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Model Airplane Club meeting July 28
Interested in model airplanes? The Millis Model Airplane Club (MMAC) will hold its annual fun fly at the Bill Martin Field in Medfield on Sunday, July 28, starting at 9 a.m. The field is located near the intersection of Hospital Rd and Rt 27, just South of the Charles River.
This event provides a chance...
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Medfielders meet baby animals at library
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By Amelia Tarallo
Hometown Weekly
Kids coming to the Medfield Library on June 18 were ecstatic to meet some new friends.
Downstairs, the community room was filled with a menagerie of different species of baby animals. There was plenty of joy and laughter with two different groups of kids coming into the room, each child...
Youth field hockey registration opens
Registration for Medfield field hockey teams is now open. Medfield will be fielding teams in the MetroWest League in grades 3/4; grades 5/6; and grades 7/8.
The registration window, however, is particularly tight; the deadline to sign up is Wednesday, July 24. The program needs to be able to inform the league if it will have...
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Caterpillar Club teaches kids about bugs
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Last Wednesday at 11 am, former preschool and kindergarten teacher Kathi Gariepy presented the Caterpillar Club, a weekly educational program designed for children to learn about the natural world around them. Taking place in Weezie’s Garden for Children, a space located within The Gardens at Elm Bank and...
A whale of a time in Sherborn
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By Amelia Tarallo
Hometown Weekly Staff
It's not every day that one can find a whale in Sherborn.
But on Thursday, June 27, parents and kids walked up the steps of the Sherborn Community Center to see Nile the whale and learn all about these giant...
Gilio, Legion outlast Westwood
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By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
After falling 10-0 to Medfield Post 110, whose roster is comprised mainly of Medfield High and Dover-Sherborn players, on Monday night, Westwood Legion Post 320 hosted Medfield on Thursday looking to bounce back and serve up some revenge to their rivals to the west.
Unfortunately for Westwood, whose...
VBS counselors complete service projects
Each year at St. Dunstan’s Vacation Bible School (VBS), many of the counselors and CITs stay after camp to do a service project. This year, they decided to do two projects so they could support two groups.
The group decided to support the Solar Mamas, which is a program run by Barefoot College. This program turns...
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NDA halts Westwood title hopes
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By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Following a dominant 19-1 regular season in which they were atop the state rankings (Globe, Herald, etc) for the majority of the year and earned themselves the top spot in the Division I South sectionals, Westwood High girls lacrosse entered the state tournament confident, and for good reason....
Westwood High completes J-Term’s second year
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
With the last week of school usually dedicated to looking out the window and longing for summer or complaining about the heat, Westwood High School has found a way to rejuvenate its students at the end of the school year: letting them choose what to learn about.
For the...
Westwood’s MacPherson sings at Gillette Stadium
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Westwood's Dana MacPherson recently performed the National Anthem at the New England Revolution home match against D.C. United on Saturday, May 25. Dana was selected along with members of her girl-group, Girls Nite Out, as one of three winners chosen by the New England Revolution to perform.
Girls Nite Out performed their own rendition...
Thurston musicians celebrate tradition of excellence
It was a record-setting year for the music program at Westwood’s Thurston Middle School. For over 20 years, the school’s band, chorus and orchestra have participated in the Great East Music Festival. This year, for the first time, each took home the festival’s highest award: a platinum medal for outstanding performance.
The Great East Music...
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Walpole tennis knocks off Duxbury
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
As the number six seed, Walpole’s tennis team was supposed to be handily beaten by the number two seeded Duxbury Dragons.
But, powered by the consistent dominance of first singles player Sid Vandrangi and a surprisingly strong effort from freshman Jake Lowenstein, the Rebels took out the Dragons...
Greater Walpole girls win championship
The Greater Walpole Girls U15 team, coached by Steve Hearon, Kevin Birch, and Steve Govoni, recently won their first Girls U15 Boston South Town Cup after defeating Canton by a score of 5-3. After losing, 6-5, to Canton earlier during the round robin play, the team was eager for the rematch. Greater Walpole jumped out...
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AnaLeeChic dresses kids for success
This year, Ariana Chariton received a Project LOVEly grant from nonprofit This Star Won't Go Out (TSWGO) to produce and donate a line of children's hospital gowns.
The grant precipitated Chariton's popup project, AnaLeeChic. Ariana has always loved kids, and when she entered college four years ago, being around so many hospitals in the Longwood...
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Wellesley’s Collomb wins boys tennis title
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By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Harry Collomb made history on Saturday as the freshman won the first-ever individual boys tennis state championship in Wellesley history by defeating Boston Latin’s Derek Shen 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, at St. John’s High School in Shrewsbury.
Collomb, who entered the South sectionals as the No. 4 seed, took...
Frank King gives novelty song lesson
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
On Thursday afternoon, Frank King, who holds a Masters in Broadcasting from Boston University and a BA from Princeton, gave the Tolles Parsons Center a musical presentation of novelty songs, specifically the novelty hits of the 1950s.
But while novelty songs get a bit of a bad...
Wellesley celebrates Eid with outdoor festival
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
On Saturday afternoon, June 8, on town hall green, a group of Wellesley residents held an outdoor festival to celebrate Eid, a Muslim holiday that celebrates the end of Ramadan. As Eid is the “festival of the breaking of the fast,” there was plenty of food, like brownies,...
Bates, Hardy schools recognized for achievement
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Two Wellesley elementary schools were recently honored by the Commonwealth for high academic achievement. Katharine Lee Bates Elementary and John D. Hardy elementary were named 2018 Massachusetts Schools of Recognition at a Statehouse ceremony on Friday, June 7.
Bates and Hardy are among 57 schools across the state receiving this distinction, which recognizes...
Dolly Madison visits Needham
