Lions prepare for annual gala
Belle of the Ball drive successful
With prom season just around the corner, Medfield High School freshman Gabby Christo has partnered up with Belle of the Ball on a collection drive. Belle of the Ball is an organization that cleans and distributes prom dresses and accessories to girls in need.
Gabby set up collection boxes at the high school and her home,...
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Medfielders take Donate Life to Africa
By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
The start of April will mark the beginning of National Donate Life Month, a time to raise awareness for organ, tissue, and eye donations, and celebrate those who have saved lives through donations.
For Medfield’s Liz Sandeman and her family, though, organ and tissue donations are a year-round concern.
After her sister, T,...
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Medfield DI teams enjoy state success
Fourteen of Medfield’s Destination Imagination (DI) teams competed at the regional tournament in Natick on March 17. The DI program is a fun, hands-on system of learning that fosters students’ creativity, courage and curiosity through open-ended academic challenges.
Teams choose to participate in one of the main challenge categories of early learning (2nd grade), engineering,...
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Rail trail warrant to be presented
By Amelia Tarallo
Hometown Weekly Special Correspondent
During the 1800s, railways covered Massachusetts like a spider web. By the mid 1950s, many of these lines were abandoned. In the years since then, communities have taken these old abandoned lines and turned them into recreational spaces available for the public to use.
Now Medfield is trying to dust...
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Center at Medfield supports MHS students
In support of local high school students, The Center at Medfield invited the Medfield High School Ukulele Club to perform and is also displaying a sock collection box in its reception area.
Three Medfield High students are hosting a sock drive for homeless people in Boston. Called Sox for Socks, Mia Prego, Megan Whelan, and...
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Chris MacLagan graduates from Fire Academy
State Fire Marshal Peter J. Ostroskey, Massachusetts Firefighting Academy Director David C. Evans and Interim Medfield Fire Chief Robert Hollingshead announced the graduation of the 261st class of the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy’s fifty-day Career Recruit Firefighter Training Program on February 26. “This rigorous professional training provides our newest firefighters with the basic skills to perform...
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Inspiration flows with Kwame Alexander
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
On March 8, Medfield Public Schools and the Medfield Public Library closed for the day after the month’s second nor’easter brought wet, heavy snow and powerful winds.
Even with power outages and fallen tree limbs and wires afflicting the town, Medfield Public Schools’ library media specialist, Kerry Cowell, and...
Medfield Winter Carnival is a blast
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
It’s a longstanding tradition that every elementary school student in Medfield looked forward to this year: the annual Winter Carnival at Memorial School.
For years, the Memorial and Wheelock School Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) teamed up to host a day of carnival games and prizes, silent auctions, and baked goods...
7th grade girls are Metrowest champs
The 7th grade girls Medfield basketball team won the Division 2 Metrowest Championship on March 11, capping off a terrific season during which the girls went 13-2 in Metrowest and 17-3 overall. The Team (Left to right) is Chris Olenik, Paige Ostrowski, Rich Callahan (back row), Kate Olenik, Emily Morgan, Eve Tormey, Harper Foscaldo,...
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Expresso Yourself Coffeehouse featuring Colette O’Connor
The Expresso Yourself Coffeehouse returns at 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 31, at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, 26 North Street, Medfield. This month’s Coffeehouse will feature Colette O'Connor, and the theme for the evening is “Messengers.”
Colette O'Connor has been touring/traveling and performing since 2012. Her music is a delightful blend of sunshine, kindness-philosophy, and...
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Medfield Library presents ‘The Girl Mirage’
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
“You look like pink,” began Medfield’s Geena Matuson, “The Girl Mirage.” She read her favorite poem, “Pink,” slowly and from memory, keeping her self-published pastel-colored book in her lap.
“Like opals and firecrackers. Like words describing translucence the eye cannot capture alone, but can only know exists in theory.”
Her...
Nora Cahill wins Lions Speech Competition
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Nora Cahill, a Kingston resident and a junior at the Montrose School in Medfield, was the winner of the Medfield Lions Club’s annual Youth Speech Competition. Nora went on to place in the top 15 of the statewide competition sponsored by the Lions Clubs of Massachusetts.
The competition started last November when high school...
Putting for Patients coming to MHS
On Sunday, March 18, members of the community and their families will flock to the Medfield High School gymnasium at 1 p.m. to support the Jimmy Fund with Putting for Patients. The event will feature a long putt contest, opportunity drawing, free caricaturist, free face painting, free henna tattoos, photo booth and, of course, an...
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MAP welcomes Marshmallow to Jump Start
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The Medfield Afterschool Program’s (MAP) Jump Start, Kindergarten and First Grade program recently adopted a guinea pig from the Medfield Animal Shelter. The children were very excited to meet the new pet and help give her a new name; after many great suggestions, the children voted, and her name is Marshmallow.
Marshmallow will be...
Expresso Yourself Coffeehouse celebrates milestone
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
An estimated two billion birthday cards are sent each year, Dr. Thea Iberall shared in between open microphone performers. Although there were no birthday cards in sight, dozens of members of the community joined Thea to celebrate Expresso Yourself Coffehouse’s second birthday.
Expresso Yourself is an open mic night, which...
Troop 89 members are Eagle Scouts
Medfield’s Boy Scout Troop 89 members Patrick Edward O’Connor, Kyle Parker Heaney, Evan William Sepe and Mark Gerard Fitzpatrick were honored at their Eagle Court of Honor on February 10, 2018 at the Church of the Advent in Medfield. Family, friends, members of Troop 89, as well as state and local officials attended this event,...
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Medfield Community Garden registration opens
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Registration for the Medfield Community Garden on Plain Street has opened for the year. Plots are available on a first-request basis.
Plots come in two sizes: 600 square feet – more than enough space to supply a family of four – and half-sized plots of 300 square feet for those wanting or needing less...
Kira Seamon’s celebration of the arts
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Last August, Dedham-based artist Kira Seamon made her “Stained Glass Sky” debut at the Wellesley Free Library. Since then, Kira’s work has splashed color on the walls of several libraries, including Medfield’s. For a special reception, Kira spent the afternoon of February 14 in the Dailey Room, where she...
Seniors carve out time for handicrafts
