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Dover kids guess the Oreo type
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
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Oreos are said to be...
Powisett Farm hosts Ayurvedic cooking class
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
On Saturday afternoon, Powisett Farm held a cooking class that was designed to do more than fill your stomach - it was designed to bring your life balance.
Kristina Bedoya, a plant-based chef and lifestyle counselor, taught the students in attendance all about Ayurvedic cooking, an ancient Indian...
Raiders claim Division III Central title
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
It’s been a wild ride for the Dover-Sherborn boys basketball team this 2018-2019 season, and on Saturday in Worcester, the Raiders put together a banner win with a 50-36 victory over No. 1 Hudson in the Division III Central finals.
The thing that has made this DS team extremely...
‘Face To Face With Orangutans’ at Expo
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By Rama K. Ramaswamy
Wellesley STEM Expo 2019, part of the Wellesley Education Foundation, has announced that Dr. Cheryl Knott, Professor of Anthropology and Biology at Boston University and Executive Director of the Gunung Palung Orangutan Project in Gunung Palung National Park, Indonesia, will be the keynote speaker at the Expo on Aril 6....
‘High School Musical, Jr.’ on tap
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By Rama K. Ramaswamy
Wellesley Middle School is set to present Disney's "High School Musical, Jr." on March 21 at 4:30 p.m., March 22 at 7 p.m., and March 23 at 2 and 7 p.m. The show features two sets of casts, A and B, which gives student-actors more opportunities to act in featured...
Wellesley planning to recognize poet Plath
By Gail-Agnes Musikavanhu
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
Fifty-six years after Sylvia Plath's death on February 11, 1963, the town of Wellesley and its citizens have a number of initiatives underway to finally formally recognize the town's most famous resident.
The Historical Commission, which erects plaques on homes built before 1919, is beginning a process of erecting virtual and actual...
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STEM Expo to feature ‘Picturing Science’
The Wellesley Education Foundation Board of Directors has announced a featured exhibit for Wellesley STEM Expo on April 6. “Picturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Technologies,” an exhibition of more than 20 sets of striking large-format prints, showcases advanced imaging technologies used by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and reveals once-hidden, intricate...
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Wellesley ABC launches capital campaign
By Rama K. Ramaswamy
Education is a gift that keeps on giving. Residents are invited to support forty-six years of success with Wellesley A Better Chance (ABC) and its capital campaign to purchase a permanent home for scholars in proximity to Wellesley High School.
ABC believes that better educational opportunities lead to better lives and a...
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Clever Hand Gallery hosting student work
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The Clever Hand Gallery will showcase work by students from the Intensive Metals class at Wellesley High School. This is the ninth year of collaboration between the local artisans’ cooperative and the talented students.
Students in Shayla Vines’ Intensive Metals class started school year with everyone working on the ancient technique of “open back”...
Downey students tackle GeoBee
“Iqaluit, which means ‘place of fish,’ is the biggest community on the largest island in the Arctic Archipelago. Name this island.”
That’s a question from last year’s National Geographic GeoBee, an annual competition of fourth through eighth grade students from nearly 10,000 schools across the country. While the ultimate prizes include college scholarships and cash,...
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Westwood seniors learn about Bing Crosby
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Just days after Lady Gaga was lauded at the Academy Awards for her performance in “A Star is Born,” former film salesman for the Walt Disney Company Bruce Hambro taught the seniors of the Westwood Council on Aging all about Bing Crosby, the “first multimedia star of the 20th...
Donohue lifts Wolverines to South semifinals
By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Coming off a regular season in which they won the TVL and qualified for the state tournament for the 37th consecutive year, it’s safe to say that the 2018-2019 season has already been a major success for the Westwood High boys varsity hockey team.
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Norman Rockwell program coming to library
Norman Rockwell program coming to library. The art of Norman Rockwell will be featured by Beth Knaus of ArtMatters on Tuesday evening, March 12, at 7:00 p.m. in the Community Room of the Walpole Public Library, located on 143 School Street. Part of the Art Series sponsored by the Friends of the Walpole Public...
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A man named Walpole, Sir Robert Walpole
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By Amelia Tarallo
Hometown Weekly Staff
Like a great many countries, the United States named many of its towns after its political heroes. Our country's capital is named after our first president. Adams, Massachusetts is named after our second president. Revere is named after patriot Paul Revere.
But it seems almost strange to name a town...
Hubbard’s shutout freezes Rebels
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WSF supports Walpole students
By Caitlin Kahaly
WHS Student
For the past 35 years, The Walpole Scholarship Foundation (WSF) has supported Walpole High School seniors and alumni by granting over $3 million in financial aid based off merit and needs for students pursuing post-secondary education.
“We as a foundation see how great and hardworking these students are. We see the great challenges...
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Paine teaches family legacy in Wellesley
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
On Sunday afternoon, Tom Paine, a Harvard graduate and descendant of Declaration of Independence signer Robert Treat Paine, presented a historical presentation on his family’s unique impact on American history.
While Paine noted that Robert Treat Paine is “perhaps the least well known of Massachusetts’ founding fathers,” he is also...
Wellesley ukulele lesson becomes musical tour
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
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What was supposed to be the last lesson of a six-week ukulele class became a private lesson and a musical tour...
Hubbard’s shutout freezes Rebels
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
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Walpole’s Marc Hirshom and Wellesley’s Joe Fleming collide while battling for a loose puck. [/caption]
Two old rivals met in the first round...
