The Hometown Weekly for all your latest local news and updates! Over 28 Years of Delivering Your Hometown News!  

Monthly Archives: November 2025

Wildcats Win

Last Thursday, girls varsity volleyball (10–1) faced the Milton Wildcats (6–4) for the second time this season. Although in past seasons the Rockets have won more decisively, last month they played all five sets, Needham winning 3–2. Responding to some good hits by the Rockets, the Wildcats had to make a few difficult dives to keep...
Read more

Rockets continue dominate streak

Photo by Meghan Foley Coach Courtney Chaloff speaks to team between sets     By Meghan Foley Hometown Weekly Sports Reporter   Last Thursday, girls varsity volleyball (10–1) faced the Milton Wildcats (6–4) for the second time this season. Although in past seasons the Rockets have won more decisively, last month they played all five sets, Needham winning 3–2. Responding to some good...
Read more

Teens explore the tarot at NFPL

Photos by Isabell Macrina Howells shines in her element, despite the rainy day, excited to open some eyes     By Isabell Macrina Hometown Weekly Reporter   The typical belief of tarot card readings is that it tells the future. People will go to get their fortune told and expect answers. Jackie Howells, at Needham Free Public Library (NFPL), set out...
Read more

Wolverines pulverize Norwood 50-7

Photo by Owen Ziegler Wide receiver Charlie Jessup sprawls out for a catch      By Owen Ziegler Hometown Weekly Sports Reporter   The Westwood Wolverines football team faced off against the Norwood Mustangs in an absurd blowout, the Wolverines winning 50-7, on Friday October 10th. On Westwood's official breast cancer awareness game, dawning hot pink accessories, they came into the game...
Read more

Pine Hill students further family legacy

  By Lenny Strauss Hometown Weekly Reporter   At the 139th New England Flower show at Elm Bank in Wellesley, gardeners and aficionados from across the states entered their plants, veggies, and assorted flora in a competition that made up part of the annual event sponsored by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. At this year’s showing, two students, Joey (age...
Read more

Gravestone Girls visit Walpole Public Library

Photo by Isabell Macrina Going all the way back to the Egyptians with why we bury our dead. We leave them with what they will need in the next world     By Isabell Macrina Hometown Weekly Reporter   Walpole Public Library started the fall season off with a spooky presentation, Welcome to The Graveyard featuring the Gravestone Girls. Brenda Sullivan of...
Read more

Milton edges boys’ golf thrice in a week

Photo by Ken Chaisson Senior Tommy Kowalsky laces a drive on the first hole at Walpole Country Club     By Ken Chaisson Hometown Weekly Sports Reporter   On Monday October 6, 2025, players from Walpole and Milton battled for the Bay State Conference all-stars at Braintree Municipal Golf Course.  The Milton trio edged the Walpole threesome by one stroke, 235-236. On...
Read more

Warriors continue winning streak

Photos by Meghan Foley Matteo Benson (20) attempts to push through crowd     By Meghan Foley Hometown Weekly Sports Reporter   On Friday evening, the Warriors (4–0) took on the Medway Mustangs (3–1) at home. The stands were crowded with players’ families and Medfield high schoolers—who dressed in white for the spirit theme—to kick off the long weekend by going to...
Read more

Field Fest brings fun to the ‘Forge

Photos by Isabell Macrina The Wolff Sisters kick off the event with some classic rock-inspired songs     By Isabell Macrina Hometown Weekly Reporter   Against the brick red of Medfield State Hospital, Bellforge hosted their Field Fest: Fall Music Showcase to celebrate fall in full swing. The chilly October night was alight with music, laughter, and cheer. What better way to...
Read more

Field Hockey pounces on Holliston Panthers

Photos by Meghan Foley Sophia Wichman (blue) takes on Holliston player (white)     By Meghan Foley Hometown Weekly Sports Reporter   On October 6th, Dover-Sherborn’s field hockey team met the Holliston Panthers at home. The Raiders were favored, with a 10–1 record to Holliston’s 5–5–3, and having beaten the Panthers in their previous two matchups.  True to this, the Raiders did...
Read more

