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Westwood Weekend Stroll tentative schedule
Friday, December 6
• 3:30 – 7 p.m.: Westwood Artists’ Marketplace at the Fisher School
• 4 – 7 p.m.: Decor & More Ladies’ Shopping Night
• 4 – 7 p.m.: High Street Market Prepare for the Holidays w/Wine and Food Tasting
• Open until 8 p.m.: Sassy is offering 10% off purchases, free gift wrapping
Saturday, December 7
• 7...
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WOW to host community gathering/dialogue
World of Wellesley is set to host a community gathering and facilitated dialogue, “What Are Our Community’s Core Values?”, on Tuesday, October 22, from 7-9 p.m., at the Wellesley Community Center (219 Washington St).
The evening will include storytelling, small group discussions, and action steps. Among those scheduled to participate in the evening of sharing and...
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MSH Questions
How does the District Zoning Amendment relate to the Medfield State Hospital Master Plan that was published on August 15, 2018?
The District Zoning Amendment that is being proposed is a framework for the development. It is not a detailed blueprint and it all depends on the responses from developers that will actually be bidding on...
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Ice cream cools off Needham residents
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By Amelia Tarallo
Hometown Weekly Staff
The age-old saying “I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream,” seems especially true during the hottest of summer days.
On Wednesday, August 14, visitors at Needham’s Center at the Heights enjoyed a special ice cream social with new and old friends, all while cooling off from the...
Donovan, Needham soccer eye redemption
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By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
By Needham’s lofty standards, the 2018 season concluded in about the toughest way imaginable: losing to arch rival Wellesley in penalty kicks on their home field in the South quarterfinals in the midst of a monsoon. In 2019, Needham will hope to rebound, and it starts at the...
Launching Scholars gives kids leg up
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Doing math in the summer and staying past the bell to do even more math during the school year, all in hopes of eventually learning calculus, is such a nightmare to most students that when a group of kids from an impoverished LA high school did it, they...
Center cookout provides summer fun
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
What’s says summer more than a cookout? And what’s better than a free drink?
You’d be hard-pressed to find an answer to either question, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a better way to spend six dollars than to attend one of the Center at Medfield’s summer cookouts.
For...
The magic of music in Medfield
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By Amelia Tarallo
Hometown Weekly Staff
A love of music is known to form at a young age. On Monday, August 12, parents were invited to bring their kids to a playgroup centered around making music. From 10:30 until 11:30, these parents found themselves watching as their kids' faces lit up in glee while they...
Gustafson, Medfield girls soccer ready up
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By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
A 9-7-2 regular season earned Medfield High girls soccer the No. 14 seed in Division II last fall. The Lady-Warriors took out No. 19 Milton (2-0) in the preliminary round before a heartbreaking 1-0 loss to No. 3 Foxboro in the first round.
The Warriors return a significant core...
Ice cream social celebrates summer’s end
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Unfortunately, the summer is quickly coming to an end. Football is back on television, every store is advertising “back to school” sales, and coffee shops are bringing out the pumpkin spice.
So, to celebrate the end of their summer reading program, the Dover Library held an ice cream...
Balmer, Doyle, Lady-Raiders aiming high
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By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Despite not rostering a single senior and squeaking their way into the Division III Tournament with an 8-8-2 record, Dover-Sherborn girls soccer did more than just raise a few eye brows last fall, thanks to their resilience.
The No. 14 Lady-Raiders ravaged No. 3 Tri-County by a 5-0...
Doverstock revelers remember Woodstock
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Historically, trying to recreate Woodstock has been a disaster.
In 1999, a concert in Rome, NY to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the famed 1969 musical festival devolved into a now-infamous disgrace due to a lack of water, widespread reports of violence, and musical acts like Limp Bizkit,...
Westwood’s O’Dwyer named Academic All-American
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By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
When forced to deal with the void of Jed Cappuccino (knee) in the midfield for a significant chunk of the season, Westwood High lacrosse needed to find ways to get other guys involved and produce on offense. In 2019, one of those guys was senior Justin O’Dwyer. According...
Westwood 12As win Sandwich Summer Blast
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The Westwood 12A baseball team recently traveled to Sandwich, MA, to participate in the annual Sandwich Summer Blast Tournament.
The Westwood Little League 12A team played in the 16 team tournament and won the championship. The boys had to play four playoff games on the final day, beating Hingham in game one, Canton in...
Betsey Baker, straw hat maker
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By Shelly Santaniello
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
Betsey Metcalf Baker (1786-1867) was an inventor and entrepreneur long before it was socially acceptable for women to be independent thinkers and/or wage-earners.
At age twelve, the native Rhode Islander devised a method to make her own straw bonnets. She couldn’t afford the expensive ones imported from England at...
Kakabeeke teaches about right whale’s demise
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
When Angela Kakabeeke read her book, “Whale Alert!”, to the kids of Wellesley Library on Friday, she had to stop and correct one of the lines in it. In the story, a character notes that there are about five hundred North Atlantic right whales left in the world....
Abby Lothian competes in Junior Olympics
Wellesley teen Abby Lothian competed along with thousands of top young athletes from around the nation in the AAU National Junior Olympics in Greensboro North Carolina last week.
Abby took a strong third during her qualifying heat with a time of 13.25. Although she did not advance to the finals this year, she was ranked...
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Guiffre wins Shot For Life Challenge
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By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
The state’s best high school basketball shooters gathered at Starland Sports Complex in Hanover on Saturday to compete in the A Shot For Life Challenge. The event, a two-hour shooting marathon with both a boys and girls division to benefit brain cancer research, has featured star local basketball...
Music in the Barn, weekend of August 17
