By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Cancelled in both 2020 and 2021, the Friends of St. Patrick luncheon and parade finally returned to Walpole this year, which meant that two years after his nomination, Jim Brady could finally accept his Person of the Year award.
Cooper McCann, Youth of the Month
The Needham Exchange Club has recognized Cooper McCann from St. Sebastian's as its Youth of the Month. He is a member of the Cum Laude Society for his outstanding academic achievements and won the Harvard Book Award for “excellence in scholarship and character”. McCann has played baseball, hockey and...
Tapples take stage at Hard Rock
By Beatrice Beutel
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
After two and a half hours of various musicians performing their 20-minute sets in an epic battle of the bands, The Tapples finally took the stage. They opened with an original song, “Streets in the Evening,” which immediately had the audience...
Needham’s Hem a force for Harvard
By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
The light at the end of the tunnel is more than just bright for Needham native Callie Hem — it’s glistening.
Throughout the last five years, the former Needham High lacrosse star has dealt with a seemingly...
Mustangs rally by Warriors
By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Nothing beats the atmosphere of a high school hockey playoff game. With Pirelli Arena in Franklin serving as the home ice for both the Medfield and Medway High School boys hockey teams, Wednesday night’s round of 16 match between the...
Brewmaster Brian Flach joins 7th Wave
Brewmaster Brian Flach has joined 7th Wave Brewing Company of Medfield. Flach has been working with beer since interning with New England Brewing Company in 2008, before becoming head brewer at Tullycross Tavern (Manchester, CT), Boston Beer Works (Framingham), John Harvard’s Brew House (Framingham), and Back East Brewing (Bloomfield,...
Pancake breakfast returns with sheriff visit
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Pancakes, sausages, cantaloups, grapes, coffee and the opportunity to ask Norfolk County Sheriff Patrick W. McDermott any questions you may have, were on the menu last Thursday morning, as the Center held its first pancake breakfast since the start of the...
Late Dane Kasschau’s family creates 5K
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Unrecruited out of high school, during his freshman year at Lehigh University, Dane Kasschau walked onto the lacrosse team. Heading into his sophomore year, the coach told him the team might not have a spot for him. Senior year, they named...
Senior café returns, post-Omicron
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
This fall, the Sherborn Council on Aging brought back their senior cafés at Pilgrim Church, after having previously had to shut them down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, when the Delta and Omicron variants brought COVID back in a major...
Rinaldi, Spellman advance Raiders by Abington
By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Following a 71-56 victory against No. 25 Shawsheen in the round of 32, the No. 8 seed Dover-Sherborn High School boys basketball team hosted No. 9 Abington on Wednesday night in a battle of the last...
‘Beauty and the Beast’ makes visits
Days before sixty Dover-Sherborn High School students perform “Beauty and the Beast” at Mudge Auditorium, they took their show on the road, visiting the two elementary schools in the regional school district: Pine Hill and Chickering. The elementary school students were delighted to see some of their favorite Disney characters come to life...
Dover Church worship featuring bluegrass band
The Dover Church, located at 17 Springdale Avenue in Dover, is welcoming the community to join it for a special worship service featuring bluegrass gospel music on March 27 at 10:00 a.m. The music will be provided by the Pilgrim Bluegrass Gospel Band, founded by Dover residents Geoff and...
DSHS readies ‘Beauty and the Beast’
Dover-Sherborn High School is bringing the enchanted world of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” to the stage in Mudge Auditorium on Thursday, March 17 at 6:30 p.m.; Friday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m.; and Saturday, March 19, at 1:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
It has been three years since the...
Dover’s Rachel Liu produces ‘Student Body’
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
It all started when Rachel Liu didn’t want to share a bathroom.
At least, that’s what the Dover-Sherborn High School graduate turned Hollywood producer says when pressed on how she came to work in film. Currently promoting “Student Body”, a horror movie...
Hawks advance to elite eight
By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
A 16-3-1 (6-3-1) regular season earned the Xaverian Brothers High School varsity hockey team the No. 2 seed in the MIAA Division I state tournament.
Following a 4-0 victory over Andover on March 2 in the round of 32, the Hawks...
Westwood basketball’s season ends at home
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Down two with a chance to play Malden Catholic on the line, on the final possession of their game against Nauset, the Westwood boys’ basketball team missed what would have been a game winning three, as well as what would have...
Thurston Welcome Club heads to Hale
On Wednesday, February 2, Mother Nature watched over the Thurston Welcome Club as it headed to Hale Reservation. The Westwood area had just received about 20 inches of snow, yet the temperature was unseasonably warm. The conditions were perfect for snowshoeing.
Walonis, Bindon shoot Timbs into Sweet 16
By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
The Bay State Conference champion and No. 4 seed Walpole High School girls varsity basketball team welcomed in No. 29 Notre Dame Academy (NDA) on Friday night for the MIAA Division II round of 32.
Behind a...
Walpole basketball survives, advances against Foxboro
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Whatever the official capacity of the Walpole High School gym is, on Friday night, it was met and exceeded by a large margin. That’s what a playoff matchup between two neighboring towns will do.
But while there were...
Paul Clerici to speak at library
Photo courtesy of Paul Clerici
The Friends of the Walpole Public Library are excited to be able to resume live events at the library, although with masking and distancing protocols, and still with contingency plans, due to the continuing pandemic.
The Friends' first...
