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Needham celebrates festival of colors
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
At the beginning of March, many Indian communities celebrated Holi, the festival of colors. Celebrated as a way to welcome the victory of good over evil and the arrival of spring, Needham hosted Holi at the local VFW on March 31.
Originally celebrated as an ancient Hindu festival, Holi is...
Springtime blooms at Needham Library gallery
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
If you had the opportunity to visit the Needham Free Public Library during the month of March, you probably noticed that spring arrived early at the Friends Gallery. Although the several nor'easters ensured that it still looked like winter outdoors, Kira Seamon's bright and colorful photography welcomed the new season inside.
Using...
Needham debaters celebrate state success
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The Needham Speech and Debate celebrated the “debate” part of its name by capturing its second successive novice Lincoln-Douglas championship at Chelmsford High School.
Freshman Sasha Reiser defeated Brookline High School in the finals, and was also third place speaker overall. Sophomore Zachary Lu, last year’s novice champion, reached quarterfinals and was second...
Bruckner, Muthukaruppan showing at Open Studios
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During Needham Open Studios on the weekend of May 5 and 6, painters Eddie Bruckner and Bala Muthukaruppan will show and sell their work at Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage on 1 Chapel Street.
“Exhibiting at local businesses that open their doors to artists emphasizes the great town that Needham is,” says Bruckner, whose...
High expectations for McEvoy, Child, Rocket lax
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
A 16-3 regular season and a Bay State Conference crown earned the Needham High School boys lacrosse team the No. 2 overall seed in Division I South last spring. However, the Rockets saw their season come to a tough end in the form of a 14-7 loss to...
Artwork blooms inside Medfield Library
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
“A special treat on a cold Saturday,” one library-goer writes in the guest book at the Medfield Public Library’s Art ‘N Bloom. “It’s dreary out, but beautiful inside.”
From Thursday, March 22, to Sunday, March 25, the library housed 19 pieces of art from Medfield High School students and a...
Miss Amazing celebrates abilities and inclusiveness
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
A handful of people gasped as the auditorium went dark. It was that pitch black - can’t-see-your-hand-in-front-of-your-face dark. But after a moment, the stage lights came on and illuminated the hot pink banners and string lights.
The bright lights danced off of the pink and silver balloons on stage...
Lions prepare for annual gala
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The Medfield Lions Club, with support from the Medfield Neighbor Brigade, will host its 5th annual spring gala on Saturday, May 5, from 7:30 – 10 p.m. at the Zullo Gallery on Main Street. All proceeds from this event are distributed by the Lions to local families in temporary crisis, identified by the...
Belle of the Ball drive successful
With prom season just around the corner, Medfield High School freshman Gabby Christo has partnered up with Belle of the Ball on a collection drive. Belle of the Ball is an organization that cleans and distributes prom dresses and accessories to girls in need.
Gabby set up collection boxes at the high school and her home,...
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McCarthy, Lady-Warriors start hot
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
It was an ideal start to the 2018 campaign for the Medfield High School girls lacrosse team on Monday night.
Behind a five-goal effort by senior captain and Harvard-bound star Maggie McCarthy, as well as a hat trick by junior Erin Seibel, the Lady-Warriors earned a convincing 12-5 victory...
Pine Hill students sing for seniors
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Sherborn’s Pine Hill School has many traditions, but there is one that the town’s seniors particularly enjoy: the annual senior trip to the school.
For the past seven years, Pine Hill has invited members of the community to visit their school for a catered lunch and a chorus concert from...
Library creates video games from Scratch
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This past week, kids were encouraged to take their gaming skills to a whole new level by putting down the controllers and picking up the video game creation software, Scratch.
At the Dover Town Library’s Create your own Video Game workshop, kids were given the opportunity to use Scratch, an MIT-developed computer program designed...
‘Mind Games’ to address relationship abuse
“Mind Games,” a play and audience discussion about relationship abuse, is coming to Sherborn’s Community Center on Thursday, April 12, at 7 p.m. This free event is hosted by Every Great Reason Foundation, a Sherborn family’s non-profit.
As parents, we want our kids to make good decisions and to be safe, so we talk to them...
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Simms, DS girls gear up
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
The 2017 season ended with about as tough of a loss as they come for the Dover-Sherborn Regional High School girls varsity lacrosse team, as the No. 4 -seeded Raiders fell, 11-10, in double-overtime to arch rival and No. 5 Medfield in the Division II East quarterfinals.
This...
Westwood 4th graders are hoops champs
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This year the 4th grade Westwood (black) team has won the Metrowest Division 3 championship.
The team finished with a 8-4 record in the regular season, earning them a two seed in the Metrowest playoffs. “We were undefeated this year when we had our full complement of players. But in games when we didn’t,...
Langan, Xaverian baseball ready up
By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Any given season, expectations surrounding Xaverian baseball are extremely high. In 2018, however, the Hawks will look to qualify for the Super Eight for the third straight season and take care of some unfinished business after rival BC High eliminated them in the third-round last June.
Leading the Hawks into...
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Intensive art students exhibiting in town
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The Clever Hand Gallery will showcase work by students from two intensive art classes at Wellesley High School. This is the eighth year of collaboration between the local artisans’ cooperative and the talented students.
Students in Shayla Vines’ Intensive Metals class studied the work of professional artists working as jewelers, metalsmiths and sculptors, and...
Preschool at Wellesley Schools holding auction
By Rama K. Ramaswamy
This year's "Keys to the Future" spring auction for Preschool at Wellesley Schools (P.A.W.S) PTO will be an evening of "live bidding, good friends, and music.” The PTO’s largest fundraising event of the year is set for April 7 at a new location in Natick Center. Attendees will enjoy a night out...
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The time is now for Chicoski, Lady-Raiders
