The pandemic has affected every community event this spring, including the annual New Life 5K Trail Run, an event that raises more than 20 percent of the New Life Furniture Bank’s budget. This Massachusetts charity serves nearly 700 hundred households every year, including individuals, families, single mothers, seniors and...
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Social Distance Files: ‘Walden’ in Sherborn
By Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Editor
“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” ― Henry David...
Dover Foundation invites scholarship/grant apps
The Dover Foundation is inviting scholarship and grant applications, which are due on May 1.
The Dover Foundation is a non-profit, all volunteer organization, that has served the Dover community since 1947. Its mission is to foster community spirit, neighborliness cooperation, friendships, and services within the...
Sen. Rausch announces virtual office hours
Senator Rausch (D-Needham) will host her next virtual office hours this Friday, April 10, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. via www.facebook.com/events/198428084936914/. Conversations with the Senator and her staff will take place over Google Hangouts, Skype, and phone calls.
Residents from any part of the Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex District...
Bio Blitz nature challenge announced
Wellesley residents are invited to grab their smartphones, download the free iNaturalist app (iPhone/Android), become a citizen scientist, and get out to the town's trails and sanctuaries to help catalog all the bio-diversity in Wellesley. The Conservation Council will have weekly challenges and call-outs for the most observations, most unique species, and more....
COA steps up during crisis
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
To an occasional visitor, working at the Walpole Senior Center seems like a pretty sweet gig. You sign in a couple of seniors, maybe do some scheduling, watch a little pool, catch a presentation on Broadway music of the 1940s, grab a sugar cookie, and...
MIAA sports back May 4
By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
The MIAA has pushed back the potential start of the 2020 spring athletic season to May 4, at the earliest, the organization announced on March 30. Originally scheduled to resume on April 27, the decision to push back the start of the season an...
Davis unveils complementary photography exhibits
By Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
The Davis Museum at Wellesley College is hosting two complementary photography exhibitions that focus on the beginnings of photography in the 19th century, as well as repeating subjects in snapshots of the early to mid-20th century. “Making, Not Taking: Portrait Photography in the 19th Century” and “Going Viral: Photography, Performance, and...
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Home of the Week – 43 Ledgetree Road, Medfield
Welcome to a gorgeous home located in an exceptional neighborhood! Welcoming foyer opens to a living room filled with natural light, across the way is a stunning dining room with wainscoting. You’ll fall in love with the warm and inviting kitchen with granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, eat-in-kitchen, and breakfast bar with views of...
What made Westwood
2019: A year in review: Another Patriots Super Bowl. A fire at Notre Dame. The birth of a British royal. Whatever held our attention over the last year, 2019 was certainly a year to remember. Closer home, Hometown Weekly’s communities of Dover, Medfield, Needham, Sherborn, Walpole, Wellesley, and Westwood all experienced their own unique...
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What made Wellesley
2019: A year in review: Another Patriots Super Bowl. A fire at Notre Dame. The birth of a British royal. Whatever held our attention over the last year, 2019 was certainly a year to remember. Closer home, Hometown Weekly’s communities of Dover, Medfield, Needham, Sherborn, Walpole, Wellesley, and Westwood all experienced their own unique...
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What made Walpole
2019: A year in review: Another Patriots Super Bowl. A fire at Notre Dame. The birth of a British royal. Whatever held our attention over the last year, 2019 was certainly a year to remember. Closer home, Hometown Weekly’s communities of Dover, Medfield, Needham, Sherborn, Walpole, Wellesley, and Westwood all experienced their own unique...
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What made Needham
2019: A year in review: Another Patriots Super Bowl. A fire at Notre Dame. The birth of a British royal. Whatever held our attention over the last year, 2019 was certainly a year to remember. Closer home, Hometown Weekly’s communities of Dover, Medfield, Needham, Sherborn, Walpole, Wellesley, and Westwood all experienced their own unique...
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What made Dover-Sherborn
2019: A year in review: Another Patriots Super Bowl. A fire at Notre Dame. The birth of a British royal. Whatever held our attention over the last year, 2019 was certainly a year to remember. Closer home, Hometown Weekly’s communities of Dover, Medfield, Needham, Sherborn, Walpole, Wellesley, and Westwood all experienced their own unique...
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What made Medfield
2019: A year in review: Another Patriots Super Bowl. A fire at Notre Dame. The birth of a British royal. Whatever held our attention over the last year, 2019 was certainly a year to remember. Closer home, Hometown Weekly’s communities of Dover, Medfield, Needham, Sherborn, Walpole, Wellesley, and Westwood all experienced their own unique...
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Home of the Week – 21 Turtle Brook Way
Charming Cape, an end unit at The Village at Medfield, a 55+ community. Approx. 1,702 sq ft. 2 Bed/2 Bath. This beautiful, bright and light unit features a 1st floor with a kitchen with gas cooking, cherry cabinets, upgraded counters, vaulted ceiling, lovely tile back splash, a great dining area and plenty of windows;...
John Pritchard receives Quarter Century Award
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
When you think about Massachusetts industries, odds are that seafood, higher education or some form of finance are going to come to mind well before confectionery or candy will. But on Tuesday night, John Pritchard taught a room of people how prevalent the industry once was in the...
Volleyball busts slump against Wellesley
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
On Friday night, The Westwood Wolverines volleyball team beat the Wellesley Raiders three sets to one, in a game that sharpened some tools for the Wolverines before the postseason tournament, and provided a much-needed wake-up call for a Wellesley team that was on a roll following a strategy change.
In...
Home of the Week – 168 Bridal Trail Road
Saddlebrook custom contemporary colonial on a beautiful, private wooded acre. This GORGEOUS home boasts a first floor master suite, spacious artist's studio above garage and indoor swim spa! The spectacular entry foyer welcomes you to over 3000 square square feet of living space on the first floor alone. There is a massive chef’s kitchen...
Hale-O-Ween returning Oct. 26
