the internet’s go-to source for discerning what is true and what is total nonsense.
Politifact
Factcheck.org
American Press Institute
Washington Post Fact checker
Yellowstone National Park
NASA MAKES THEIR ENTIRE MEDIA LIBRARY PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE AND COPYRIGHT FREE
Climate Crisis – Causes, Effects, & Solutions on Youtube: Jim Lagomarsino and Meg Haight, Hardwick residents and members of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, (CCL) a non-profit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address climate change.
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Exceptional Web Sites for Children
Business Schools in Massachusetts and elsewhere
http://www.childrenslibrary.org/
A Library for the World’s Children
Free eBooks – Project Gutenberg
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
The best free cultural and educational media on the web
THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC GUIDES
Use the following links to find articles from your favorite magazines, scholarly journals, and reference books, including Time, Newsweek, Science News, the Harvard Health Letter, The New York Times, Fodor’s Travel Guides, and more.
Gale Databases
New York Times Best Seller List
Topic Finder
Resources by Subject
Welcome to Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
Explore historical collections from DCR, libraries, museums, and archives across Massachusetts
https://www.genealogyexplained.com/basics/free-genealogy-websites/
http://www.massachusettsgenealogy.com/index.html
Boston Public Library Historic Resources
The Boston Public Library‘s history and genealogy collections are unique and vast. They have items about nearly every place in Massachusetts, and much of New England, including “more than 30,000 wide-ranging materials from the 17th–21st centuries.” There is more information here. Also take a peek at newspapers at the BPL.
https://www.familysearch.org/
https://library.biblioboard.com/home
Special Collections and University Archives
University Libraries | UMass Amherst
The Republican from 1844-1989
The Republican Archive
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Quaboag Valley Community Development Corporation Mission: “To improve the quality of life in the Quaboag Valley by addressing the economic environmental, and social needs of its residents while maintaining the integrity and character of each community in the region.”
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MassHire Springfield, formerly FutureWorks, assists people in building skill sets to meet the needs of businesses. MassHire Springfield offers companies recruitment options from large job expos, to on site recruitment and workshops to advance job search and career training options for individuals.
*information on healthcare education and career paths
*ways to afford college
*support to current healthcare professionals
- educate teens about potential jobs
- encourage their job building skills for future employers with blog posts and other resources
- provide teens with resume writing tips, job fair information, interviewing best practices, work permit info, volunteering opportunities, and other information to help them succeed
- spend countless hours researching and compiling information that teens need such as companies that hire teens by state, jobs for teens by age, work permit info, and more
the largest network of volunteer, expert business mentors, providing workshops and education in partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
Local Info
Town of Hardwick Website – Provides information on municipal services, municipal government meetings, and other information of local interest.
My Town Government – Provides a listing of all upcoming municipal meetings in Hardwick, as well as an archive of past meeting minutes.
Quabbin Regional School District – Information about the Hardwick and regional school system.
Hardwick Town Fair – Learn more about one of our nations oldest traditional town fairs, hosted annually in Hardwick each summer.
Quaboag Valley Community Development Corporation – a non-
Find your state and local representatives
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Voter Registration Forms
These tools for libraries were built through a partnership with vote.org and were made possible through a grant from Non-Profit Vote.
You can use them to register to vote on your library’s website. They are free to use and are available to use by voters in all 50 states!
Family TIES is a project of the Federation for Children with Special Needs, funded by and in collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Family Health and Nutrition, Division for Children and Youth with Special Health Needs
Health Sites suggested by Baystate Health Services:
Better Health Channel – https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/
FamilyDoctor.org – http://familydoctor.org/
HealthLinkBC – https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases -https://www.niddk.nih.gov/
NHS – www.nhs.uk
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