Young Wellesley sisters give back
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Planning for Walpole Day underway
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By Katrina Margolis
Hometown Weekly Reporter
The people of Walpole are incredibly supportive of their community. Always at the ready to give back and help each other, they achieve great things all throughout the year due to the generosity and spirit of their neighbors. Once a year, the town takes a day to celebrate not...
Quilt Guild show outdoes itself
By Katrina Margolis
Hometown Weekly Reporter
The Rhododendron Needlers Quilt Guild has been going strong for 27 years. A non-profit organization aiming to preserve to culture and history of quilting, as well as an understanding of the art of quilting, members come from 37 towns in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
The group meets once a month at...
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Hootstein is Outstanding Student of the Year
The Walpole Recreation Department is pleased to announce that department team member Sara Hootstein has received the 2017 Massachusetts Recreation and Parks Association annual Outstanding Student of the Year Award. The Award was given at the MRPA annual conference in Worcester in March, during which hundreds of park and recreation professionals gather for networking activities,...
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RB Foundation supports two local heroes
Phillip Lippolis is a courageous ten year old boy battling leukemia for the second time. His family has spent a tremendous amount of time at Boston Children’s Hospital. Phillip received a bone marrow transplant and is currently unable to leave his house in Walpole. His wonderful teachers go to his home to tutor him. The...
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Walpole’s Joe Major honored by 4-H
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Joseph F. Major, a longtime Walpole resident, has been selected as the Northeast Region’s Lifetime 4-H Volunteer of the Year by the National 4-H program and as such will be considered to become the National Lifetime 4-H Volunteer of the year.
Present and past 4-H members and their families gathered at Ward’s Berry...
Sled dogs mush to Sherborn
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By Lisa Moore
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
Ariana Delaney and Abby Violin were among the few people happy to see snow last week, hopeful the white stuff would fall in time for the dog sledding presentation they were hosting, one of the many children’s activities offered by the Friends of Sherborn Library. Mother Nature supplied the...
DS 4th grade girls win championship
The Dover-Sherborn 4th grade girls “Athenas” squad defeated Milton by a score of 36-18 on Saturday, March 11, to win the Metrowest Girls Grade 4 Division 3 Championship.
The “Athenas” squad was compromised of twelve players, all new to Metrowest travel basketball and most new to the game of basketball. The squad went 8-4 in the...
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Sherborn Library construction underway
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Construction is underway on the Sherborn Library’s exciting renovation and expansion project. Just a few short weeks after the library’s groundbreaking ceremony, evidence of work is already apparent on the site. The general contractor for the project, Five Star Building Corp., has fenced the work area, placed a construction trailer on the site,...
Matter of Balance keeps things level
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By Katrina Margolis
Hometown Weekly Reporter
People under a certain age take everyday activities and actions for granted. Jogging, climbing stairs, and even showering are all things that most people don’t actively think about. That is, until they aren’t the simple activities that we once thought them to be. Many of these activities can become...
Medfield DI teams advance to States
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Congratulations to teams from Wheelock, Dale, Blake and MHS for the excellent showing at the regional Destination Imagination (DI) Tournament held on March 18 at Stoughton High School. In a field of 74 teams including Millis, Franklin and other area towns, four Medfield teams earned top scores and will advance to the DI...
Breezy March brings Wind Wonders to Library
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By Katrina Margolis
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Once a month, the Needham Public Library hosts an event for children six and up. This month, Diane Shetler hosted Wind Wonders. “We do something for this age group once a month, and it’s usually different theme. The theme changes but you know, March and wind!” she explained. A...
Zullo lets kids explore artistically
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By Katrina Margolis
Hometown Weekly Reporter
The Zullo Art Gallery offers a variety of art courses for young art enthusiasts. Starting in February, students in grades one to three participated in a Drawing/Mixed Media course taught by Kurt Johnson. Johnson is a professional artist and storyteller. He also currently teaches at the Medfield After School...
STEM Expo set for April 8
The Wellesley STEM Expo will be taking place on April 8 at Wellesley High School, and promises to bring science, technology, engineering and math to life.
Among the exhibits and their presenters these year are:
Robot Zoo
Take Control of NASA’s Valkyrie Humanoid Robot (UMass Lowell); Robots that Walk and Run (Boston Dynamics); Tiny Robots, Squishy Robots, and...
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Wellesley Library taps into fun
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By Katrina Margolis
Hometown Weekly Reporter
In the area surrounding Wellesley there are numerous farms, including those in Weston, Medfield, and Dover. In the winter months, however, conventional farming is not possible in New England, and the farms must move to other activities to keep busy and to profit. Land’s Sake Farm in Weston adds...
Wellesley Theatre Project presents ‘Spring Awakening’
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Wellesley Theatre Project (WTP) will present the Tony Award-winning rock musical “Spring Awakening” on Friday, March 24; Saturday, March 25; Sunday, March 26; Saturday, April 1; and Sunday, April 2. WTP will mount this fully-staged work in a “blackbox theater” setting within a temporarily transformed Wellesley Community Center, located at 219 Washington Street,...
‘Art in Nature’ coming to Broadmoor
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From April 2 through April 29, the Wellesley Society of Artists will hold an art exhibit entitled “Art in Nature” at the Mass Audubon’s Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary (280 Eliot Street, Rt. 16, Natick). The exhibit is free and open to the public (Tue-Fri, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sat-Sun, 10:00 a.m. to...
Sheffield Chamber Players wow in Wellesley
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The Sheffield Chamber Players (SCP) “embody the art of Chamber music,” said one attendee at the Martin residence.
Over thirty people gathered in residence of Jennifer and Ansley Martins to garner a listen. The Martins’ new guests and returning fans of SCP lingered long after the finale to personally congratulate the Players’ inspired rendering...
Fun Run/Fun Fair coming in April
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The Wellesley Community Children’s Center’s 37th annual Fun Run/Fun Fair will take place on Saturday, April 1, from 8:30-12:00 p.m. in the Dorothy Towne Field House of Wellesley College’s Keohane Sports Center. There will be races for children 3-12 years old from 9 a.m. to noon. Race entry fee is $7, $3 for...
Olin’s living watercolors
