Photo courtesy of Paul Clerici
The Friends of the Walpole Public Library are excited to be able to resume live events at the library, although with masking and distancing protocols, and still with contingency plans, due to the continuing pandemic.
The Friends' first...
The Walpole Council on Aging has partnered with Fox Tours to present its first trip destination of the season to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, on Tuesday, April 5.
Tourers will depart from the South Street Center, 60 South Street, Walpole, at 8:15...
Needham High School was represented well at the Massachusetts Indoor Track and Field Meet of Champions. Two individual athletes and two relay teams competed on February 26 at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Roxbury.
The Needham Community Council had some decisions to make about the English Language Learning program at the onset of the pandemic two years ago. For health and safety reasons, many of the existing tutor pairs did move to online, virtual learning, but many others were forced to take a pause. Today, however, the...
The Needham Exchange Club has recognized Steven Qie from Needham High School as its Youth of the Month. Steven is an outstanding student and has also been involved in broad-based community service that has won him a national President’s Volunteer Service Award in each of the last three years. He also earned an...
"When We Are Silent", a new solo exhibition by artist Ruth K. Henry, is on display March 7-26 at Gorse Mill Studios, 31 Thorpe Road, Needham. A gallery opening reception will be held this Saturday, March 12, from 6-9 p.m.; all visitors are welcomed, and there is plenty of free parking available.
Seamus Fox, an 18-year-old singer songwriter from Needham, is a semifinalist in the prestigious 2021 International Songwriting Competition (ISC). Seamus wrote and recorded “Road Of Life”, his first original track, which released on all streaming platforms last November. It has been streamed on Spotify more than 13,000 times in the past few months.
Hunter’s Run Foundation is excited to be holding its 7th Annual 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run on April 3 at Kingsbury Club Medfield.
Hunter is a 14-year-old two-time double lung transplant recipient. Hunter was born with a rare lung disease, and his parents were told...
On Saturday, February 19, five Medfield High School freshmen helped staff at the new Medfield Food Cupboard prepare a large food distribution in Medfield and surrounding communities.
...Of Medfield, and formerly of Dover, Needham and Westwood, died Tuesday, February 23, 2022 having lived a full life as a husband, father, and mentor. He is survived by his wife Nancy Fischer Mackay. He was preceded in death by his first wife Alice Guggenheimer Mackay.
Born in in Milton,...
The Westwood Artists have announced they are hosting a show at the main branch of the Westwood Public Library through the month of March. “It’s been two years since our last library exhibit,” says Karen Flowers Cagan. “It is so exciting to be able to host this exhibit once again!”
By Elizabeth Connolly
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
Audiences of Walpole Childrens Theater’s (WCT) performance of "Wizard’s Crystal" were in for a real treat last weekend: the return of live theater.
Aspiring actors, devoted volunteers and the community...
Photo by John Terry. Shown with Ms Patel Are Club Members Joe Burns (on her right) and Jim Reulbach, President Elect.
Nikita Patel was honored as an Exchange Club Youth of the Month on February 17. She is an excellent student at Needham High and was recently...
Beth Shalom Garden Club will soon be presenting its 14th Needham’s Art in Bloom, virtually.
Beth Shalom Garden Club and participants from Needham Garden Club and Kalmia Garden Club will interpret artwork by Needham High School students with flower arrangements.
The free virtual presentation will be available...
The next talk in the virtual Zullo Gallery “Meet the Artist” series is at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 6, via Zoom, featuring internationally renowned jazz saxophonist and composer Jerry Bergonzi, and acclaimed jazz pianist/vocalist Geraldine “Jeri” DiMarco Bergonzi.
The Bergonzi husband-wife team has always had music as a shared...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
The saviors of people who hate shoveling and the enemies of kids hoping for snow days, snowplow drivers operate in a unique space — their businesses depend on storms that may or may not happen, with each winter season being different. Looking to gain insight...
The Dover Land Conservation Trust (DLCT) is working to protect 8.5 acres of beautiful woodlands on Pine Street from development. Located on one of the oldest scenic roads in Dover, the land has been owned by the Dover Church since 1875 and was used historically as a pastor’s wood lot and for occasional...
Eileen Chi, a student at Milton Academy, will compete on Team Excel Juvenile, a synchronized skating team representing The Skating Club of Boston, at the U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships from March 3-6 in Colorado Springs, CO. Team Excel’s Juvenile Team was one of six Juvenile teams to qualify for...
Warner Emanuel Skomars, 85, of Charlotte, NC passed away on February 10, 2022. He was born in St. Luke’s Hospital of Duluth Minnesota, on February 24, 1936. Warner graduated from Duluth East High School in 1954 and the University of Minnesota-Duluth with a Bachelor of Science Degree on 9 June 1961. He proudly...
Susanne Cawley brought the Hometown Weekly to Vero Beach, Florida, ‘My second favorite place to be besides Walpole, Mass!’
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