By Amelia Tarallo
Hometown Weekly Staff
As spring arrives, outdoor activities have returned to the Walpole Public Library.
Patrons of the Walpole Public Library are especially glad to see the return of outdoor storytime, long a favorite activity among younger members of the community. During the colder...
While the team gave up ten runs, teammate Ellie Donahue pointed to Kelsie Pittman’s complete game as a highlight.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
With kids playing catch on the side of Claxton Field, others climbing up the giant rock, mask-less people lounging in...
While the entire project isn't done yet, enough is done that teams and individuals can use the new fields.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Although the project isn’t complete yet, the fields off Route 1A are finally in use, nearly a decade after a...
With a mixture of plastic and burlap bags, the group set out from Twin Post Road towards Hale Reservation.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
If you’ve spotted giant bags of trash laid out on the sidewalks of Westwood this week, you may have wondered...
Medfield's Jack Sullivan (11) and Dover-Sherborn's Emilio Cabey (83) fight for positioning on punt coverage. Photo by Mike Flanagan.
By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Since 1966, Dover-Sherborn Regional and Medfield High School varsity football have settled their differences in front of a packed...
By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Even after a year off due to COVID, Walpole High School girls varsity lacrosse enters 2021 with extremely high expectations. When your program wins the back-to-back Division II East sectional championships (2016, 2017), followed by back-to-back East sectional titles (2018, 2019) in your first...
Senior defensive tackle Noah Eldridge (55) flexes in celebration following a tackle-for-loss during Xaverian football's 49-13 season-ending win against St. John's Shrewsbury on Friday. Photo by Mike Flanagan.
By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
To say its been an non-ideal way to end their...
By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
We're still a long way from home, but recent improvements in the fight against COVID-19, as well as accommodations made by the MIAA, are going to allow for a closer to normal spring lacrosse experience in 2021.
After the 2020...
By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Always a major player in Division I South, few varsity girls lacrosse programs in Massachusetts have been more consistent throughout the past decade than Westwood.
With almost two full years now having passed since their last season, the Wolverines enter...
Will we see this picture again, with a "2021 Champions" banner lying across the front of it? The Orioles sure felt that was a possibility.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
“I think we’ll go 17-0, as long as we actually get to play seventeen...
By Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Editor
Years ago, when I was a small child, I spent my weekdays alongside my maternal grandmother, Ma, who watched me while my parents worked. In retrospect, those days had an outsized influence on me - it was in Ma’s kitchen where I first would develop...
There aren’t many art shows where the same wall will feature a first grader’s unique, glasses wearing fish, a high school freshman’s layered portrait, a third grader’s Monet inspired landscape and an alternative take on the “Anne of Green Gables” cover from a high school sophomore.
Slam poet Jamele Adams asked the crowd to fill the chat section with anything positive that was happening in their lives.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
In celebration of National Poetry Month, on Wednesday night, the Dover Town Library invited six local poets,...
While a regular Needham family was living there not long ago, this house will soon be turned into a library in celebration of N.C. Wyeth.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Picture Paul Revere’s famous “Midnight Ride.” If you're familiar with the image of the...
By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Needham High School varsity girls volleyball entered this unprecedented season with targets on their backs. The reigning Division I state champs, the Rockets entered 2021 having not lost a match since 2018.
With just 12 regular season games and no...
By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Coming off a 17-0 win at home against Medway on April 9, the Dover-Sherborn Regional High School varsity football traveled to Norton on Friday night looking to make it a pair of wins in a row and improve to 4-1.
Pictured during his sophomore season in 2019, UMass Lowell committed face-off specialist and midfielder Ben Quinn will serve as one of three Walpole High School varsity boys lacrosse co-captains. Photos by Mike Flanagan.
By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
The last time Walpole High...
James Wilder (3) avoids an Ashland tackler and cuts up the middle on one of his team-high 26 carries.
By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Medfield High School varsity football traveled to Ashland on Friday afternoon shorthanded, as three key members (TJ Casey, Jared...
Senior Thomas Garland (27) sets the edge while blocking on punt coverage. Photos by Mike Flanagan.
By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
The No. 3 Xaverian Hawks traveled to West Roxbury on Saturday to square off against the No. 1 Catholic Memorial Knights...
By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Coming off a gut-wrenching, last-second 42-36 defeat at Hopkinton on April 3 that featured three James Wilder touchdowns, the Medfield High School varsity football team hit the road again on Friday night looking to respond at Holliston.
