• Hurricane Central — News and maps from Weather.com
• National Hurricane Center — From the National Weather Service

September means back to school!

Here are some great guides with reports on school bus safety, healthy breakfast and lunch, homework, school supplies, dealing with bullies, college finances and more:

Channel 7 News | BostonChannel | Consumer Reports | ParentDish | FamilyFun

Added to the Home and Family Page :

• AllRecipes.com — This popular site has a large collection of recipes, articles and special features on food, cooking and entertaining
• FoodNetwork — Recipes, articles, videos and other features
• New York Times: Dining and Wine — Articles, reviews, recipes and features on food, nutrition, entertaining and more.

Added to the Search Tools Page:

• SearchMe — This new search engine has a visual interface that makes it easy to quickly flip through stacks of screenshots, images or videos.
• Cuil — Pronounced “Cool,” the site is named for the Irish Gaelic word for “knowledge,” and it claims to index more pages than any other search engine.
• GoodSearch — This search engine, powered by Yahoo, donates half of its advertising revenue to the charities, libraries and schools designated by the user.

Added to the Health Page :

• National Institute of Mental Health — “The mission of NIMH is to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery and cure.”
• Psych Central — “Psych Central is the Internet’s largest and oldest independent mental health social network created and run by mental health professionals to guarantee reliable, trusted information and support communities to consumers, for over 13 years.”
• Health.com — This site from Time, Inc., includes news stories, features, and health tools, and is written by a staff of professional journalists. According the this site, they “…focus on problem-solving content to help you make decisions during complicated, stressful times. We write in plain English, using real-life examples.”
• Health News — The New York Times health site includes news stories, features, guides for many different issues and conditions, and healthy recipes.

Added to the Home and Family Page :

• Zeer — This site displays the nutritional information for over 100,000 different kinds of prepared and packaged food from the grocery store. Members can join group discussions, rate and review products, create shopping lists and more.

Added to the Genealogy Page :

• Geni — This social networking site for genealogy allows users to collaborate with family members to create family trees in a secure and private environment, importing and exporting data in the standard GEDCOM format

Added to the NOBLE for Kids Books Page :

• Lookybook — Click the pages to read whole picture books online