiment, at Fort Dix, N. J., for eight weeks of Infantry basic training in conjunction with the 1955 Reserve … Continue reading Four From Norwood Training With Army Reserve…

This Day In Norwood History-August 15, 1957-New Shopping Center

This Day In Norwood History-August 15, 1957-Trophy Races At Norwood Arena Saturday

These news items were the talk of the town on August 15, 1957

The rejection by the state of Norwood’, request for matching funds for paving the Access load to the Metropolitan Airport was discussed by the Selectmen at Tuesday’s meeting. A request … Continue reading Airport Authorities Will Be Requested To Reconsider…

Young Walter McNally of Dorchester Wanted to Enter on Wooly West Career There. Late last evening J. S. Cheney, clerk of a store in the Sanborn block in which the … Continue reading Dorchester Youths Sought Texas at Norwood-This Day…

These news items were the talk of the town on August 15, 1902

CHARLES P. SHATTUCK. Charles P. Shattuck, father of Edmund Shattuck, of the Morrill Ink Co., died Monday, August 3. at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Fred Boyden. His death … Continue reading Obituary For Charles P. Shattuck-This Day In…

These news items were the talk of the town on August 15, 1896