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Youth & Family Services awards seniors

Youth & Family Services awards seniors

Needham High School Assistant Principle Alison Coubrough-Argentieri joined Needham Youth & Family Services to honor graduating high school seniors who currently volunteer in either the Peer Tutor or VIP Mentoring Program. Seniors were honored at a ceremony in the Needham Town Hall on May 10. Award recipients included: Cassie Bailey, Jeff Barbieri, Isabel Barnet, Gloria Bond,...

Farmers Market opening May 27

Farmers Market opening May 27

The 2018 Needham Farmers Market will open Sunday, May 27. The planning committee has been meeting all winter long, working with brand new and returning vendors and coordinating events and activities to make the Market a community-wide, family fun place to be on Sunday afternoons in Needham. The Market thrives in its central location on...

Schofield, Warriors outlast Carothers, Raiders

Schofield, Warriors outlast Carothers, Raiders

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Medfield’s Mike Tyer (40) attempts to fight through a check from DS’s John Sveen (8) midway through the first quarter. Photos by Michael Flanagan

Medfield’s Mike Tyer (40) attempts to fight through a check...

DS track secures TVL Small title

DS track secures TVL Small title

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Boasting an undefeated spring season, Dover-Sherborn Regional High School track and field team (both boys and girls) have secured the Tri-Valley League Small championship. “It has been an amazing season, all around,” said enthused DS head coach Maura Bennett. “This spring our runners, jumpers and throwers worked so hard and as the cliché goes,...

A Doughboy’s Story

A Doughboy’s Story

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By Kevin Shale A short walk through Highland Cemetery is also a journey through Dover’s history. Here lie the men and women who wrote that history. Yankees to the core, they were farmers, tradesmen, mothers, patriots, and soldiers, some of whom would give their lives in service to their country. We celebrate these heroes...

Brain Busters make waves at Championship

Brain Busters make waves at Championship

The Sherborn based Brain Busters Robotics team earned the prestigious Judges Award at the FIRST World Championship. The four-day event was held in Detroit and attended by more than 40,000 people, with 15,000 students from 37 countries competing. The Brain Busters team is comprised of Ryan Bendremer (13), Zachary Szeto (14), and Riya Bahadur (14). After...

Mulcahy, Rebel softball walk it off

Mulcahy, Rebel softball walk it off

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor The Walpole High School varsity softball team is off to a ferocious start to the 2018 season, currently sitting at 8-1 on the year and 5-1 in Bay State Conference play. This past week, the Lady-Rebels took home a pair of W’s while playing a back-to-back set against...

Footlighters season ends with a bang

Footlighters season ends with a bang

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter Something funny’s going on, and it isn’t very pretty. The first line, sung by the entire cast of “Lucky Stiff” gives a nearly perfect description of the Walpole Footlighters’ newest production. Indeed, something peculiar was unfolding on stage, as a miserable shoe salesman, Harry Witherspoon (Francis Sheehan), receives a telegram....

District Art Show celebrates student work

District Art Show celebrates student work

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter Walpole Public Library patrons may have noticed the wide variety of beautiful artwork during their last visit to the building. With dozens of student-created pieces from each one of Walpole’s public schools on display, members of the community have been able to witness first hand the amazing work that...

This Star Won’t Go Out hosting event

This Star Won’t Go Out hosting event

Along with his wife Lori, the Rev. Dr. Wayne Earl, interim minister at East Walpole's Union Congregational Church, will be hosting a free informational meeting about This Star Won't Go Out (TSWGO), the charity they established in 2011 in memory of their daughter, Esther Grace. Esther died from cancer at age 16 and was the...

First Parish welcomes NEBB

First Parish welcomes NEBB

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter It’s not often that Westwood residents have the opportunity to see 30 brass musicians performing together just minutes away from their homes. So when that opportunity arises, members of the community are eager to see it in person. On Saturday, May 5, the New England Brass Band, a 30-piece brass...

Tyer, Warriors fight off Donohue, Wolverines

Tyer, Warriors fight off Donohue, Wolverines

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor Two of the TVL’s elite met last Wednesday evening with first place in the conference on the line as the Westwood Wolverines (8-2, 5-1), coming off of consecutive road victories over Dover-Sherborn and Hopkinton, traveled to face rival and the defending Division II Central/East champion Medfield Warriors (6-5,...

WPD addresses Westwood Woman’s Club

WPD addresses Westwood Woman’s Club

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The Westwood Woman's Club's Thursday, April 19, tour of the new Westwood Police Headquarters had to be postponed for the next program cycle. Instead, the police came to the club meeting at the COA. Members enthusiastically welcomed Sergeants Salcedo and Sicard to review the latest information on the many fraudulent telephone, mail and...

Westwood High showcases musical talent

Westwood High showcases musical talent

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter Westwood Public Schools’ Performing Arts department always manages to impress the community. From the elementary string concert to the middle school band concert to the high school musical, the town has made it clear that its students are bursting with talent. Westwood High School once again seized the opportunity to...

WHS stars in ‘Peter and the Starcatcher’

WHS stars in ‘Peter and the Starcatcher’

By Lisa Moore Hometown Weekly Correspondent Each spring, the WHS Drama Society performs a more intimate production in the little theater affectionately known as the black box. This limited-seating space immerses the audience in the theater experience, as the action of the actors and movements of scenery and props seem all the more overwhelming in the unique,...

Chorale Society gala concert May 13

Chorale Society gala concert May 13

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Wellesley Choral Society (WCS) will conclude its 70th Anniversary season with a gala concert and reception on Sunday, May 13, at 4:00 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Wellesley Hills, 309 Washington St., Wellesley Hills. The Society chose two works for this special concert. The first is the world premiere of a...

Elm Bank beckons anew

Elm Bank beckons anew

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter For some, the start of spring is the date of the March equinox. Others don’t consider the season to have arrived until the snow melts away and the trees and flowers begin blooming. However, for many, the spring finally springs when the Massachusetts Horticultural Society opens the Gardens at...

Magic show to raise Alzheimer’s funds

Magic show to raise Alzheimer’s funds

Encouraged by the audience response to its magic show of last May in the Wellesley Wonderful Weekend, Boston Ring of the International Brotherhood of Magicians (IBM Ring 122) has decided to do another stage show that will again be raising money for the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund, headquartered in Wellesley. However, this time, the stage show...

Elm Bank beckons anew

Elm Bank beckons anew

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter For some, the start of spring is the date of the March equinox. Others don’t consider the season to have arrived until the snow melts away and the trees and flowers begin blooming. However, for many, the spring finally springs when the Massachusetts Horticultural Society opens the Gardens at...

Creative Colors tickles patrons pink

Creative Colors tickles patrons pink

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter After a long, chilly winter, residents of Dover rejoiced in the arrival of spring. Last week, when 85-degree weather rolled into town, it was understandable that so many spent every moment of the afternoon soaking up the sun. However, a handful of children decided to take a break from...

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