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Wellesley Symphony to perform Russian music

Wellesley Symphony to perform Russian music

Rimsky-Korsakov’s immortal “Scheherazade” and Tchaikovsky’s glorious “Rococo Variations for Cello and Orchestra,” with Boston Symphony Orchestra cellist Owen Young, headline the Wellesley Symphony Orchestra’s program on Sunday, November 19. Celebrating the Wonderful World of Wellesley and led by Maestro Max Hobart, the 3 p.m. concert is preceded at 2:15 by a talk by Leslie Holmes. The...

No worries for fix-it man Tselikis

No worries for fix-it man Tselikis

By Linda Thomas Hometown Weekly Correspondent Imagine the smell of a city during wartime. Now imagine you’re barely 20 at the onset of America’s participation in World War II, and find yourself on the other side of the world in a city that doesn’t look like home, smell like home, or taste like home. This was Aristides “Ernie” Tselikis...

Hurwitz works for Girl Scout Gold

Hurwitz works for Girl Scout Gold

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter While we all love the taste of Thin Mints and Caramel deLites, there’s much more to Girl Scouts than the cookies. For the Girl Scouts who remain dedicated to the program, they learn courage, confidence, and character to benefit our world and those in it. As she goes for...

Sweet Wednesday to perform in Walpole

Sweet Wednesday to perform in Walpole

Contemporary folk duo Sweet Wednesday will perform at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 16, in the Community Room of the Walpole Public Library. Originally from Boston, Dave Falk and Lisa Housman have toured the country for the past ten years, both as an acoustic duo and with their band. The concert is free, thanks to...

Potter’s Place hosting Alzheimer’s benefit

Potter’s Place hosting Alzheimer’s benefit

Hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind pottery pieces created by more than 15 member potters of Potters Place in Walpole will be offered for sale during the cooperative’s Annual Holiday Show & Sale. A special selection of pieces was specifically created to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association. The Show & Sale will take place at Potters Place, 127B Old West Street...

Ground broken on new senior center

Ground broken on new senior center

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By Amelia Tarallo Hometown Weekly Correspondent Though construction has just started, there is already much excitement over Walpole’s senior center. Members of the community gathered on Monday, October 30 to break ground on the new South Street facility, which will eventually replace the current center on School Street. The new senior center will consist of...

Dover Library and the great pumpkin

Dover Library and the great pumpkin

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter Many children would say the candy and costumes are the absolute best part of Halloween. However, while overflowing buckets of sweets are undeniably awesome and dressing up is certainly enjoyable, the Halloween season doesn’t quite feel right until you’ve decorated or carved a pumpkin. Making the spooky season feel...

The making of Ursula

The making of Ursula

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Over 100 Dover-Sherborn middle school students are participating in the upcoming production of “The Little Mermaid,” and 70 of those cast members will require a change of costume during the show. The elaborate and creative costume plan is managed by Carmel Bergeron, a mathematics teacher at the middle school, and Laura Villalobos, a...

Dover author blends humor and technology

Dover author blends humor and technology

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter When was the last time you read a novel about technology that was funny and engaging, appropriate for the whole family, and written by a local author? Perhaps never, or at least not for a very long time. If you’re in need of a new read, Prateek Goorha’s “Henry...

Memorial School holds annual Halloween parade

Memorial School holds annual Halloween parade

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter Parents waited outside the doors of Medfield’s Memorial School. Every once in a while, a parent with a grocery bag in hand approached the door, rang the bell, and entered. Moments later, they came back outside without their bag to wait with the other parents. One girl, too young...

Medfield chows down to support COA

Medfield chows down to support COA

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter Nine years ago, Tony Centore and his fellow Council on Aging (COA) member, Tom Sweeney, sat in the newly constructed Medfield COA on Ice Hill Road. They chatted about the space, noting the beauty of the high ceilings, welcoming paint color, and abundance of natural light. It wasn’t long...

Tax Work-off Program accepting applications

The ongoing Tax Work-off Program administered by the Council on Aging has an exciting new change. At last spring’s town meeting the town voted to increase the benefit for Tax Work-off volunteers. The program allows persons 60 and over, who have lived in Medfield for a minimum of three years, who own a home with...

Pre-School Palooza delivers pre-Halloween treats

Pre-School Palooza delivers pre-Halloween treats

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter The preschoolers could hardly contain their excitement. Their costumes were ready and the promise of buckets and bags full of candy was just a day away. Halloween was on its way, but the children couldn’t wait. The Needham Free Public Library’s librarians knew just how to help. To give the...

Chamber concert impresses music community

Chamber concert impresses music community

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter After hours and hours of instruction and rehearsal, Needham High School singers and instrumentalists performed for family and friends at their chamber concert. With a theme of “Music of the Spheres,” concertgoers were treated with a selection of songs and numbers performed by the chamber strings and chorus groups. “All...

Needham Baha’is celebrate founder’s birth

Needham Baha’is celebrate founder’s birth

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On Sunday, October 22, the Baha'i Community of Needham joined over 6 million other Baha'is across the planet to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'i Faith. About eighty Baha'is and guests gathered at MIT's beautiful facility in Dedham, the Endicott House, for a program of...

Library holds women’s vets panel discussion

Library holds women’s vets panel discussion

By Lisa Moore Hometown Weekly Correspondent The role of women in the military has evolved over the generations. In 1782 Deborah Sampson, one of a small number of women who disguised themselves as men in order to join the American Revolutionary War, served as a man for 17 months, fought in combat and was wounded. Shot in...

Davis Museum commemorates religious history

Davis Museum commemorates religious history

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter Five hundred years ago, on October 31, 1517, Martin Luther distributed the “Disputation on the Power of Indulgences.” The Augustinian monk’s “95 Theses” challenged the Pope’s power and triggered the Reformation of the Christian church. For the remarkable anniversary of Luther’s influence, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College is presenting...

WPS hurricane relief for Houston

WPS hurricane relief for Houston

By Rama K. Ramaswamy Hardy, Hunnewell, WHS, and PAWS Preschool (Wellesley Public Schools) recently unified around a humanitarian cause: hurricane relief for Houston. The primary organizers were Shaunna Wuczynski, Nicole Meyers and Lauren Lin. According to Lin, they "collected eight full boxes of backpacks, notebooks, pens, pencils, etc." When asked about the inspiration for this effort, Wuczynski explained, “My...

‘Sweeney Todd’ coming to WHS

‘Sweeney Todd’ coming to WHS

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That infamous demon barber, Sweeney Todd, will soon be wreaking his havoc on Rice Street. With book by Hugh Wheeler and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, this dark and witty tale is rife with love, murder and revenge. Awarded eight Tony Awards for its Broadway premiere, including Best Musical, “Sweeney Todd”...

A Grimm fairytale, an opera twist

A Grimm fairytale, an opera twist

By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter “Hansel and Gretel” is one of the most beloved and frightening tales from the Brothers Grimm. While many have heard the tale before, certainly not has many have seen the opera adaptation by German composer Engelbert Humperdinck. That’s where Needham’s Longwood Opera comes in. Since 1986, the Longwood Opera has been providing Needham...

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