Enjoying Fall Fun at Powisset Farm

Photos by Isabell Macrina Try the hayride! See the farm from the comfort of a hay bale   By Isabell Macrina Hometown Weekly Reporter Fall is upon us, and it finally feels like it, so what better way to celebrate than with Fall Fun at Powisset Farm! Every Saturday and Sunday in October, the farm invites everyone to come and...
Read more

Westwood dominates Hopkinton

By Owen Ziegler Hometown Weekly Sports Reporter

On a very, very rainy Thursday night, the Westwood Wolverines football team matched up with TVL rivals, Hopkinton. The muddy game ended with a win for Westwood, 14-0, their second shutout of the season.

With the absence of receiver Charlie Jessup, and the lingering injuries to Westwood's receiving...

Read more

Jones to represent NCS at RI ComicCon

Hometown Weekly cartoonist Tim Jones will be attending this year’s Rhode Island ComicCon, representing the National Cartoonist Society (NCS).  The local cartoonist and Massachusetts native is best known for his self-syndicated comic strip; “SOUR GRAPES.” A whimsical comic strip about “Aesop”, a miserable-flying dog, living in a strange, problematic and troubled world with his...

Read more

Doug Most discusses latest novel at NFPL

By Isabell Macrina Hometown Weekly Reporter

Needham Free Public Library (NFPL) hosted local author Doug Most to discuss his latest novel “Launching Liberty: The Epic Race to Build the Ships That Took America to War.” This historical novel tells the story of President Franklin D. Roosevelt partnering with industrialist Henry Kaiser to create a fleet...

Read more

Best selling author comes to WPL

By Isabell Macrina Hometown Weekly Reporter

Westwood Public Library welcomed New York Times best seller Peter Swanson, author of “The Kind Worth Killing” and “Eight Perfect Murders” to talk about his new book and the one he broke the mold for, “Kill Your Darlings” and the process that goes into his writing.

Swanson was a...

Read more

Westwood dominates Hopkinton

By Owen Ziegler Hometown Weekly Sports Reporter

On a very, very rainy Thursday night, the Westwood Wolverines football team matched up with TVL rivals, Hopkinton. The muddy game ended with a win for Westwood, 14-0, their second shutout of the season.

With the absence of receiver Charlie Jessup, and the lingering injuries to Westwood's receiving...

Read more

Townwide Food Drive on November 15th

The Westwood Cub Scout Troops will once again be hosting their annual “Scouting For Food” Drive to benefit the Westwood Food Pantry on Saturday, November 15th. All residents are encouraged to participate in this drive that stocks the food pantry’s shelves for the coming months.

Over the weekend of November 8/9th members of the...

Read more

Playoff march to a repeat begins

By Ken Chaisson Hometown Weekly Sports Reporter

The two-time defending Division 1 state champion Walpole Porkers’ field hockey team turned Halloween into a ‘trick and treat’ against Central Catholic (CC) beating the Raiders, 7-0, in the round of 32 of the state tournament.

The senior-laden, experienced Porkers...

Read more

Montrose builds turf fields and restores wetlands

Montrose School is excited to announce their Campus Renewal Project is fully underway and expected to finish by summer of 2026. Thanks to generous benefactors, the $8.5 million project includes the installation of two new, regulation-sized turf fields and the restoration of the property’s wetlands.

Montrose...

Read more

Girls’ varsity soccer places first in division

By Meghan Foley Hometown Weekly Sports Reporter Last Tuesday, girls’ varsity soccer held their senior night, celebrating seniors Elizabeth George, Emily Hoffman, Ava Kraus, Isabella La Francesca, Kathryn Layden, Samantha Manning, Athena Polechronis, Catherine Rodenhi, Stella Scobbo, and Libby Sinis. After their win, the seniors ran the width of the field toward friends and family holding up...
Read more