A team of 12 employees from Wellesley-based financial planning firm Convergence Capital cooked and served dinner on Nov. 4 for families staying at The Boston House. The Brookline nonprofit provides free homelike lodging to families whose children are being treated for cancer and other life-threatening hematological diseases at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston...
By Isabell Macrina Hometown Weekly Staff
The owls of New England are brilliant creatures that fly silently and can spin their heads nearly all the way around, but how do they get enough nutrients at night to keep active. Miss Heather led an activity for kids explaining all about at owl’s diet, how they digest...
The Needham Concert Society will perform works widely acknowledged as masterpieces of the chamber music literature by Mozart and Brahms at a concert on November 22 at Needham’s Carter Memorial Church, 800 Highland Ave., at 3 p.m. When they composed their respective quintets, each for two violins, two violas, and cello, these composers were...
Thank you Sherborn! The Sherborn Town Clerk, together with the Student Directors of the Sherborn Community Center Foundation, ran another successful Election Day "Vote & Donate" Food Drive to benefit A Place to Turn in Natick. Collection of non-perishable food and personal care items took place during the Midterm Election at Sherborn Town Hall November 3rd....
The Trustees and the Norfolk Hunt Club invites the public to a special display of equestrian pageantry and tradition at Tally Ho! The Amelia Peabody Memorial Hunt, on Saturday, November 21, at 1:00PM at historic Powisset Farm in Dover. Spectators will have a rare opportunity to witness riders in traditional attire navigating jumps and...
By Meghan Foley Hometown Weekly Staff
Last Friday, boys’ soccer played their first game of the postseason for the preliminary round of the playoffs against Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School. “Monty Tech” is the 41st seed in D2 with a 9–6–3 record while Dover-Sherborn is the 24th with 8–9–1.
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Grace DiMatteo, a 7th grade student at Dover-Sherborn Middle School, has taken the first step to become an internationally recognized artist by winning a local competition sponsored by the Sherborn Lions Club.
DiMatteo’s poster was among more than 600,000 entries submitted worldwide in the annual Lions International Peace Poster Contest. Lions International is sponsoring...
By Isabell Macrina Hometown Weekly Staff
With the weather cooling down and the sun setting earlier, what better time than to learn a new craft from Crafting with Rachelle. This week, she brought along a craft that can be done with materials from your own backyard and some paint, pebble birds!
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Grace DiMatteo, a 7th grade student at Dover-Sherborn Middle School, has taken the first step to become an internationally recognized artist by winning a local competition sponsored by the Sherborn Lions Club.
DiMatteo’s poster was among more than 600,000 entries submitted worldwide in the annual Lions International Peace Poster Contest. Lions International is sponsoring...
By Ken Chaisson Hometown Weekly Staff
The Walpole Porkers field hockey team persevered to a 3-0 victory over the Central Catholic Raiders on Saturday November 7, 2026 at Walpole High School. Walpole (13-3-2) is seeded 5th in Division 1. The
Raiders (7-9-2) were seeded 28th. The two teams have...
Seven Walpole Girl Scouts recently earned their Bronze Award, the highest award a Junior Girl Scout can earn. The now sixth graders’ project, “New and Improved Girl Scout House” focused on refurbishing the fire pit area at the nonprofit Walpole Scout House. To earn the Bronze Award, a team of Girl Scouts researches what...
By Ken Chaisson Hometown Weekly Staff
On a warm, rainy night, the 5th seeded Walpole Timberwolves’ football team (6-2) soaked the 12th seeded Westfield Bombers (6-2) at John Turco Stadium on Friday November 6, 2026 by a final score of 48-18 in the first round of the division 4 playoffs.
Senior captain Mason Falcone shredded...
By Isabell Macrina Hometown Weekly Staff
While Halloween may be over, November is still fall and full of warm, autumnal colors needing more décor. The people at Walpole Public Library wanted to help create decorations to keep the fall season going while utilizing what they already had...
By Isabell Macrina Weekly Staff
In 1997, psychologist Arthur Aron explored whether intimacy between two strangers could be accelerated by asking each other a set of 36 questions, or 36 questions to fall in love as presented by an episode of “The Big Bang Theory.” Today, the people at National Public Housing Museum have modified...
On Sunday, November 1, Westwood Community Chest (WCC) hosted its annual Luminary Night, generously sponsored by Needham Bank. These photos show a couple of the houses that participated in the event. Funds raised from the sale of Luminary Kits support WCC's mission of helping Westwood residents in...
By Meghan Foley Hometown Weekly Staff
Playoffs began last week with three Westwood teams qualifying.
The field hockey team is the 7th seed this year with a regular season record of 9–4–5. Last Thursday, they beat 26th-seeded Marblehead (7–8–3) 3–0. This past Tuesday, they will have hosted 10th-seeded Notre Dame Academy (8–9–1). If they won,...
A jack-o’-lantern full of Halloween candy greeted visiting teams at Westwood High School on Saturday, Oct. 31, as Westwood’s national small school champion Quiz Bowl team hosted its inaugural tournament.
The academic competition drew 10 teams from across Massachusetts and Rhode Island, including regional powerhouses Belmont, Waltham, and Brookline—all of which competed alongside Westwood...
By Beck Gentile
Hometown Weekly Staff
Medfield’s Julia Adrian never thought she’d end up here. Adrian is a Nashville-based pop music performer and songwriter. Since the release of her debut EP, an EP with potential, Adrian has begun to make a name for herself in the Nashville music scene, performing at beloved venues like...
By Isabell Macrina
Hometown Weekly Staff
You are probably familiar with the playground rhyme “Lizzie Borden took an ax/And gave her mother forty whacks, /And when she saw what she had done, /She gave her father forty-one” about the double murder that happened in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1892. The story of Lizzie Borden...
The Medfield Garden Club invites the community to a presentation by Loretta Carrigan. Loretta is a longtime member of the Medfield Garden Club and will demonstrate how to make floral arrangements and plant baskets with fall plants and accents. All five items will be raffled.
Loretta has been the head of our garden therapy...
