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Joey Alexander Trio playing Great Hall
On Saturday night, September 15, The Great Hall Performance Foundation will welcomes the Joey Alexander Trio.
Joey Alexander numbers among his fans such jazz greats as Wynton Marsalis, Herbie Hancock and Joshua Redman. Now at age 15, the three-time Grammy nominee is considered the Mozart of jazz.
A child prodigy, Joey Alexander taught himself...
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Illuminating the Dark Side of the Moon
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By Ethan Lee
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
Part I: Lessons from Afghan Students
“Illuminating the Dark Side of the Moon” is a series written by Hometown Weekly Correspondent Ethan Lee, a student at Needham High School. As a reporter, Ethan has focused on revealing truths about misunderstood cultures around the global community. Thus, when Ethan noted absence...
Needham Pink Barbarians raise cancer funds
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Needham residents Doug Fox and Dina Hannigan will be leading the Pink Barbarian team in the Jimmy Fund Marathon Walk on September 23. The Pink Barbarians, arriving from across the country, will march the 26.6 mile Boston Marathon route in full armor to help fund cutting-edge care and research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
The...
Raider soccer outlasts Warriors in opener
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
The Medfield and Dover-Sherborn Regional High School boys soccer teams met at Calvin George Fisher Field for the latest chapter of their long and intense rivalry on Friday afternoon, as both teams looked to get an early leg-up in conference play.
Thanks to a shutdown defensive effort and some...
The future is now for MSH
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By Amelia Tarallo
Hometown Weekly Special Correspondent
The Medfield State Hospital (MSH) shut down in 2003. Since then, the property has become Medfield’s go-to locale for dog-walking, sports, and jogs. For years, the town has wrangled with the fate of the open acres left behind in the wake of MSH’s closure.
On August 20,...
This Old Town: Medfield’s Moving Post Offices
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Medfield was first granted a post office in 1807. It was located in the old Wheelock store on the corner of North and Main Streets, where Starbucks is situated today (the old store has since been divided into two sections and moved to #13/#17 South Street, where they are residences). Samuel Seaver, who...
Raider soccer outlasts Warriors in opener
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
The Medfield and Dover-Sherborn Regional High School boys soccer teams met at Calvin George Fisher Field for the latest chapter of their long and intense rivalry on Friday afternoon, as both teams looked to get an early leg-up in conference play.
Thanks to a shutdown defensive effort and some...
Fall Harvest Gala October 20
The annual Dover Sherborn Education Fund (DSEF) Fall Harvest Gala will be held at Silverwood Farm in Sherborn on Saturday, October 20, at 7 p.m. The annual Gala is one of DSEF’s two major fundraisers benefiting the public schools of Dover and Sherborn.
The event is being held for the first time at Silverwood Farm. The...
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Save the Children hosting Boston benefit
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A group of Boston neighbors are launching a new local chapter of Save the Children, an organization that has been doing whatever it takes to help give children in the United States and globally a healthy start for nearly one hundred years. Save the Children’s core mission is to fulfill the promise of...
The Dover Days of our lives
By Daniel Curtin
Hometown Weekly Contributor
The Dover town common was alive with the sound of children's laughter. Dogs of all different shapes and breeds walked around, meeting their fellow canines with wagging tails. Community members walked back and forth up the street, greeting old friends and visiting the many stalls on the side of street. The...
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Magnificent monarchs migrate to Mexico
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By Lisa Moore
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
The monarch butterfly, often called “the king of butterflies,” is an amazing insect.
Four generations of monarch butterflies are born each year. Depending on temperature conditions and food availability, the first generation of monarchs is born in February or March, the second generation is born in May or June,...
VFW hosts dinner for paralyzed vets
The Needham Veterans of Foreign Wars, Lt. Manson H. Carter Post 2498, hosted its annual dinner and game night for Boston-area paralyzed veterans at the Post’s building on Junction Street Tuesday. Needham VFW has held this event for more than twenty years.
Twenty-three paralyzed and disabled veterans from the Brockton VA hospital, accompanied by nurses and...
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NHS Boosters Club sticker drive upcoming
The Needham High School Boosters Club’s Annual Sticker Drive fundraiser begins the weekend of September 22. NHS student athletes will fan out all over Needham’s neighborhoods, knocking on doors, asking residents for a contribution to help support the school’s 75 athletic teams and 10 clubs. In return, they will receive a Rockets sticker.
The Boosters...
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Needham mom commits to protecting transgender rights
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
This fall, Massachusetts’s voters will head to their designated polling location to fulfill their civic duty and submit their completed ballot.
While most will be curious to see the results of the election on November 6, Needham’s Tracy McKay will be particularly anxious to discover the results to...
NHS field hockey has eyes on prize
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
No matter the sport, advancing multiple rounds in the playoffs and ending the season of your arch rivals is a successful one. In 2017, the Needham High School field hockey team did just that, as the Rockets went 14-4 and knocked out Wellesley, 1-0, in the Division I...
Medfield’s Mayer releases healthy cookbook
By Amelia Tarallo
Hometown Weekly Special Correspondent
Cooking and baking can be therapeutic for many people. However, when taking on a new diet, some ingredients must be eliminated. Heather Mayer Irvine’s new book, “The Runner's World Vegetarian Cookbook,” tackles this issue, providing healthier alternatives to some classic dishes.
For example, the red velvet brownies found in the dessert...
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MSH Committee unveils narrated video tour
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The Medfield State Hospital Master Planning Committee is inviting the community to view a narrated driving tour to see features and concepts of the recently-released Strategic Reuse Master Plan for the hospital site. While riding in a classic 1967 Oldsmobile convertible, Gil Rodgers illustrates and explains how historic buildings would be restored and...
Seibel, Warrior field hockey gear up
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Coming off of a tough 3-9-5 record a season ago, the Medfield High School varsity field hockey team will look to rebound in 2018 and get back to the state tournament for the first time since 2015.
Leading Medfield into battle this season will be four senior captains:...
As school opens, Farmers’ Market continues
Medfield is slowly returning to more densely-populated, normal life, now that the summer holidays are over. Parents can find great school lunch-box snacks at the weekly Farmers’ Market, located in front of the historic First Parish Meeting House on North St. each Thursday from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Fortunately, as the season for the market comes...
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