By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Over the summer, 10-year-old Emma Perkin was hard at work. The voracious reader spent 9,590 minutes (which translates to 160 hours and 38 minutes) reading, tracking all of her time at the library and online.
The Needham Free Public Library recognized her dedication to reading and entered Emma into the...
By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
A group of 45 women living in Westwood greet the community with a mission of enriching the town through the Westwood Young Women’s Club (WYWC). Through fundraising events, the WYWC turns all of its profits back to the community in the form of high school scholarships, donations to the...
By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Making fresh pasta and pasta sauce may seem like a daunting task, but Meg Tallon at Powisset Farm worked alongside members of the Dover and Westwood Councils on Aging to prove that a homemade Italian meal is actually quite simple.
With recipes for a garlicky kale salad, fresh pasta, a...
[caption id="attachment_23471" align="alignright" width="300"] Westwood freshmen help seniors [/caption]A group of Westwood High School freshmen volunteers spent the afternoon of Friday, November 17, raking four elder seniors' homes. Coordinated by high school teacher Eavan Monahan (with special help from Chris Casey), four senior...
Wellesley Theatre Project (WTP) will present, "A Christmas Carol" Friday, December 8 at 7 p.m., Saturday, December 9 and 16 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., and Sunday, December 10 and 17 at 2 p.m. All performances will take place at the WTP Studios at The Wellesley Community Center, located at 219 Washington...
By Rama K. Ramaswamy
Just before Thanksgiving, WHS students in Amie Larson's Ceramics Intensive course successfully proved that greatness is not what you have, but what you give.
The students’ annual Empty Bowls event had sold out well before the gathering. Students Julian von Hofe, Cort Bruer, Caroline McMahan, Lindsay Carroll, Emily Conners, Maddie Noble,...
The Westwood Garden Club recently invited Ron White from Silver and Sage Florist Shop Norwood to demonstrate how to make a holiday arrangement. Ron came with buckets of beautiful fall flowers and prepared cornucopias. He demonstrated how to make three different designs while members followed their...
Westwood residents Roger Christian, Brian Davie, Charlie Duffy, Brian Gorman, and Joe Gearon, all members of Boston Saengerfest Men’s Chorus, will be performing in the Christmas concert, “Choose Something like a Star.” They will be joined by the boys of St. Paul’s Choir School, the only Catholic boys’ choir school in the United...
Spring 2018 registration is open for Wellesley Youth Lacrosse Club at www.wellesleylacrosse.org until January 5. WYLC offers programs for boys and girls in first through eighth grade. Beginners are welcome in all grades. Refer to the website for program information....
By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
The 2017 fall athletic season was one filled with incredible success for Wellesley High School’s varsity boys soccer team. A 13-2-1 record that included a win over rival Framingham for the first time in seven years resulted in a No. 2 seeding in the South Sectionals. The Raiders...
By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
At halftime of Walpole High football’s 42-21 win over Weymouth on Thanksgiving, the Bay State Conference recognized former Walpole field hockey, basketball, and lacrosse star Melanie Weber with the Doug Flutie Award.
The Flutie Award is the top honor presented by the Bay State Conference each year for...
By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
For over 50 years, Walpole’s Old Post Road School has invited the community to Gingerbread Festival. Unlike the name suggests, it’s not a celebration of spicy cookies. Instead, it’s an annual kick-start of the holiday season with activities for both children and parents to enjoy.
Decorated with wintry greens, symmetrical...
By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Since it opened in 1925, Bird Park has secured a spot in the hearts of those who grew up and lived in and around Walpole.
There are many who still remember the swimming pool that opened for the hot summers before it was transformed into one of the ponds that...
Walpole Junior Girl Scout Troop 88072 recently gave back to a community. On Saturday December 2, nine scouts and three leaders decorated brown lunch bags and soup cup lids, wrapped pastries, packed bagels, filled soup cups and then packed sandwiches, snacks, bagels and pastries into individual lunches.
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A quilt of valor was made in honor of all our veterans from the Walpole High School class of 1962 that served in the armed services during the Vietnam War era. We recently celebrated our 55th class reunion. The veterans that were in attendance proudly held up the quilt that was made under the watchful...
Walpole's Justin Doo, a graduate of Xaverian Brothers High School, has been awarded the Corey C. Griffin Humanitarian Award by Boston Children's Hospital. Doo's decade-long mission to drive awareness and funds to the cause of moyamoya disease was the catalyst for his prestigious award.
Last year's winner of the Humanitarian Award was Peter Frates, co-founder of...
Recently the Aaron Guild Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) honored four High School seniors from the area who were chosen as Good Citizens by their classmates and teachers.
The Good Citizen Award night took place at the George H. Morse Historic House on Washington Street in Norwood. Each...
The Walpole Historical Society has announced the release of "Civil War Soldiers Walpole, Massachusetts."
The book will contain 503 pages of biographies of over 300 local soldiers, maps, photographs, regimental histories, and battle histories. The 35 page index includes soldiers names, over 110 entries of other Massachusetts towns connected to Walpole,
17 other states and Canada.
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The children's, adult, and hand bells choirs of the Matthew 13 Collaborative Music Ministry are set to brighten holiday spirits with a performance this weekend. The event, "Advent with Mary,” will be this Sunday, December 10, at 1 p.m., at Blessed Sacrament Church. All are invited....
The Needham Knights of Columbus raised nearly $2000 for the Fisher House in West Roxbury and the K of C scholarship fund at its annual trivia contest fundraiser with celebrity emcee Mike Riley of WBZ-FM 98.5 The Sports Hub....
