Needham sisters to receive Joslin award
Amilia’s Light Garden Party May 24
Amilia’s Light supports programs that are empowering and changing the lives of women who are victims of human trafficking.
The community will gather to help continue Amilia's Light's work at the annual Garden Party on Thursday, May 24, from 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. at the home of the founder and president Michelle Luhrmann, 26 Loeffler...
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Westwood celebrates Opening Day
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
On April 29, Islington Center was bustling with excitement. Parents and caregivers lined the sidewalks near Morrison Field and readied their phones to record the highly anticipated parade. A Westwood fire truck and police cruiser rolled by, making the hundreds of children that marched behind the vehicles visible. They...
Lyons, Antonucci lift Wolverines past Raiders
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Entering Friday, it had been quite some time since the Westwood High School varsity boys lacrosse team defeated rival DS; five years, to be exact.
Off to one of their best starts in program history, the Wolverines wrote the latest chapter of their exceptional beginning to the 2018...
Cultural Council holding community conversation
The Westwood Cultural Council is inviting the people who live and work in town to help advise them about how best to allocate public dollars for programs and activities in the arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences. The all-volunteer, municipally-appointed council receives an annual allocation of money to fund projects by individuals, organizations, and schools that...
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Brass band to play church fundraiser
The New England Brass Band will celebrate spring with an outdoor, family-friendly concert on Saturday, May 5, at First Parish of Westwood, to be held rain or shine. This concert is the second in a series for fundraisers to raise money to replace the church's aging piano.
In only a few short months since the inception...
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WHS Performing Arts season blossoms
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By Lisa Moore
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
The WHS Spring Performing Arts season has kicked off, showcasing a wide variety of talented students in areas of dance, vocal music, and performing arts.
Wellesley Moving Company, a WHS dance company directed by Janet Sozio, performed its annual Footnotes concert, a collaborative dance concert. This one-night-only show was...
Balter, Lady-Raiders roll past Wildcats
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
The Wellesley High School girls varsity lacrosse team welcomed Milton last Tuesday afternoon for a key Bay State Conference showdown.
Behind a stellar performance by senior captain and Northwestern commit Maddy Balter (five goals, two assists), along with four goals from fellow senior captain and Stanford commit Caitlin Chicoski,...
WSO to close season at MassBay
The Wellesley Symphony closes its season on Sunday, May 6, with Brahms’ mighty Symphony No. 1 and the rhapsodic, technically brilliant Glazunov Violin Concerto performed by Wellesley native Julia Glenn. The overture Cortège de Bacchus from Delibes’ opera, "Sylvia," opens the program.
Brahms worked on his his first symphony for over twenty years. Haunted by the...
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Rotarians distribute saplings to students
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Every year, the Rotary Club of Wellesley purchases and bags 500 tree saplings for distribution to Wellesley fourth graders.
Susy Jordon, Wellesley town horticultural technician, hands out the bagged saplings to Wellesley fourth graders for planting. She also teaches a lesson on Arbor Day conservation while handing out the trees.
The Rotary Club of...
WHS to present spring musical
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Wellesley High School is set to present its spring musical, the Tony award-winning “Peter and the Starcatcher.” Adapted from Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s best-selling children’s novel, “Peter and the Starcatcher” is a highly imaginative prequel to J.M. Barrie’s original Peter Pan story. For children, it is a fresh take on a familiar...
Wellesley to celebrate Rachel Carson
The Wellesley Board of Selectmen have designated May 27, 2018, as Rachel Carson Day to commemorate the birthday of the famous ecologist who launched the modern environmental movement with her book, "Silent Spring," in 1962. In a proclamation released today, the Board of Selectmen call on fellow Wellesley citizens to remember Rachel Carson’s life and...
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Crowes Pasture delivers impressive folk performance
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
In East Dennis on Cape Cod, there’s a small salt marsh called Crowes Pasture. After spending some time in the area, Monique Byrne and Andy Rogovin decided to name their acoustic folk duo after the marsh. Unbeknownst to the Boston-based musicians, Crowes Pasture is an infamous party spot for...
Walpole’s Bushway, UMB set track record
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Walpole native Jack Bushway and the UMass-Boston track and field team finished in third place overall at the Little East Conference (Division III) New England Alliance championships at Bridgewater State University on Saturday afternoon, and in doing so, made a little history.
Serving as one of the four legs...
Seniors walk portable labyrinth
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Although France is certainly the place to be for delicious crepes and designer-brand shopping, more spiritual tourists prioritize walking the labyrinth built into the floor of the Chartres Cathedral.
However, because the cathedral is more than three thousand miles away, Walpole’s seniors gathered at the senior center on April...
NEC students wow CATH seniors
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Four times a year, students from the New England Conservatory (NEC) make their way to Needham’s Center at the Heights (CATH) to perform for the town’s seniors. It’s a valuable partnership for all involved, and the NEC’s visit on April 25 was one to which the seniors were very...
Needham High feminists ‘GEC’ together
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Every Wednesday, students in Needham High School’s Gender Equality Club (GEC) meet before the start of school for a discussion. Throughout Needham High, the club aims to educate their peers about feminism and advocate for gender equality.
To get more involved in their mission to achieve worldwide gender equality, the...
Hem, Lady-Rockets cruise past Mustangs
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
The defending Division I state champion Needham High School varsity girls lacrosse team traveled to Norwood on Thursday afternoon for their final-ever matchup against the Mustangs in Bay State Conference play; Norwood is heading to the Tri-Valley League next season.
Behind a hat trick and pair of assists...
Donson, Yogel exhibiting at Open Studios
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More than forty local artists will open their doors for Needham Open Studios during the weekend of May 5-6; Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. Visitors to this free event can meet artists, tour studios, and browse and purchase original artwork at fifteen locations throughout...
BSO Chamber Players coming to Needham
On Saturday night, May 12, The Great Hall Performance Foundation will welcome the Boston Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players to Needham. One of the world’s most distinguished chamber music ensembles sponsored by a major symphony orchestra and made up of principal players from that orchestra, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players include first-chair string and wind players...
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