By Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Editor
This week, with Hometown Weekly celebrating its 25th anniversary, we’re looking back to March of 1997 to see just how differently home looked when the first edition of our paper (then known as The Home Shopper) debuted.
• A 50-year-old Bill Clinton...
By Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Editor
A few months ago, before the cold precluded our doing so comfortably, I was sitting outside with an icy drink in my hand, enjoying the last of New England’s nice weather for the season.
As I sat, scanning my surroundings as I usually do, I heard...
By Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Editor
It seems most seasons around New England have their detractors.
While the skiers and skaters among us are loving every moment of the winter, self-identified “summer people” are kvetching about freezing extremities and aching bones. In springtime, as the world wakes itself...
The exotic-looking scarlet tanager is thought to be rarer, globally, than the wild turkeys we see running around our communities.
By Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Editor
As a small boy growing up in New England, one of my prized possessions was an old illustrated field...
VigUU Wellesley Hills will hold its monthly, 15-minute, silent, Black Lives Matter Vigil on Tuesday, August 3, at 6:00 p.m. in front of the church at 309 Washington St. All are invited to stand with VigUU Wellesley Hills to honor Black lives harmed and lost, those victims of racial violence and injustice, known and...
Sherborn’s Pine Hill Cemetery is very much alive.
By Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Editor
Among nature preserves and hidden wooded locales in the middle of nowhere, we often forget that all of our communities feature quiet, green spaces - typically centrally placed ones - that...
By Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Editor
Years ago, when I was a small child, I spent my weekdays alongside my maternal grandmother, Ma, who watched me while my parents worked. In retrospect, those days had an outsized influence on me - it was in Ma’s kitchen where I first would develop...
To The Editor,
Thank you to Jamie O’Loughlin and the “Project Love” team along with many unknown folks in the Medfield community who contributed to help make Valentine’s Day extra special for the residents of Tilden Village (and the residents of the Thomas Upham House) during the pandemic.
Patrick Brennan’s Simon Blake and Molly Gooman’s Mary Rose.
By Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Editor
In a pandemic-altered year that’s forced changes to nearly everything, among the more disappointing consequences has been watching young, talented members of Hometown Weekly’s communities denied their “close-ups.” It is...
The gray fox's face is flatter, and could perhaps be described as more feline than that of a red fox.
By Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Editor
The yips grew closer and closer. Two distinct individuals could be discerned, as though they were in conversation. As...
By Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Editor
Before I start, I'm going to have to apologize in advance for the amount of onomatopoeia in this story. Typically, I'm not one who relishes rendering (or reading) abstract sounds in print, but really, there's no other option here. How else is one to describe...
Since 1927, the Wellesley Service League (WSL) has provided numerous volunteer services in a variety of cultural and education ways, and in conjunction with other charitable organizations, for the town of Wellesley.
Due to the onset of COVID-19, WSL had to reevaluate how to safely proceed with their operational responsibilities....
By Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Editor
In Flanders fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place;
For years, July 4 has lulled us into a sense of almost patriotic routine. We know the day, its festivities and rituals so well that its trappings have...
'I have a local resident through which you can live vicariously this summer: the ruby-throated hummingbird.'
By Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Editor
Social distancing and quarantining were always going to be difficult.
It was far easier to stomach, though, during the gray,...
All Walpole residents are being welcomed, on Saturday, June 20 at 12:30 p.m. (following Town Meeting), to meet at Walpole High School to walk (or drive) to the Walpole Police Station for a celebration and opportunity to say "thank you, Walpole Police Department."
The Walpole Police Department take an oath...
The Westwood Legion Post 320 accomplished 100 percent membership for the current year. Post 320 was one of 22 posts in the district to accomplish 100 percent membership.
If you have served federal active duty in the United States Armed Forces since December 7, 1941, and have been honorably discharged...
By Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Editor
For as long as I can remember, Walpole’s been a sports town.
From the Porkers’ perpetual excellence to local Little Leaguers streaking towards Williamsport to the grit and skill of current Bruin Chris Wagner, this is a community that properly celebrates the...
Nathan Feinfeld, a seventh-grader at Westwood’s Thurston Middle School, will celebrate his bar mitzvah in August at Congregation Dorshei Tzedek in Newton. Nathan’s brother and he have attended Massachusetts Audubon summer camps for nine years, and Nate is an avid fan of birds. For his bar mitzvah project, then, Nate worked with Property...
Harvard Medical School affiliate Hebrew SeniorLife (HSL), a nonprofit organization committed to improving the lives of older adults, has recognized Wellesley resident Steve Bearak during National Volunteer Week for his contributions to HSL during the current COVID-19 emergency. National Volunteer Week runs April 19 -25, 2020.
“The operations of all...
By Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Editor
April 29.
A little over a month ago, just as social distancing in Massachusetts became the law of the land, I set out for a drive around Hometown Weekly’s communities. The aim was to take in the changes that had occurred, and...
