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Needham to celebrate MLK’s legacy
Needham’s celebration and observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is scheduled for Monday, January 21, in the Pollard Middle School auditorium. The program will be from 10 a.m. to noon, and doors will open at 9:30. Refreshments will be served.
The program is sponsored by the Needham Diversity Initiative, Clergy Association, Human Rights Committee, Public...
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Needham’s kids read to Tucker
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By Alex Oliveira
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Tucker is a seven-year-old collie-shepherd-something. “When his ears go back, he kind of looks like a greyhound,” said Tucker’s owner, Adam Cutter, “but we really don’t know.”
Tucker is a trained therapy dog, he has brown inquisitive eyes, and when he’s not comforting residents at rehab centers and...
Medfield’s Irish dancers take first steps
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
While far too young to remember the wildly successful nineties cultural phenomenon “Riverdance,” the children who gathered at the library on Tuesday to learn about Irish dancing were nonetheless delighted to take their first steps.
Yes, a group of around fifteen children from the “Fortnite Dance Challenge” generation were taught...
Medfield’s comeback falls just short
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
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For essentially three quarters, the Medfield girls’ basketball team was getting killed by Medway.
Then, a riveting...
Rich Berg to play Expresso
On January 26, the Expresso Yourself Coffeehouse will feature Rich Berg. The evening's theme will be “Free Voices.”
Rich Berg is the producer and co-host of For the Love of Words filmed at Easton Community Cable, and the program developer and co-instructor of the Poetry Workshops at the Ames Free Library, both in Easton. He...
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Warriors, Wolverines skate to tie
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Two old TVL rivals met on the ice at Pirelli Arena in Franklin on Saturday afternoon as the Medfield High boys varsity hockey team hosted Westwood.
Thanks to some stellar goaltending on both ends by Medfield’s Mason Matthew and Westwood’s Ben Goodrich, the teams were able to garner...
Stark’s 17 propels Raiders past Mustangs
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
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Tim Cofield (33) fights off a defender and moves the ball around the perimeter.[/caption]
The Dover-Sherborn Regional boys basketball team traveled to Norwood on...
DS students play MMEA Senior Festival
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On January 4 and 5, five Dover Sherborn High School students performed at the Massachusetts Music Educators Association Eastern District Senior Festival at Boston Latin School. The students were accepted to perform based on a competitive audition among hundreds of local high school students in November.
Bethany Correll, Amelia Hodson-Walker, and Jack...
Library adds color to weekly events
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
With libraries increasingly moving towards incorporating technology, the Dover Town Library boasts a decidedly old-school remedy to relieve visitors’ stress: adult coloring books.
Yes, the long-preferred time killer of first grade teachers, overworked moms and sippy-cup-serving waitresses everywhere has made its way to adults, and the Dover Library wants to help...
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Scouts teach tech to seniors
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By Alex Oliveira
Hometown Weekly Reporter
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Scout Oliver Fried leads the lecture from the front of the room.[/caption]
At the Dover Town Library on Saturday afternoon, members of the Dover Boy Scouts held...
Third quarter dooms Medfield against Dedham
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
At the half of their game Wednesday night, the Medfield and Dedham’s boys’ basketball teams were deadlocked at 36 points apiece in a game that looked like it would come down to the final possession.
Then, the third quarter happened, and for Medfield, disaster struck.
With the top of their...
O’Leary’s late tally keeps Warriors unbeaten
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Arguably the top two hockey teams in the TVL met at a packed Loring Arena in Framingham on Saturday night for a big-time midseason showdown as the Ashland Clockers (5-2-1, 1-2-1) hosted the Medfield Warriors (4-0-1, 2-0-1).
Thanks a late go-ahead goal by senior forward Stephen O’Leary with...
Cutler Park, hidden in plain sight
By Alex Oliveira
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Hidden along the walls of I-95 north and behind a bland park of Needham offices, a far more remarkable park is waiting to be explored. Cutler Park, roughly 600 acres of state preserved trails, trees, ponds, paths, wetlands and boardwalks, is an unexpected piece of nature hiding behind a concrete corner...
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Needhamites swim ‘Miles for Marly’
Twelve Masters Swimmers from the Needham YMCA swam “Miles for Marly” at the Harvard Blodgett Pool on January 6. This memorial swim is 100x100 yards, or 6.2 miles, of an endurance challenge. The 100-x100 yard event is steeped in history, as it was famously and routinely done by Bobby Hackett, 1976 Olympian, as a workout...
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Needham High beats Walpole, 41-27
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
The Needham High wrestling team picked up a big win over Walpole on Thursday night to improve their record to 3-2 on the year. Early on in the season, the Rockets dropped a few matches while fighting off injuries. For this match, the team was coming off the holiday break, with...
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Chamber to honor Paulette Harwood
The Newton-Needham Regional Chamber will present Paulette Harwood with a lifetime achievement award at the chamber’s annual Needham Night Dinner on January 30 at the Needham Sheraton Hotel.
After nearly 60 years of teaching dancers in Needham and Newton, Harwood retired and closed her business, Paulette’s Ballet Studio, in July of 2018.
“Paulette Harwood touched the lives...
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Dover’s Collins makes music
By Alex Oliveira
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Aiden Collins, an eighth grader at the Dover-Sherborn Middle School, has strummed new life into the school’s music program by hand making five electric basses for the school’s general music program taught by Tom Duprey.
Duprey isn’t directing your ordinary middle school jazz band: there are no rows of folding chairs...
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St. Dunstan’s hosts mini-golf
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By Alex Oliveira
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Members of the greater Dover community enjoyed eighteen holes of indoor mini golf at St. Dunstan’s Church this past Friday. The event was the church’s first event of 2019 in an ongoing series called Dover Unplugged, aimed at bringing families and the community together in a device free setting.
“They’re...
Britt, Guarini, DS track state-bound
