By Julia Beauregard
Hometown Weekly Editor
The day before St. Patrick's Day, Dover seniors celebrated the occasion with their annual St. Patrick’s Day Luncheon. The event was originally scheduled to take place the Tuesday prior, but due to poor weather conditions, the event was pushed forward.
By Julia Beauregard
Hometown Weekly Editor
This past Saturday, March 25th, a long line of children sprang from the children's wing of the newly opened Sherborn Library. Little girls dressed in princess gowns anxiously awaited their turn to meet the Snow Queen.
Children’s faces would light up as...
By Julia Beauregard
Hometown Weekly Editor
Dover children flocked to the community room in the Dover Town Library last Wednesday to learn about the principles of flight, through constructing paper airplanes, rockets, and catapults.
“Today, we have three opportunities to learn how to fly!”...
Norfolk County Sheriff (NCS) Patrick McDermott announced today that the Sheriff’s Office has partnered with the Vanessa T. Marcotte Foundation to develop a series of free self-defense classes for Norfolk County residents. A soft-launch of the program on March 7th was filled to capacity with a waiting list of...
By Julia Beauregard
Hometown Weekly Editor
After nearly six and a half years, the doors to the Sherborn Library finally reopened this past Monday, March 20th. Sherborn locals lined up outside the library doors anticipating the long awaited reopening.
Rounds of applause erupted as...
The School Spelling Bee season comes to a close in the Dover Sherborn Schools with two students moving on to Regional competition.
In its fourth year of participating in the...
By Julia Beauregard
Hometown Weekly Editor
A long line of cars curved around Pine Hill Lane in Sherborn last Friday night, as students and their families headed over to attend the school’s First Annual International Night.
Several countries were represented by different parent volunteers from the community, so...
By Lauren Schiavone
Hometown Weekly Staff
There’s still so much to do on a rainy day at Powisset Farm. Some opt for a walk outside, while others browse the indoor market. Toddlers greeted Friday morning with storytime with Ms. Stacie. Kids took a set on a blanket by the market inside...
Life in the town of River City is hard to come by. To create this astonishing portal into a world of a town that is shocked by a singing and dancing con man, Dover-Sherborn High School turned to the marvelous Sheridan Miller.
Sheridan Miller is a member of the Dover...
By Julia Beauregard
Hometown Weekly Editor
The Dover Town Library (DTL) welcomed locals to learn about our neighbors, on the other side of the planet, through a presentation on the history of Chinese acrobatics. The presentation was hosted by Li Liu, a solo acrobatic performer from China.
Liu...
Sherborn Sixth grade Girl Scout troop run by Crista Mahoney, troop leader, was energized to sell Girl Scout cookies. Cookie sales help many causes, as well as help to fund the troop activities for the year. Many Sherborn and Dover residents stopped by the post office to say hello...
By Lauren Schiavone
Hometown Weekly Staff
Westwood and Dover seniors recently stopped by Powisset Farm for a lesson on lunch. COA regulars reunited in the kitchen for another highly-requested class. The seniors were eager to prepare fresh soups and learn tips from knowledgeable Chef Thi.
By Lauren Schiavone
Hometown Weekly Staff
The Chinese New Year is a celebration known worldwide. The two-week observance commemorates the transition into a new year according to the lunar calendar. To learn more information about the culture and festivities, the Dover Town Library invited special guest Jenny Xue to share her...
By Lauren Schiavone
Hometown Weekly Staff
The winter has gifted New England plenty of cold weather and a few dustings of snow, making for a typically picturesque time of year. Amidst the chill, members of the community are heading to Powisset Farm to enjoy the season to the fullest.
By Elisha Lee
Hometown Weekly Contributor
One of the pitfalls of local history is the tendency to see one’s community as an entity apart from its surroundings. In actuality, of course, Dover was a part of Dedham until 1836, and the original Dedham Grant encompassed 200 square miles, stretching from Boston...
By Lauren Schiavone
Hometown Weekly Staff
Sherborn kids recently hopped into Friday with a special morning storytime hosted at Sweet
Meadow Farm. Children’s Librarian Jessica George (aka Miss Jess) from the Sherborn Library
led an energetic and enriching morning of sharing stories, songs, and games.
Young visitors to the farm made their way past horses and cows upstairs...
By Julia Beauregard
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
Sherborn locals recently took their little ones to the Sherborn Community Center on a snowy
morning to learn about wintertime with local children's entertainer Deb Hudgins.
Hudgins taught the children through winter-themed songs, such as “Jingle Bells” and “Rudolph
The Red-Nosed Reindeer”, just to name a few. The kids danced and frolicked...
By Julia Beauregard
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
Local youths did not have to travel to their nearest zoo to interact with desert and rainforest animals last Wednesday, as Joy Marzolf from Joys of Nature visited the Dover Town Library’s community room to give a presentation on how these animals are able to...
By Cameron Small
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
Powisset Farm runs community events that are not Trustee-member exclusives. One of these events is their currently on-going Reindeer Quest. Free and open to the public during daylight hours through the end of January 2023, anyone is welcome to come to the farm and walk...
