Dover Sherborn Youth Basketball notched an impressive victory over the weekend, with its 5th grade girls team winning the Metrowest Division 5 Championship - and as a seven-seed!
...DS 5th graders are champions
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Library Friends announce Tile Painting FUNdraiser
The Friends of the Dover Library have announced the return of their popular Tile Painting FUNdraiser.
Everyone from very young children, to teens and adults will have an opportunity to design and paint tiles that will be permanently displayed inside the library. The tiles will not only add beauty to...
New Life 5K Trail Run, 5/7
New Life is excited to host its 5th annual Trail Run on Saturday, May 7, on the Medfield State Hospital grounds (at Hospital Rd. & Service Dr., Medfield). The route winds through the beautiful Charles River Reservation, and the event is open to runners, walkers and everyone in between.
To...
‘Sunflowers for Ukraine’
Work created by students in the Westwood Council on Aging’s “Sunflowers for Ukraine” multi-class art project.
Encounters with the Arts returns to WHS
Photos from past Encounters with the Arts.
Westwood High School is opening its doors to art lovers on Thursday, March 24, as the Art Department presents the 26th annual “Encounters with the Arts” program. The program showcases high school students as they present both live performances, as well as artwork...
St. Margaret Mary, girls CYO champs
On Saturday, March 19, the high school girls CYO basketball team of St. Margaret Mary Parish took the CYO EMASS Championship, beating St. Agatha of Milton by a score of 46-25.
...R.A.Y. Award nominees sought
2021's honorees: Katie Mullin, Caroline James, Vivienne Woodard, Ryan Kissell, Jack Foscaldo
The Westwood Rotary and Westwood Youth & Family Services Department (WY&FS) are seeking the public’s help to identify young people in our community that have demonstrated a commitment to helping others. We would like to celebrate these individuals...
Sisters United Against Cancer plan Wellness Fair
Sisters United Against Cancer is excited to announce a Wellness Fair on May 21 at the Knights of Columbus in Walpole. The Sisters are a nonprofit organization formed March 2021 by identical twin sisters who battled breast cancer. The two received so much love and support from family, friends, and co-workers that they...
Walpole’s Scales guiding BC defense
Walpole native Sydney Scales (45) defends against North Carolina’s Jamie Ortega during BC women’s lacrosse’s 16-15 defeat to the Tar Heels on Sunday in Chestnut Hill. Photos by Mike Flanagan
By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly
At Walpole High...
Health Department readies vaccine clinics
The Walpole Health Department has announced Tuesday and Thursday COVID vaccination clinics to be held in the Old Town Hall (former police station) on 980 Main Street.
Moderna vaccines (for individuals 18 and older) will be available in first, second and booster doses. Pfizer vaccines (for individuals 12 and older)...
NHS track athletes perform at Nationals
Needham sent two individual athletes and one relay team to National Track and Field Indoor meets this past weekend.
Senior captain Kyler McNatt earned All American Honors by placing 5th and running a 25 second PR of 14:45.04 in the Boys Championship 5K. He competed at the New Balance Indoor...
NHS ‘Newsies’ delights audiences
By Beatrice Beutel
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
The overture filled the theater with recognizable musical motifs as the curtain opened to reveal a minimalist scaffold set with a projection newspaper background. Needham High School’s production of “Newsies” fulfilled all of one’s expectations for this timeless classic, while also...
NAA to host painter Sam Vokey
On Tuesday, April 5, at 7:00 p.m., for this year’s joint virtual demonstration, the Needham Art Association and the Wellesley Society of Artists are pleased to welcome award-winning oil painter Sam Vokey. Any painting is only as strong as the underlying scaffold of the geometric design. Sam will explore key elements of design...
Four Needham artists in NEWS show
The New England Watercolor Society’s (NEWS) upcoming exhibition by its Associate Members will be conspicuously represented by the Needham Art Association, as four of its members have had their paintings accepted and will be on display during the months of March and April. The four paintings are “Ski New England” by Victoria Garbe,...
Natasha Huss plays Carnegie Hall
The same weekend in January that Boston tied its record for biggest single-day snowfall, Natasha Huss, a freshman at Medfield High School, made her way to NYC in strong wind and frigid air. At Carnegie Hall, she performed Prelude in C sharp Minor Ops. 3 No. 2 by Rachmaninoff on grand piano in...
Zullo hosting virtual talk with glassblower
As a trauma psychologist supporting survivors of some of the world’s worst tragedies for 25 years, Kevin Becker tapped into glassblowing a decade ago as a creative escape from his counseling work.
At 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 31, via Zoom, attendees of Becker’s “Meet the Artist” talk hosted by...
6th grade Medfielders are champs
Back Row (left to right): Sam Nolan, David Arnold, Kevin Sabourin, Owen Goodband, Cam Burman, Steve Rahley. Front Row (left to right): Will Keaveney, Will Baker, Cooper Gage. Not in Photo: John Barker.
The Medfield 6th grade boys team have recently been crowned Metrowest Division Champions...
Medfield 4th graders are champions
Coaches: Sara Sokolowski, Joe Bachand, Justin Kittredge. Players, back row left to right: Josie Frascella, Caleigh Kittredge, Brooke Bean, Jordan Bachand, Sage Sokolowski. bottom row: Lucy Buldoc, Jordan Heavey, Camryn Hennessy, Averi Urquhart, Josie Henebry. (Lucy Biggar missing in photo).
A team of Medfield fourth-graders has something to celebrate this...
Derevyanko, Zullo Gallery hosting Ukraine benefit
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia to a Ukrainian father and Russian mother, award-winning jazz saxophonist and Medfield resident Anton Derevyanko was determined to find ways to support loved ones affected by the war in Ukraine.
Tapping into his talents and jazz network, Derevyanko has organized two back-to-back, 75-minute live benefit...
Troop 89 donates to Medfield Animal Shelter
Recently, Troop 89 Senior Patrol Leader Kenny Manning met with a representative of the Medfield Animal Shelter to deliver a donation from the funds raised during the troop's 26th annual Christmas tree pick-up fundraiser.
"We are proud of our tradition of helping others and supporting our community," said Troop 89...
