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COA walking group hits the trail

The group pauses for a quick photo before heading out on the trail.

By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter

On Thursday, the Sherborn COA walking club met in Holliston to go for a brief hike along the Holliston Rail Trail. Launched in August, the...

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Epiphany Parish holds plant sale

A woman peruses the herb section of the sale late Saturday afternoon.

By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter

On Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., any Walpole resident smart enough to be on the lookout for Mother’s Day flowers, plants, and strawberry shortcake swung by...

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Donovan’s pitching dooms Needham against Walpole

Sam Donovan’s pitching dominated the game, to the tune of a two-hit complete game shutout.

By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter

A complete game two-hitter from left-hander Sam Donovan gave the newly-named Timberwolves a 3-0 win on Friday night, which moved Walpole to 2-0 on the...

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Youngest Little Leaguers work on skills

One of the Cardinals shows off some good fundamentals during a ground ball drill.

By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter

While many older kids played in summer leagues, played pickup games with friends or just found that the baseball skills they’d developed over the years...

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Walpole Youth Lacrosse rolls past Stoughton

A Walpole player lines up a shot early in the first half.

By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter

Although his team dominated the young Stoughton Knights at the new South Walpole Community Athletic Complex (aka, the Route 1A fields), the head coach of the Walpole...

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Young DS, Medfield laxers face off

Medfield’s goalie is the last chance to stop a laser from a Dover-Sherborn attacker.

By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter

At Metacomet Park on Saturday afternoon, the twelve- to fourteen-year-old lacrosse players from Medfield beat the players from Dover-Sherborn in a tight, 12-8 game that...

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Young Needham laxers dominate Medfield

A Needham player puts a shot on goal in the first half of their first game against Medfield.

By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter

In the first game of a double-header for the Needham Youth Lacrosse team on Saturday morning, the Rockets wore gold while...

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Softball season signals return to normalcy

While the team gave up ten runs, teammate Ellie Donahue pointed to Kelsie Pittman’s complete game as a highlight.

By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter

With kids playing catch on the side of Claxton Field, others climbing up the giant rock, mask-less people lounging in...

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New 1A Fields receive high praise

While the entire project isn't done yet, enough is done that teams and individuals can use the new fields.

By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter

Although the project isn’t complete yet, the fields off Route 1A are finally in use, nearly a decade after a...

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Westwood celebrates Earth Day with cleanup

With a mixture of plastic and burlap bags, the group set out from Twin Post Road towards Hale Reservation.

By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter

If you’ve spotted giant bags of trash laid out on the sidewalks of Westwood this week, you may have wondered...

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Town baseball prepares for season return

Will we see this picture again, with a "2021 Champions" banner lying across the front of it? The Orioles sure felt that was a possibility.

By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter

“I think we’ll go 17-0, as long as we actually get to play seventeen...

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Zullo Gallery hosts 26th student show

There aren’t many art shows where the same wall will feature a first grader’s unique, glasses wearing fish, a high school freshman’s layered portrait, a third grader’s Monet inspired landscape and an alternative take on the “Anne of Green Gables” cover from a high school sophomore.

DTL hosts six local poets

Slam poet Jamele Adams asked the crowd to fill the chat section with anything positive that was happening in their lives.

By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter

In celebration of National Poetry Month, on Wednesday night, the Dover Town Library invited six local poets,...

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South St. home becomes Wyeth library

While a regular Needham family was living there not long ago, this house will soon be turned into a library in celebration of N.C. Wyeth.

By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter

Picture Paul Revere’s famous “Midnight Ride.” If you're familiar with the image of the...

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Volleyball looks to finish season strong

While Medfield held tough for the early parts of most sets, they couldn’t stop Ashland’s runs in two straight set losses.

By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter

Now 4-5 after a pair of losses to the 9-1 Ashland Clockers, while many volleyball teams...

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Volleyball ends season with .500 record

Among the positives to come out of this year were the highlight reels that came along with having every game streamed over the internet.

By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter

While the Walpole volleyball team likely would rather have ended their season with a win,...

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Volleyball on three game win streak

Westwood dives on the floor in celebration after a huge win against Hopkinton.

By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter

While many high school volleyball teams are already done with their seasons, Westwood is just a bit over 75 percent of the way done with theirs....

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Sherborn joins Litter Letter Project

Chester said the most commonly littered items were coffee cup, water bottles, cigarette butts, Bud Lights and cinnamon Fireball nips.

By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter

“Why” is there a giant sculpture made out of chicken wire and rebar in the middle of Sherborn, and “why”...

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Sunset Road event honors Vietnam veterans

William Topham spoke about how many Vietnam veterans were left permanently disabled by the war, at the March 29th ceremony.

By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter

While many Memorial Day, Veteran’s Day and other events that honor Americans who served in the armed forces have...

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Elm Bank opens for the season

Elm Bank's famous goddess statues got a deep cleaning this year, performed by the same man that originally restored them.

By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter

The Gardens at Elm Bank, which sit on the Dover border, opened for the season on April 1 -...

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