Category Archive for "Dover-Sherborn"

Library adds color to weekly events

By James Kinneen Hometown Weekly Reporter With libraries increasingly moving towards incorporating technology, the Dover Town Library boasts a decidedly old-school remedy to relieve visitors’ stress: adult coloring books. Yes, the long-preferred time killer of first grade teachers, overworked moms and sippy-cup-serving waitresses everywhere has made its way to adults, and the Dover Library wants to help...

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Scout Oliver Fried leads the lecture from the front of the room.[/caption] At the Dover Town Library on Saturday afternoon, members of the Dover Boy Scouts held...

By Alex Oliveira Hometown Weekly Reporter Aiden Collins, an eighth grader at the Dover-Sherborn Middle School, has strummed new life into the school’s music program by hand making five electric basses for the school’s general music program taught by Tom Duprey. Duprey isn’t directing your ordinary middle school jazz band: there are no rows of folding chairs...

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By Alex Oliveira Hometown Weekly Reporter Members of the greater Dover community enjoyed eighteen holes of indoor mini golf at St. Dunstan’s Church this past Friday. The event was the church’s first event of 2019 in an ongoing series called Dover Unplugged, aimed at bringing families and the community together in a device free setting. “They’re...

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By Audrey Anderson Hometown Weekly Correspondent The music department held its Middle School and High School Winter Band Concert on December 19 in the Mudge Auditorium at Dover-Sherborn High School. The full house enjoyed a concert that featured promising young musicians and a broad variety of entertaining musical selections. A jovial and welcoming master of...

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By Alex Oliveira Hometown Weekly Reporter If you go far enough out, there’s a point where time starts to turn backwards. The suburbs and their strips give way to thickening woods and wetlands, and the houses that line the road appear to have been plucked immaculately from a bygone New England. When the houses...

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Thanks to the Dover Sherborn High School's a cappella singing group, Noteworthy, the Dover Historical Society launched the holiday season in grand style. A dozen singers performed in the Caryl Farm’s Fisher Barn. They serenaded visitors with a delightful array of seasonal music, which they had chosen and arranged themselves. They and the audience...

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By Alex Oliveira Hometown Weekly Reporter Since the Sherborn Library closed for extensive renovations in December 2016, the library’s collection and staff have found a welcoming temporary home in the Sherborn Community Center. “The Community Center has been very kind to us, letting us integrate ourselves into their space,” Said Liz Rowland, the library’s Assistant Director. [caption...

Town Report Committee seeks Dover photos

The Dover Town Report Committee is inviting photography enthusiasts to submit their work for publication consideration in the upcoming 2018 Dover Town Report. The committee seeks photographs that showcase Dover and it's citizens through themes such as nature and wildlife, architectural highlights, sports events, everyday town scenes or events that include Dover Days, summer concerts,...

By Alexander Oliveira Hometown Weekly Reporter As part of their Dover Unplugged program, St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church invited members of the congregation and the greater community to fill over 225 care bags for two Boston homeless shelters this past Friday night. “It’s the giving season” said event organizer Carol Chirico, “and we’ve got the whole community putting...

By James Kinneen Hometown Weekly Reporter Even with a well problem shutting down the water inside of Sherborn’s Pilgrim Church, both the holiday spirit and the spirit of giving flowed freely throughout the Sherborn Council on Aging’s Senior Holiday Party on Thursday afternoon. Holiday music played and food was served, but while the meal was tasty and the...

CDC coordinates drive for homeless children

The teachers and families of The Center for the Development of Children (CDC) recently partnered with Horizons for Homeless Children to assist those in need. The mission of Horizons for Homeless Children is to improve the lives of young homeless children in Massachusetts and help their families succeed by providing high-quality early education, opportunities for...

Popular horticulturalist and speaker Betty Sanders will present a program on “All Seasons Shade Gardens” on Tuesday, December 11, at the Dover Town Library, Lower Level, at 9:30 a.m. Doors will open for refreshments at 9:00 a.m. Shade is a fact of life in New England. Many gardeners spend countless hours trying to brighten those spaces...

Dover Church hosts annual Thanksgiving luncheon

[ccfic caption-text format="plaintext"]By Robby McKittrick Hometown Weekly Reporter On Tuesday, November 13, the Dover Church hosted its annual Thanksgiving luncheon for the members of the community. The Council on Aging has run the luncheon for at least 11 years, and this year’s iteration of the event was particularly well attended. “It was a rainy day and I wasn’t sure...

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By Robby McKittrick Hometown Weekly Reporter On Tuesday, November 13, members of the Sherborn Garden Club and other residents of the community visited the Sherborn Community Center to learn how to make succulent pumpkin centerpieces. [caption id="attachment_30046" align="alignright" width="300"]

Owner of The Captured Garden Deborah Trickett shows members of the Garden Club how to...
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DSHS to host performance of ‘Mr. Joy’

ArtsEmerson and partners are set to present "Mr. Joy," a play that explores issues of race and class in America. Directed by David Dower and performed by Adobuere Ebiama, the event will be held on Monday, November 26, from 6:30 to 8:45 p.m. in the Alan T. Mudge Auditorium at Dover Sherborn High School. Tickets...

Quilters provide comfort, warmth to neighbors

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By Robby McKittrick Hometown Weekly Reporter On Saturday, November 10, the Unitarian Universalist Area Church held a Quilt-A-Thon for quilters in the community. The Quilt-A-Thon is part of the Power of the Quilt Project, which focuses on donating comfort quilts to cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy treatment. [caption id="attachment_30029" align="alignleft" width="300"]

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"High School Musical" is set to be performed at Mudge Auditorium on Thursday, December 6, at 6:30 p.m., Friday, December 7, at 7:00 p.m., and Saturday, December 8, at 1:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Sherborn resident and director Claire Mackay is recreating "High School Musical" – eleven years later and in a different...

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By Audrey Anderson Hometown Weekly Correspondent The Dover-Sherborn Drama Program presented “Little Women” by Matt Buchanan on November 1–3 at Dover-Sherborn High School. The fine cast of over 40 students was supported by an able crew of more than 50 students who handled all aspects of production. The main roles were played by two...

Eric Arnold, Executive Director of Hale Reservation in Westwood, will speak at the Dover Library, Lower Level Wednesday, November 14, at 7:30 p.m. This program is co-sponsored by the Dover Historical Society and Chicatabot Garden Club. Refreshments will be served starting at 7:00 p.m. Hale Reservation is a 1,137-acre tract of largely undeveloped woodland straddling the...

Category Archives: Dover-Sherborn

Library adds color to weekly events

Scouts teach tech to seniors

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Dover’s Collins makes music

St. Dunstan’s hosts mini-golf

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Talent on display at winter concert

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Rocky Narrows a sight in the winter

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DSHS serenades Historical Society

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Sherborn Library finds refuge at home

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Town Report Committee seeks Dover photos

Dover makes care kits for homeless

Holiday party delights Sherborn seniors

CDC coordinates drive for homeless children

‘All Seasons Shade Gardens’ upcoming

Dover Church hosts annual Thanksgiving luncheon

Sherbornites make pumpkin centerpieces

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DSHS to host performance of ‘Mr. Joy’

Quilters provide comfort, warmth to neighbors

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‘High School Musical’ coming to DSMS

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DSHS puts on ‘Little Women’

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Hale’s Arnold to address Garden Club

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