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Medfield girls basketball player named TVL MVP

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Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff

Medfield High sophomore Maggie McCarthy was chosen as the Tri-Valley League’s Most Valuable Player in a vote by league coaches over the weekend, head coach Mark Nickerson announced on Twitter on Monday.

McCarthy has been the team’s leading scorer this season and helped the Warriors...

Medfield Youth Lacrosse holding spring fundraiser

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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff Medfield Youth Lacrosse will be holding a fundraiser on Saturday, April 2 at the Medfield American Legion, 110 Peter Kristof Way, at 8 p.m. Tickets for the fun adult’s night out will go on sale this month on the league’s website, www.medfieldyouthlacrosse.com. The organizing committee is looking for corporate...

Miss Amazing to return to Medfield next week

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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff The local organizers of the Miss Amazing Celebration have announced that the third annual state pageant will be held at Medfield High on Saturday, February 27 at 6 p.m. Miss Amazing was brought to Massachusetts three years ago by Medfield High student Andrea Nevins to give girls and women...

Medfield author has story included in ‘Ploughshares’

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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff Medfield resident Laurie Baker has a short story in the winter 2015-16 edition of the award-winning literary journal, “Ploughshares,” based at Emerson College. Baker had her story, “Here I Am, Laughing With Boers,” published in the journal, which comes out three times per year. “Here I Am, Laughing With...

Theatre Society to present ‘Cinderella’ at Medfield High

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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff The Medfield High Theatre Society has announced that its next production will be Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella,” which will be presented on Friday, March 11 and Saturday, March 12 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, March 13 at 2 p.m. A notice from the Theatre Society read, “Come see this...

New exhibit opens at Zullo Gallery in Medfield

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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff

A new exhibit has opened at the Zullo Gallery. “sei donne artisi,” which means six women artists in Italian, features work from six local artists, including Nancy Deveno of Needham and Kristin Stashenko and Susan Termyn of Medfield.

The work will be...

This Old Town: Medfield under attack

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By Richard DeSorgher Hometown Weekly Correspondent

This week, 340 years ago, Medfield was trying to recover from the worst disaster ever to hit the town. While Hawaii will note Pearl Harbor and New York City will always remember 9/11, Medfield will never forget the events of February 21, 1676.

Some...

Students provided dinner to Medfield Housing Authority

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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff During the holiday season, eighth grade students from Blake Middle School provided a turkey pot pie dinner and entertainment for residents of Tilden Village. The Medfield Housing Authority expressed its thanks to the 25 students who volunteered to add some holiday cheer to the residents in the Tilden Village...

Needham students pay visit to the State House

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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff Fifth grade students at Newman Elementary School in Needham recently took a trip to Boston to visit with State Representative Denise Garlick and to take a tour of her office in the State House. The students have been studying government and got a closer look at how the state...

Needham track teams win Div. 2 indoor titles

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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff

Last Wednesday at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletics Center in Boston, the Needham track program showed its strength in depth by winning both the boys’ and girls’ Div. 2 state indoor titles, in both cases edging Bay State Conference rival Wellesley.

The girls won...

Needham girls hockey wins Carey division title

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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff

The Needham High girls’ hockey team finished another perfect week with a 2-0 victory over Newton North on Saturday at the Fessenden Rink.

With the victory, Needham wrapped up an unbeaten league campaign (13-0-2) and clinched the Carey division title.

The Rockets are...

Needham wrestling sending five to states

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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff It was a successful weekend for the Needham High wrestling team, which competed in the Div. 1 Central tournament at Newton South on Saturday. Five wrestlers advanced to this weekend’s Div. 1 state tournament at Brockton High, including senior captain Lucas Goldman, who won the title at 160 pounds,...

Spirit of ’20s at Needham Historical Society Speakeasy

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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff

The Needham Historical Society brought back the sprit of the 1920s and the Prohibition era with its Speakeasy fundraiser, held on Feb. 6.

Residents joined in the fun by dressing the part and enjoying the table games, roulette and black jack, for a night...

Annual French Night returns to Needham High

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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff

The Needham High French Club is presenting its annual “La Soiree de la Francophone” (French Night) on Friday, Feb. 26 from 7-8:30 p.m. in the high school auditorium. The event is free and there will be free French cuisine and performances by Needham High...

Needham parents/teachers tip off for sixth straight year

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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff On Friday, March 4, parents and teachers from Hillside and Eliot Elementary Schools will take to the basketball court at Needham High for the sixth annual fundraiser game that benefits each school’s PTC. Doors will open for the game at 6:30 and the opening tip will be at 7...

‘Girls on the Run’ begins in March at Needham YMCA

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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff Beginning in March, the Charles River YMCA, 863 Great Plain Ave. in Needham, will be offering “Girls on the Run,” a program dedicated to raising self-esteem and confidence in girls in grades 3-5. The program will prepare the girls to run a 5K in June and no previous running...

Needham residents can apply for Babson scholarship

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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff

The Needham Board of Selectmen has announced that it is currently accepting applications for scholarships from Needham residents interested in attending Babson College in 2016-17.

Residents of all ages are eligible to apply for the scholarships, which are given from funds distributed by the school...

Walpole boys and girls basketball fall to Norwood

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By Douglas McCulloch Hometown Weekly Staff The Walpole boys and girls basketball teams faced off against Norwood last Thursday at Norwood High. The boys fell to Norwood 50-42, and the girls lost with a final score of 58-50. For the boys team, the game marked a deciding factor in which team would pick up the Herget...

Westwood hockey reaches playoffs for 34th straight year

[ccfic caption-text format="plaintext"]By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff It came down to the final few games of the season, but with a pair of wins at this weekend’s Farleigh Dickinson tournament on Martha’s Vineyard the Westwood High boys’ hockey team extended its state record streak of tournament appearances to 34 consecutive seasons. The Wolverines went into the tournament...

Science on display at Westwood school

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By Douglas McCulloch Hometown Weekly Staff Science was on display at the Deerfield School last Wednesday as the school hosted its annual science fair. Children from all levels of the school, from kindergarteners all the way up to fifth graders, showcased science experiments they had been working on in teams of two to four for...

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