By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
The line between protesting and indiscriminate vandalism is blurring with every passing day. After bringing down only statues devoted to Confederate leaders, quickly the razor-sharp focus of statue topplers expanded to include the likes of Christopher Columbus, conquistadors, police chiefs they deemed racist, slave-holding Union...
How was I supposed to not go on the railroad tracks, at the end of this trail?
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Just this year, we lost two of the few remaining mysteries in America. Fenn’s Treasure, a chest of gold and jewels worth...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
On Thursday night, the Westwood School Committee met over Zoom to discuss reopening plans for the fall, as well as a few other issues.
The meeting started with Emily Parks acknowledging the death of a longtime colleague. Former Westwood High principal Phil...
Good effort to run out this ground ball from Hunter Anderson, even in a game that wasn’t going Needham’s way.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
With no American Legion baseball being played this year, the Massachusetts Independent Baseball League has stepped in to take...
Police tape separating the eight by eight foot 'blocks' litters the beach at Farm Pond.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
With brutally hot temperatures over the weekend, people were flocking to any cold watering hole they could find to escape the heat. Luckily for...
The buds are close to blooming, but not quite ready to go.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
There’s a very famous short story by Ray Bradbury called “All Summer in a Day” that’s widely touted as one of the saddest things ever written. Basically, the story...
While it might not look like much in the photograph, this dam is much higher and louder you would think.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Why are people so infatuated with some obsolete technologies, but don’t care at all about others? It’s a...
Live plants, like these flowers are selling especially well as more people have time to garden.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
If eating healthy, fresh and local produce is part of keeping a healthy immune system, then it only makes sense that the...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Looking at the Needham police log, it’s hard not to notice that all of a sudden one specific crime is taking over the community: unemployment fraud. There are a couple of reasons for this, but none of them involve anything unique to the town of...
This man praised the shade Cricket Playground provides on a hot day.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
With a handful of parks and recreational fields opening last weekend, Needham residents were out and about doing a wide variety of activities, just before two massive...
While they’d like to be with their friends again, a pair of cousins enjoy time together at the now open Metacomet Playground.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
With it becoming increasingly clear outdoor activities are not a primary source of widespread COVID transmission, Medfield...
While many kids were out on the playgrounds and courts, his premature status as a baby kept Jack Spinello homebound on his first birthday.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
With the playing fields and recreational playgrounds of Westwood opening this weekend, the question arose...
Jim Govatsos waves his “Thin Blue Line” flag in front of a Walpole PD cruiser as he corrals the crowd from behind.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Around the country, it seems like the police are struggling to find allies.
On...
David Denison was one of the few people willing to brave the heat and use the newly reopened skate park.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
You toil all week getting your pool from a green swamp to a blue oasis as your children complain,...
From certain angles, Lyman’s Pond looks more like a golf course than a body of water.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
I have a weird obsession with hermits. My favorite hermit story is that until the early 1800’s, wealthy families would employ “garden hermits”...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
There’s no question that, from a physical standpoint, COVID-19 hit the senior population the hardest. Unfortunately, with people being hesitant to visit their grandparents, seniors being hesitant to leave their homes knowing how hard it hits them, and the unfortunate reality of Massachusetts having lost...
While the mascot name encompassed most of the event, it did end with a kneeling moment of silence in remembrance of George Floyd.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
With Confederate statues toppling all over the country, schools being renamed, and even the most stereotypically...
There’s plenty of space and fresh air, making the farmer’s market perfect for the era of COVID-19.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Because of Massachusetts’ phased plan of reopening, as well as people’s discomfort with being in small, closed-in areas, it seems like every...
A man fishes with a family of (invasive) mute swans in the background.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
It was hot on Saturday, June 6. Really, really hot. And I had to hike around the Blue Heron Trail at Cutler Park before the rain...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
On Tuesday night, the Walpole School Committee held a virtual forum where Walpole residents, town employees and students made their case why Walpole High School should keep or abandon the Rebel name. Shown on Walpole Media cable access and live-streamed on their Rebel TV YouTube...
