by Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Recently, Richard DeSorgher, a popular local historian and former Medfield history teacher, spoke on the history of the Medfield State Hospital to a full-capacity crowd gathered at Farthest Star Sake, located off North Meadows Road.
The Bellforge Arts...
by Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Needham’s own talented high-school age band, The Tapples, was chosen as one of seven Massachusetts bands to compete in a preliminary round of the Last Band Standing talent showcase and competition organized by the New England Music Awards. They appeared at...
By Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Needham’s venerable Great Hall Concert Series, celebrating 10 years in 2023-2024, presented Sweet Honey In the Rock®, celebrating their 50th year in Powers Hall. Sweet Honey in the Rock, an all-woman, African-American a cappella group, was established in 1973. The enormously...
By Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Reporter
The Medfield Coalition for Public Education (MCPE) held their 17th Annual fun-style spelling bee on March 15 at the Medfield High School Auditorium. The event was graciously sponsored by Medfield Orthodontics. Rounds were held first for Dale School, and then for...
By Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Reporter
In case you weren’t aware, there will be a total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024! There won’t be another one until August 3, 2044. At the Walpole Public Library on Thursday, March 14, award-winning photographer Silvana Della Camera shared important...
by Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Reporter
The affable David Wheeler led a lighthearted discussion on principles of healthy eating in his talk, “Delicious Diabetic Cooking,” at the Dover Town Library (DTL) on Saturday, March 9. He shared his knowledge of nutrition, took questions, and offered recipes and...
by Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Reporter
The Westwood Artists, an informal collaborative of makers living in Westwood, are holding their sixth annual gallery show in the main branch of the Westwood Public Library from March 1 to 29. The show features the work of 13 local artists...
by Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Reporter
The Beth Shalom Garden Club and Needham High School’s art department collaborated for the 16th year to present Needham’s Art in Bloom on March 9 and 10 at the Needham Free Public Library (NFPL). This highly anticipated annual spring event showcased...
by Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Recently, as part of its Library Foundation of Needham series, the Needham Free Public Library presented Rachel Silber Devlin discussing her new book “Snapshots of My Father, John Silber” with Matt Robinson, host of “The Writer’s Block” on the Needham Channel.
By Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Reporter
One of nine rallies planned by Nikki Haley in the days leading up to Super Tuesday, the Needham rally began at the Sheraton Boston Needham Hotel on Friday night, with the crowd filtering in, holding lawn signs aloft, proudly wearing campaign...
by Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Needham High School’s Take Back the Night club held their annual domestic and sexual violence awareness program on Thursday, February 8, at the Needham Town Hall. The club shared local stories of violence against women to help the community recognize the...
By Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Imari Paris Jeffries, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer of Embrace Boston, spoke at the Needham Free Public Library as part of Needham’s Black History Month observance. In his presentation, he explained the guiding principles behind the selection of the 20-foot-high...
By Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Visual Teaching Artist Gowri Savoor led two lantern-making workshops at the Medfield United Church of Christ. They were the first of several workshops that will be held in Medfield to prepare for the inaugural Illuminate: Lantern Parade & Festival to be...
By Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Reporter
On Wednesday, February 7, The Walpole Public Library (WPL) held an opening reception for “Impressions” A Retrospective-William “Bill” St. George, 1939-2015. The reception was attended by family, friends, and fans of the Walpole artist, who admired St. George’s large-scale, impressionist, bright,...
By Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Aime Alley Card, a nonfiction editor for Pangyrus literary magazine and a board member for the Women’s National Book Association, Boston Chapter, recently spoke at the Walpole Public Library about her newly released book “The Tigerbelles: Olympic Legends from Tennessee State.”
By Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Heather Beck held a Metalsmith Bookmark Workshop at the Dover Town Library (DTL) at the end of last month. Beck has a BFA in metalworking and her own workshop in Massachusetts. She offers classes in several libraries throughout the state. The...
By Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Reporter
At the Westwood Public Library on January 22, Becca Heyman led a workshop on crocheting a small amigurumi kitty key chain. The term “amigurumi” is a combination of two Japanese words, “ami” which means “crocheted or knitted and “nugurime” which means...
by Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Reporter
The Friends of the Sherborn Library’s Welcome Committee hosted a lovely Winter Social and art show, “Ode to the Sea,” on Saturday evening, January 20, in the library’s cozy Community Room. The evening was snowy and cold, but once inside, attendees...
By Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Sustainable Medfield and Medfield TV held a fun one-hour Soup Group event last Thursday night at the Medfield TV studio on North Meadows Street. Approximately 20 participants watched the premiere of a video on making minestrone soup with pesto and then...
by Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Reporter
The Zullo Gallery's delightful Holiday Exhibit 2023 opened on November 18 and will run through January 7. The exhibit was described by the gallery as "a variety of unique, quality, affordable art, $50-$375. On December 7, the gallery held an Artists' Reception...
