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Dover Library, CRS host STEM program

Dover Library, CRS host STEM program
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By Alex Oliveira Hometown Weekly Reporter [caption id="attachment_31112" align="alignright" width="300"]Karen Pratt giving some guidance. Karen Pratt giving some guidance.[/caption] On Wednesday the 16th, The Dover Town Library and the Charles River School hosted their first of a now-ongoing STEM program (STEM standing for science, technology, engineering, and...
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DS students play MMEA Senior Festival

DS students play MMEA Senior Festival
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On January 4 and 5, five Dover Sherborn High School students performed at the Massachusetts Music Educators Association Eastern District Senior Festival at Boston Latin School. The students were accepted to perform based on a competitive audition among hundreds of local high school students in November. Bethany Correll, Amelia Hodson-Walker, and Jack...
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Library adds color to weekly events

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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Scouts teach tech to seniors

Scouts teach tech to seniors
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By Alex Oliveira Hometown Weekly Reporter [caption id="attachment_31003" align="alignright" width="300"]Scout Oliver Fried leads the lecture from the front of the room. 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...
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Dover’s Collins makes music

Dover’s Collins makes music
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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St. Dunstan’s hosts mini-golf

St. Dunstan’s hosts mini-golf
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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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Talent on display at winter concert

Talent on display at winter concert
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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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Rocky Narrows a sight in the winter

Rocky Narrows a sight in the winter
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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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DSHS serenades Historical Society

DSHS serenades Historical Society
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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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Sherborn Library finds refuge at home

Sherborn Library finds refuge at home
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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...
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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,...
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Dover makes care kits for homeless

Dover makes care kits for homeless
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...
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Holiday party delights Sherborn seniors

Holiday party delights Sherborn seniors
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...
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CDC coordinates drive for homeless children

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...
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‘All Seasons Shade Gardens’ upcoming

‘All Seasons Shade Gardens’ upcoming
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...
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Dover Church hosts annual Thanksgiving luncheon

Dover Church hosts annual Thanksgiving luncheon
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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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Sherbornites make pumpkin centerpieces

Sherbornites make pumpkin centerpieces
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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... </div data-eio= Read more

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...
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Quilters provide comfort, warmth to neighbors

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"]A member of the Power... </div data-eio= Read more

‘High School Musical’ coming to DSMS

‘High School Musical’ coming to DSMS
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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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