Progress Norwood

06/07/2026

What a beautiful town Pride celebration yesterday. Gratitude to all our community partners and guests. Thank you to everyone for your donations to this year's charity, the Anemoni peer respite.The weather cooperated and everyone brought their best selves and had fun. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

05/22/2026

Date: Saturday 6/6/26 (rain date Sunday 6/7/26)

Time: 3-5PM

Location: Town Common

ANNUAL NORWOOD PRIDE CELEBRATION ON THE COMMON JUNE 6 AT 3PM

We invite everyone to join the town’s sixth annual Pride Celebration on the Norwood Town Common on Saturday, June 6 from 3:00-5:00 pm. We encourage you to support our local downtown businesses for dinner or bring your own food and whatever else you’ll need for comfort and weather. Enjoy our beautiful Central Street Greenspace. Everyone is invited to dress comfortably and colorfully for this fun, casual celebration with neighbors and family. This is a drop-in event and no registration is required. Our rain date is June 7, 3:00-5:00 pm.

Norwood’s Pride Celebration marks the beginning of Pride Month, a month dedicated to celebrating and honoring LGBTQ+ history and culture with parades and other events around the country. These annual events, gatherings, and parties grew out of the Gay Liberation Movement following the Stonewall riots in 1969. Modern Pride events seek to celebrate, center, and affirm the experiences, contributions, and identities of LGBTQ+ people the world over. Our theme this year is Cosmic Kindness, inspired by the adventure and bravery of space exploration. We all deserve to explore our space in the Universe.

Spearheaded by Progress Norwood, the annual Norwood Pride Celebration has partners from a rainbow of other departments and local organizations, including Impact Norwood, the Morrill Memorial Library, and the Norwood Police Department. Progress Norwood will provide craft activities, is planning a costume/dress up promenade and Norwood Pride lawn signs will be available for sale. This year we will be fundraising for Anemoni Peer Respite in Holyoke, MA. Anemoni is Wildflower Alliance’s second peer respite and the first trans and q***r peer respite in the world. Peer respite is a non-clinical crisis alternative for people who are struggling with emotional distress.

05/04/2026

We open Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week by celebrating progress made! The National Maternal Mental Health Hotline is a resource many of us wished we had when we were pregnant or after we gave birth to our babies. It is free, confidential, and available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
You can call, text, or chat to contact the Hotline and a trained counselor will listen and help. Counselors speak English and Spanish but they offer interpreters who can support over 60 languages.
And, yes, partners and family of pregnant and postpartum women are encouraged to contact the Hotline!

05/03/2026

05/02/2026

Check it out.

You won't want to miss this fun and engaging community program! Register at: https://norwoodlibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/community-conversations-36-questions-for-civic-love-2/

04/30/2026

This Friday!

Join us in action on Friday, May 1st, 2026.Sign up here for free bus from Worcester to rally in Boston2:30 - LUCE Rally by the State House4:30 - Statewide May Day Rally Sign the May Day Pledge (English!) Sign the May Day Pledge (English!) Firma el Compromiso de Mayo 1o (español) Firma el Compromiso...

04/27/2026

‼️Just a reminder because we are early in the season but if you participated in a cleanup today please do a tick check! (Picture for attention.)

To learn more about ticks check out the virtual talk on Tuesday night with

https://norwoodlibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/community-tick-talk/

04/26/2026

***Edited to add: Approx. 60 bags of trash filled from 14 different locations around Norwood.***

Thank you Norwood! Nothing better than an event that brings together the community. Today’s 2026 Norwood Earth Day: Cleanup, Community Picnic, and Fair was a big success thanks to all of you! Big shot out to our musicians Ben Hoadley and Misfit Toys Band and all the organizations that joined us at the fair WCC Thrift Shop - Norwood, MA Norwood MA Farmers Market Norwood DPW Norwood Trails Committee Supply Bulk Foods Girl Scout Troop 64065, Norwood Swap Shop, Impact Norwood, Friends of the Morrill Memorial Library, Norwood Cultural Council, Norwood MA, Hilltop Natives, Homeworks Energy, Norwood Sustainability Commission, Norwood Light Department, Norwood For All, Norwood Community Garden Mylod St., Norwood Mass, Norwood Conservation Commission, Norwood Food Forest, Jenn Martinelli Rybicki and family for running the clothing exchange, and our wonderful volunteer face painters!

The clear bags show the substance abuse related waste that was collected at the 13 cleanup sites in town.

04/24/2026

Pride Soccer Game - Discount tickets & FREE PARKING!⚽🌈

The Boston Legacy has invited us to their first ever Pride Night on May 3rd at 3:00pm at Gillette Stadium!

They are offering us tickets at a discounted rate of $29 each with free parking IF we get 50 tickets. Please fill out the form to tell us how many tickets you would buy. If we receive 50 tickets worth of interest, we will send another form so you can pay for those tickets.

Sign up by 3pm Monday, April 27th to express interest on this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekE7jX9dSbo3K8DNT9U1PwZUZceXRewGLu2BzN3nN3jhxaoA/viewform

04/23/2026

Earth Day Info!