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Author Pallotta visits Hardy School
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By Alex Oliveira
Hometown Weekly Reporter
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First graders at Wellesley’s Hardy School were treated on Tuesday morning to a visit from author Jerry Pallotta. Pallotta is...
Dorion, Rockets, outlast McDonough, Rebels
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
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Senior center Matt Smith (23) celebrates with teammates following a fourth quarter dunk.[/caption]
The Needham and Walpole High School varsity boys basketball teams met for...
DA hosts Rockets at leadership conference
Needham High sent a strong student team to Norfolk District Attorney Michael W. Morrissey’s 2018 Peer Leadership Conference at Gillette Stadium – the first in a season of events designed for students supporting healthy decisions in their school communities.
“Having a core of motivated peer leaders is an important part of keeping high school cultures healthy...
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Needham gets redemption against Walpole
Brown leads Herons to unprecedented start
Medfielder Lindsay Brown is helping drive the William Smith College Herons to their best start, ever.
William Smith College ice hockey is off to its best start in program history. The Herons are 10-0-0 overall and 8-0-0 in United Collegiate Hockey Conference play. They enter the winter break on top of the conference standings. William Smith...
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DA hosts Warriors at leadership conference
Medfield High sent a strong student team to Norfolk District Attorney Michael W. Morrissey’s 2018 Peer Leadership Conference at Gillette Stadium – the first in a season of events designed for students supporting healthy decisions in their school communities.
“Having a core of motivated peer leaders is an important part of keeping high school cultures healthy...
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Medfield’s Helping Hearts visit seniors
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
No matter how many Christmas seasons you’ve lived through, nobody knows the second verse of “Deck the Halls.”
Such was the issue on Wednesday afternoon, when a brief technological issue nearly derailed the Christmas sing-along at the Center in Medfield hosted by the Medfield Helping Hearts, a nine-member and...
Raiders dominate Mohawks, move to 3-1
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
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The phrase...
Talent on display at winter concert
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By Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
The music department held its Middle School and High School Winter Band Concert on December 19 in the Mudge Auditorium at Dover-Sherborn High School. The full house enjoyed a concert that featured promising young musicians and a broad variety of entertaining musical selections.
A jovial and welcoming master of...
Rocky Narrows a sight in the winter
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By Alex Oliveira
Hometown Weekly Reporter
If you go far enough out, there’s a point where time starts to turn backwards.
The suburbs and their strips give way to thickening woods and wetlands, and the houses that line the road appear to have been plucked immaculately from a bygone New England. When the houses...
CRBA performing at New Years Needham
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Forty-one students, ages 8-18, from Needham’s classical ballet school, Charles River Ballet Academy (CRBA), will perform on the Needham Town Hall stage on December 31 at 3:15 p.m. as part of New Years Needham. The performance will feature classical pieces from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Giselle and Coppelia,” as well as...
A Christmas Memory
By Thomas Keating, Jr.
There isn’t a worse time to be in a hospital than during the holiday season, but there I was. I was in the Army hospital at Ft. Dix, New Jersey, falling ill with severe pneumonia during basic combat training, caused, no doubt, by training outdoors that cold, snowy November of 1968.
My high...
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Injury-ravaged wrestling drops first match
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
With huge swaths of their starters out due to injury and illness, the Needham Rockets wrestling squad dropped its first match of the season, 42-39.
The team started strongly early, tallying several pins in the lightest weight classes. However, as the weights became higher and higher, the Rockets could...
Kelly, Lady-Rockets blank Redhawks
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
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Junior right wing Charlotte Tolman...
2019 Medfield wall calendar available
The all-new Medfield wall calendar for 2019, with proceeds benefiting the Medfield Food Cupboard, is now available for sale at various retailers around town. A full-sized, full-color, 13-month calendar, it features photos taken exclusively of Medfield, and 50 percent of the profits are donated to the Food Cupboard each year. This is the calendar's fifth...
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An uplifting winter concert in Medfield
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By Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
The Medfield High School Music Department presented their winter concert on December 11 at 7 p.m. in the school’s Lowell Mason Auditorium. Excitement filled the air as the large crowd settled in to hear the varied program performed by the Concert Choir, Chamber Orchestra, Concert Orchestra, and Concert Band.
The...
Garden Club holiday party warms hearts
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By Alex Oliveira
Hometown Weekly Reporter
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The event room at the Westwood Senior center was a wintry field of red, green and soft white on Thursday afternoon as the Westwood Garden Club hosted...
DSHS serenades Historical Society
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Thanks to the Dover Sherborn High School's a cappella singing group, Noteworthy, the Dover Historical Society launched the holiday season in grand style. A dozen singers performed in the Caryl Farm’s Fisher Barn. They serenaded visitors with a delightful array of seasonal music, which they had chosen and arranged themselves.
They and the audience...
Thomas Philbin takes LBE award
Thomas Philbin, Westwood's Energy Manager, was honored at the Massachusetts State House on December 6, 2018 with a Public Sector Individual Award in the 12th annual Leading by Example (LBE) awards. These awards, given by the Baker-Polito administration, recognize those who promote clean energy and sustainable initiatives. Additionally, Philbin was awarded congratulatory citations on the LBE award...
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