Dover-Sherborn High School will host a parent education event featuring keynote speaker Dr. Brad Sachs on Friday, May 4, from 7:00-8:30 p.m., in the Mudge Auditorium at Dover-Sherborn High School. Dr. Denise Pope will join Dr. Sachs on stage for a conversation about the prevalent stress and anxiety facing adolescents today. They will promote a...
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Senior Café welcomes Happy Strummers
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Every Thursday, the community’s seniors gather at Sherborn’s Pilgrim Church to enjoy lunch with the Sherborn Council on Aging’s Senior Café. Accompanying a delicious spread each week is some kind of program. Sometimes it’s an entertainer. Other times, it’s related to health or travel. And once a month, the...
Sherborn discusses animal intelligence
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Growing up, you may have been told that animals do not have feelings. You may have seen your pet as a commodity, rather than a family member. Perhaps you were told as a youth that humans are superior to animals.
Sherborn-based anthrozoology professor Paul Waldau challenged those who grew up...
‘Damn Yankees’ coming soon
In a typical April, Sheridan Miller and Michael Jones would be involved with a spring production for The Dover Foundation, a philanthropic organization that has provided scholarships to graduating Dover students for the past 70 years. This year, however, their usual performance space at the high school was unavailable, due to it being used for the state’s...
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Packaging love and nutrients for Puerto Rico
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
It seems almost impossible to create 20 thousand meals in just two hours. When the community gets together to do it, though, it’s an easy task. On April 6, members of St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church in Dover partnered with the Outreach Project to create packaged meals for those in...
DS schools launch Mediterranean lunch
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
School lunches get a bad reputation. While America’s school lunches are frequently thought of as microwaved slop, Dover Sherborn Public Schools planned a lunch for the middle and high school students that proved school lunches can easily be delicious and healthy.
With the help of professional chef from the John...
DSMS students to direct spring plays
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After years of experience performing on stage, six Dover-Sherborn High School students are switching roles and making their directorial debut. Student directors Benjamin Hodson-Walker, Lila Hovey, Aidan Levinson, Annie Liu, Katherine Roer, and Jeb Shue, all veteran drama students, will be directing three one-act comedic plays at the Dover-Sherborn Middle School.
In choosing a...
Vernal pool walk scheduled for Saturday
On Saturday, April 14, at 6:45 p.m., Sherborn Conservation Commission will sponsor a sunset walk to hear the wood frogs and peepers singing and visit a vernal pool at the Barber Reservation. Attendees will start at the beautifully restored Barber Barn, where Sherborn Conservation Agent Allary Braitsch will teach about vernal pool creatures and point...
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Pine Hill students sing for seniors
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Sherborn’s Pine Hill School has many traditions, but there is one that the town’s seniors particularly enjoy: the annual senior trip to the school.
For the past seven years, Pine Hill has invited members of the community to visit their school for a catered lunch and a chorus concert from...
Library creates video games from Scratch
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This past week, kids were encouraged to take their gaming skills to a whole new level by putting down the controllers and picking up the video game creation software, Scratch.
At the Dover Town Library’s Create your own Video Game workshop, kids were given the opportunity to use Scratch, an MIT-developed computer program designed...
‘Mind Games’ to address relationship abuse
“Mind Games,” a play and audience discussion about relationship abuse, is coming to Sherborn’s Community Center on Thursday, April 12, at 7 p.m. This free event is hosted by Every Great Reason Foundation, a Sherborn family’s non-profit.
As parents, we want our kids to make good decisions and to be safe, so we talk to them...
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DSDI kids excel for eighth year
For the 8th year in a row, Dover Sherborn Destination Imagination (DSDI) competed in the Regional competition against teams from Ashland, Natick, Sudbury, Wayland, Newton and Boston. Nearly 65 DS students constituted twelve teams, and they all took to the stage at the Wilson Middle School in Natick on Saturday, March 17, to showcase their...
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Stitching together love and community
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
While many were celebrating St. Patrick’s Day on March 17, a group of women was spending the day at Sherborn’s Unitarian Universalist Area Church celebrating something else. As they stitched, ironed, and hand-tied blankets at the Power of the Quilts Project’s (PQP) Quilt-a-Thon volunteers from Sherborn and neighboring communities...
Dover Foundation to present ‘Rumors’
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Rehearsals have started for the Dover Foundation’s Spring Production, "Rumors," a hilarious farce by Neil Simon.
This comedy is set in the late 80s. Guests arrive to celebrate their hosts 10th wedding anniversary.... but something is wrong, Charley, their host has “accidentally” shot himself in the ear and is unconscious, so can’t tell them...
DSMS students perform at MMEA festival
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On March 10 and 11, three Dover Sherborn Middle School students performed in the Massachusetts Music Educators Association Eastern District Junior Festival at Lincoln-Sudbury High School. Arden Caldicott, Jenna Eiten, and Annabelle Schmidt were acceptance and participated in the Junior Festival.
The students auditioned in January with nearly 1,000 students from neighboring towns...
March’s second nor’easter storms through
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
March certainly came in like a lion with a nor’easter at the beginning of the month that left many without power. Just days later, Massachusetts was hit with another nor’easter – this time bringing wet, heavy snow to the Greater Boston area.
Dover Sherborn Regional Schools closed on Thursday, March...
DSHS hosts SADD trivia night
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Which snack company’s advertising campaign included the slogan “Once you pop, you can’t stop” in the 1990s?
It was a question that stumped Dover Sherborn High School’s teens and the question that kicked off their trivia night sponsored by Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) on March 9.
After fueling up on...
DS 8th graders go for hoop title
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DS 8th graders John Bennett, Colin Boland, Willy Bowen, Hakeem Daphnis, Luke Loefflere, Jack Lordi, Ethan Lynch, Jack Potter, Grady Russo and Will Whittlesey are going for MetroWest Youth Basketball’s top prize.
After a third straight 10-win season, the DS 8th grade boys are playing in MetroWest’s Division 1 basketball championship bracket,...
Jon Mattleman to address DS parents
Parents and guardians of children ages 11-21 and members of the community are invited to Jon Mattleman, speaking on "The Secret Life of Teens." The program, which is presented by the DS Challenge Success Speaker Series and SPAN-DS, will be held at the Mudge Auditorium at Dover-Sherborn High School on Tuesday, March 27, from 6:30...
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Sherborn Library construction continues
