By Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
The Medfield High School Music Department presented their winter concert on December 11 at 7 p.m. in the school’s Lowell Mason Auditorium. Excitement filled the air as the large crowd settled in to hear the varied program performed by the Concert Choir, Chamber Orchestra, Concert Orchestra, and Concert Band.
The...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Medfield’s Zullo Gallery Center For the Arts unveiled its holiday pieces this week, but visitors won’t find any Christmas trees, elves or stockings covered in glitter - just reasonably-priced pieces from local Massachusetts artists.
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By Alex Oliveira
Hometown Weekly Reporter
It goes without saying that Medfield is dreaming of a white Christmas, but at the Public Library on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, Medfielders were learning how to make a green one.
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This Old Town
He Will Indeed be Missed
In 1651, the first Board of Selectmen in the newly-founded town of Medfield consisted of five of the town’s most respected men: Mr. Ralph Wheelock, Timothy Dwight, Robert Hinsdale, John Frairy and Benjamin Alby. In those early years, the Board of Selectmen consisted of five members elected annually. It...
Medfield High School sophomore Kaitlyn McCarthy has partnered up with Coats for Kids and Anton’s Cleaners to collect winter coat donations as the cold weather rolls in. Winter coats for both children and adults are gladly accepted.
Coats for Kids’ goal is to collect, clean, and distribute coats to everyone in need. The foundation started in...
By Robby McKittrick
Hometown Weekly Reporter
After 44 years as the Medfield Town Administrator, Mike Sullivan has finally decided to call it quits in January.
The longtime administrator has had a long, fulfilling career, but he felt that this was the right time to retire.
“I was 28 when I started, and I will be turning 73 in March,...
By Robby McKittrick
Hometown Weekly Reporter
On Monday, November 19, Temple Beth David in Westwood hosted an interfaith gathering for residents of the Westwood and Medfield communities.
There were a variety of different church and temple members and clergy present for the event, and the theme was centered around compassion.
“There are a lot of differences in...
By Robby McKittrick
Hometown Weekly Reporter
On Thursday, November 15, the Medfield Plastic Bag Reduction Initiative hosted a public forum at the Medfield Public Safety Building to explain why it is important for the town to eliminate the use of plastic bags.
This was the first of two forums for the week, and the overall...
With a week left in November and Giving Tuesday (Tuesday, November 27) only a few days away, the Medfield Food Cupboard is asking that residents include them in their annual end-of-year giving plans and help continue their mission of providing food to Medfield individuals and families in need.
Each tax-deductible donation received will help feed...
By Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
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The Medfield High School Theatre Society presented a lively version of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”...
The annual Medfield Garden Club Holiday Home Sale, "Deck the Halls," is scheduled for Saturday, December 1, at the First Parish Unitarian Church in Medfield, 26 North Street, from 10:00 a.m. to noon.
Visitors will choose from a wide range of fashion-forward table-top displays, festive arrangements, porch and doorway decorations, gift ideas, specialty wreaths and...
On Tuesday evening, October 23rd, at the American Legion Beckwith Post 110 hall, the Medfield High School Boys State and Girls State citizens attended a dinner recognizing them as the 2018 MHS representatives.
Ten MHS boys and eight MHS girls were chosen to participate in Massachusetts Boys State or Massachusetts Girls State from...
The Cultural Alliance of Medfield (CAM) has announced its fourth annual Holiday Stroll on December 7 from 4:00 – 9:00 p.m. This is a festive family event that takes place at 17 venues along Main Street and North Streets, North Meadows Road (Route 27), and at the Dwight Derby House on Frairy...
On Saturday night, science was the big winner as the Medfield community gathered at Gillette Stadium for Medfield Coalition for Public Education’s (MCPE’s) Fall Ball. This year’s capstone fundraising event had a special focus: to bring Science Museum programs to each class from kindergarten through 12th grade. A blustery night outdoors didn’t stop almost 600...
By Robby McKittrick
Hometown Weekly Reporter
On Tuesday, October 30, Rocky Woods Reservation hosted the third graders of Wheelock Elementary School for an annual pilgrimage.
One third grade class full of parents, kids, volunteers, and teachers visited the reservation to celebrate the culmination of the class’ Pilgrim unit. The kids and teachers dressed up in authentic...
The Medfield Warriors and Dover-Sherborn Raiders are set to meet on the gridiron this Thanksgiving morning at 10 a.m. at Dover-Sherborn High School, and the teams are asking for help from the community in collecting food donations.
Tables will be set up to collect non-perishable food donations, and will have jars available for monetary...
By Daniel Curtin
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
The wind howled, tugging at the few remaining leaves hanging on the trees. The cloudy sky blocked the moonlight as rain poured down. The foggy streets of Medfield provided the kind of atmosphere in which ghosts and goblins would feel at home.
On this dark and foreboding Saturday night, the...
By Robby McKittrick
Hometown Weekly Reporter
On Saturday, October 20, Medfield High Schoolers showed up to the Medfield Library to compete in a Super Smash Brothers tournament.
“It’s been a lot of fun,” said 15-year-old player Peter Travis. Travis is a sophomore at Medfield High School and has participated in the tournament since he was...
At the Monday, November 5 Medfield Historical Society meeting, Linda Morse will talk about how Medfield was impacted by the deadly Spanish flu epidemic that killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide.
The 7:30 p.m. meeting is free and open to the public at the old meetinghouse, otherwise known as the First Parish...
Matthew Aucoin, a composer and conductor who graduated in 2008 from Medfield High School, has been named a 2018 MacArthur Fellow.
In announcing the award, the MacArthur Foundation said that the 28-year-old Aucoin’s work as a composer is “expanding the potential of vocal and orchestral music to convey emotional, dramatic, and literary meaning,'' adding:...
