MCPE announces ‘Golden Ticket’ winners
Touch-a-Truck on June 9
The Westwood Young Women Club's annual Touch-a-Truck event will be held Saturday, June 9, from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. at Westwood High School. The day of activities will feature bounce houses, a petting zoo, train rides, crafts, food, and of course, lots of trucks and vehicles - even a helicopter.
The event will be...
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Smiling faces abound at Walpole Day
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By Rachel Borman
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
Despite gray skies and on-again, off-again rain showers, Walpole Day brought together hundreds of families, organizations and local businesses to celebrate the beginning of spring.
“Walpole Day serves as our big kickoff for all the warm weather activities we have planned,” said Arielle Carney, assistant director of the Walpole...
Watercolor artist delivers presentation of dreams
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
It may seem risky for a dentist to trade in his three decades of work in the field for a painting career, but that is exactly what award-winning watercolor artist Andrew Kusmin did. At his presentation at the Walpole Public Library on May 2, Kusmin affirmed to the audience...
‘Cardiac Conor,’ Rebels thrill in OT
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Outside of the annual Needham/Wellesley tilt, few Bay State Conference lacrosse games have as much riding on them as the Walpole/Wellesley game.
On Tuesday, the Raiders and Rebels took to Turco Field for their annual meeting with both teams trying to earn a statement victory to help improve...
POPS launches instrument donation initiative
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Wellesley Parents of Performing Students (POPS) has just announced a new instrument donation program in collaboration with the Wellesley Public Schools. This community-wide initiative will provide musical instruments to Wellesley students in grades K-12, enabling them to sign up for lessons, play in school ensembles, and develop a passion for the performing arts....
MCPE Spelling Bee winners announced
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Students from Medfield’s Dale Street and Wheelock Elementary Schools gathered at the Medfield High School auditorium to compete in a fun and friendly spelling competition hosted by The Medfield Coalition for Public Education. Teams of three to four students, dressed in fun costumes and entertaining t-shirts, met onstage in an attempt to out...
Kelley, Lady-Rockets outlast Finn, Wolverines
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
The previous two MIAA Division I state champion girls lacrosse programs met at Memorial Field last Thursday afternoon as the No. 7 Needham Rockets hosted the No. 19 Westwood Wolverines.
Despite being without two of the top players in the state in Callie Hem and Lilly Doherty due to...
Weycker’s gem lifts Raiders past Chmielewski, Rockets
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Two of the Bay State Conference’s elite baseball programs met last Wednesday afternoon at Memorial Field as the defending Division I Eastern Mass champion Wellesley Raiders traveled to face their arch-rivals, the Needham Rockets.
Behind a complete game, seven-strikeout performance by left-handed ace Hank Weycker, the Raiders (10-4, 5-3)...
Needham Garden Club studies tulip history
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
“We know them as spring flowering bulbs,” said Ila Cox, a plant lover and gardener. She pointed to a vase on the table inside of the Needham Free Public Library’s Community Room, where members of the Needham Garden Club met for their monthly meeting.
Springing out of the vase were...
Needham author releases ‘She’s Not You’
By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
One wouldn’t think a small town on the tip of Cape Cod could hold so many secrets and mysteries. However, Needham-based author Judi Getch Brodman created a world in which an isolated fishing village became the setting for possible murders, resurgent visions, and disturbing stalking in her debut novel “She’s Not...
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Youth & Family Services awards seniors
Needham High School Assistant Principle Alison Coubrough-Argentieri joined Needham Youth & Family Services to honor graduating high school seniors who currently volunteer in either the Peer Tutor or VIP Mentoring Program. Seniors were honored at a ceremony in the Needham Town Hall on May 10.
Award recipients included: Cassie Bailey, Jeff Barbieri, Isabel Barnet, Gloria Bond,...
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Farmers Market opening May 27
The 2018 Needham Farmers Market will open Sunday, May 27. The planning committee has been meeting all winter long, working with brand new and returning vendors and coordinating events and activities to make the Market a community-wide, family fun place to be on Sunday afternoons in Needham. The Market thrives in its central location on...
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Schofield, Warriors outlast Carothers, Raiders
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
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DS track secures TVL Small title
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Boasting an undefeated spring season, Dover-Sherborn Regional High School track and field team (both boys and girls) have secured the Tri-Valley League Small championship.
“It has been an amazing season, all around,” said enthused DS head coach Maura Bennett. “This spring our runners, jumpers and throwers worked so hard and as the cliché goes,...
A Doughboy’s Story
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By Kevin Shale
A short walk through Highland Cemetery is also a journey through Dover’s history. Here lie the men and women who wrote that history. Yankees to the core, they were farmers, tradesmen, mothers, patriots, and soldiers, some of whom would give their lives in service to their country. We celebrate these heroes...
Brain Busters make waves at Championship
The Sherborn based Brain Busters Robotics team earned the prestigious Judges Award at the FIRST World Championship. The four-day event was held in Detroit and attended by more than 40,000 people, with 15,000 students from 37 countries competing.
The Brain Busters team is comprised of Ryan Bendremer (13), Zachary Szeto (14), and Riya Bahadur (14).
After...
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Mulcahy, Rebel softball walk it off
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
The Walpole High School varsity softball team is off to a ferocious start to the 2018 season, currently sitting at 8-1 on the year and 5-1 in Bay State Conference play.
This past week, the Lady-Rebels took home a pair of W’s while playing a back-to-back set against...
Footlighters season ends with a bang
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Something funny’s going on, and it isn’t very pretty.
The first line, sung by the entire cast of “Lucky Stiff” gives a nearly perfect description of the Walpole Footlighters’ newest production.
Indeed, something peculiar was unfolding on stage, as a miserable shoe salesman, Harry Witherspoon (Francis Sheehan), receives a telegram....
District Art Show celebrates student work
