Check Out New Local Voices Contributions

Start the new year off with a great new habit: reading the Local Voices at Patch. The vibrant blogging community tackles topics from financial advice to historical topics to everyday challenges around parenting, relationships and surviving in light of tragedy.

To help you get started on this resolution Patch offers up some of the most recent blog posts:

Home Improvement Information Available to Suffolk Library Patrons

The Public Libraries of Suffolk County offer a new database via Live-brary.com which provides advice on home improvement, repairs and renovations in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

Stress and Weight Loss for 2013

How Stress can negatively affect health efforts if not dealt with in a healthy manner.

Profile of Driver Lee Frayer by his Great-Great Grandson

Lee Frayer was an automobile innovator, designer of one of the first air-cooled engines, and driver in the 1906 American Elimination Trial and the 1911 Indy 500 Race.

Seven Uncomfortable Truths For the New Year

Letting go of the old and ringing in the new might take a little bit of work...

Financial Resolutions To Make This Year

It’s a new year! Some resolutions you keep and some are easily forgotten. Here are some suggestions for some resolutions that you can’t afford not to make (and keep)!

Film “The Race That Changed Everything” with Edsel B. Ford II

In October 2011, Ford Racing uploaded this eight minute film of "The Race That Changed Everything" narrated by Edsel B. Ford II

The Leveling of the Playing Field

A recent ruling by the Second Circuit Courts of New York could make it easier for families of special education students to get the services and placements that they need most!