Short-track speed-skater Julia (Julie) Letai has qualified for the 2018-19 US Speedskating World Cup Team, as well as for the Junior World Team. Eighteen-year-old Letai, who graduated Medfield High as president of the class of 2018, will race for the USA in Montreal, Canada on January 26-27, then Dresden, Germany, on February 2-3,...
Amelia Tarallo
Hometown Weekly Special Correspondent
January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Though it tends to be a subject many of us avoid in casual conversation, the A5 Club at Medfield High School has made it their goal to get people talking about human trafficking and how to help its victims.
The main goal of A5, which stands...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
While far too young to remember the wildly successful nineties cultural phenomenon “Riverdance,” the children who gathered at the library on Tuesday to learn about Irish dancing were nonetheless delighted to take their first steps.
Yes, a group of around fifteen children from the “Fortnite Dance Challenge” generation were taught...
On January 26, the Expresso Yourself Coffeehouse will feature Rich Berg. The evening's theme will be “Free Voices.”
Rich Berg is the producer and co-host of For the Love of Words filmed at Easton Community Cable, and the program developer and co-instructor of the Poetry Workshops at the Ames Free Library, both in Easton. He...
The Medfield Plastic Reduction Initiative will host a planning session on Sunday, January 27, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in the Medfield Public Library meeting room, located on 468 Main Street. All are welcome to hear about the next steps and determine how they can help move forward with the initiative to reduce disposable plastic bag distribution...
Medfield High sent a strong student team to Norfolk District Attorney Michael W. Morrissey’s 2018 Peer Leadership Conference at Gillette Stadium – the first in a season of events designed for students supporting healthy decisions in their school communities.
“Having a core of motivated peer leaders is an important part of keeping high school cultures healthy...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
No matter how many Christmas seasons you’ve lived through, nobody knows the second verse of “Deck the Halls.”
Such was the issue on Wednesday afternoon, when a brief technological issue nearly derailed the Christmas sing-along at the Center in Medfield hosted by the Medfield Helping Hearts, a nine-member and...
Retired Medfield Police Chief William “Bill” Hanson Mann, 91, of Medfield Massachusetts passed away unexpectedly on December 5th, 2018 in Framingham after a brief hospital stay.
Born in Framingham MA, he lived in Millis until he moved to Medfield at age 6 where he lived his entire life, making him an official Townie. He left school...
The all-new Medfield wall calendar for 2019, with proceeds benefiting the Medfield Food Cupboard, is now available for sale at various retailers around town. A full-sized, full-color, 13-month calendar, it features photos taken exclusively of Medfield, and 50 percent of the profits are donated to the Food Cupboard each year. This is the calendar's fifth...
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...
