By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Last year, TVL softball was played with conference games only, and most of the preseason “what-ifs” revolved around COVID outbreaks, cancelled games and coaches dealing with a roster full of players staying home sick. Now back to a normal season, after speaking with Westwood’s Tom...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
With softball season just around the corner, the Bay State Conference looks to be a competitive one in what will be its first full season since COVID. While the teams played each other last year, softball didn’t start until after April vacation, there were about...
Senior captain Reese O’Connell and the Raiders made history this season with a run to the state tournament’s round of eight.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
This season, the Dover-Sherborn girls basketball team finished the year with a record of 15-8, making the...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
On Saturday night, the Zullo Gallery hosted two jazz concerts to raise money for Razom for Ukraine, a nonprofit raising money for medical supplies to restock Ukrainian hospitals. With shows at both six and eight PM packed to their sixty seat...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Last year, TVL softball was played with conference games only, and most of the preseason “what-ifs” revolved around COVID outbreaks, cancelled games and coaches dealing with a roster full of players staying home sick. Now back to a normal season, after...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
A Cub Scout staple since its inception in 1953, on Sunday afternoon, Walpole’s Cub Scout Pack 44 brought the famed Pinewood Derby to the barn at Adams Farm. Featuring around 35 racers, while many things about the event were new, the...
By James Kinneen,
Hometown Weekly Reporter
While the Dwight-Derby House was open for nearly two hundred visitors earlier this year for Medfield Day, on Saturday it returned to its normal visitation schedule. One of the oldest homes in the United States, analysis of samples from the house’s wooden frame determined that...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
On Friday afternoon, Powisset Farm hosted its spring equinox celebration. Originally scheduled for Saturday, the event was rescheduled because while Saturday’s forecast called for rain, everyone was looking to do something outside on Friday, when the weather was beautiful. With a large crowd on hand...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
While The Westwood Artists have a permanent display at the Westwood Media Center, the collective of painters, sculptors, jewelry makers and other artists who must reside in Westwood to join, now have an annual March display on the bottom floor of...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Cancelled in both 2020 and 2021, the Friends of St. Patrick luncheon and parade finally returned to Walpole this year, which meant that two years after his nomination, Jim Brady could finally accept his Person of the Year award.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Pancakes, sausages, cantaloups, grapes, coffee and the opportunity to ask Norfolk County Sheriff Patrick W. McDermott any questions you may have, were on the menu last Thursday morning, as the Center held its first pancake breakfast since the start of the...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Unrecruited out of high school, during his freshman year at Lehigh University, Dane Kasschau walked onto the lacrosse team. Heading into his sophomore year, the coach told him the team might not have a spot for him. Senior year, they named...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
This fall, the Sherborn Council on Aging brought back their senior cafés at Pilgrim Church, after having previously had to shut them down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, when the Delta and Omicron variants brought COVID back in a major...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
It all started when Rachel Liu didn’t want to share a bathroom.
At least, that’s what the Dover-Sherborn High School graduate turned Hollywood producer says when pressed on how she came to work in film. Currently promoting “Student Body”, a horror movie...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Down two with a chance to play Malden Catholic on the line, on the final possession of their game against Nauset, the Westwood boys’ basketball team missed what would have been a game winning three, as well as what would have...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Whatever the official capacity of the Walpole High School gym is, on Friday night, it was met and exceeded by a large margin. That’s what a playoff matchup between two neighboring towns will do.
But while there were...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
After recounting the now famous story of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky turning down an offer to be evacuated from his country with the declaration “I need ammunition, not a ride,” first generation Ukrainian-American Daniel Pavlotsky told the crowd assembled at Town Hall for Needham’s Vigil...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Robin Bauer, Medfield High School Class of 2004… we’ve got some bad news.
In fact, we’ve got bad news for lots of former Medfield swimmers who set records during their time wearing the white and blue.
See, at the...
Lynne Viti called this the ‘core group’ of the class, though she noted there is room for three or four more members.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
After exclusively meeting on Zoom because of the pandemic, last Tuesday night at the Westwood Library, the Westwood Poet’s Writing...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
When COVID-19 first hit Massachusetts and caused widespread lockdowns in March 2020, the Needham Community Council (NCC) both took on a greater importance in town and was forced to adjust its processes to accommodate social distancing rules. Nearly two years later,...
