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Catching up with Medfield

Catching up with Medfield
By Katrina Margolis Hometown Weekly Reporter While Medfield may only have a population of 12,000, it is often deceptively easy to keep up with the goings-on around town. Town Administrator Mike Sullivan shed some light on upcoming important events in the town, and the highlights residents should know to be as informed as possible. The two biggest...
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Community Garden accepting plot registrations

Community Garden accepting plot registrations
Registration for the town-owned garden on Plain Street opens for the year on March 2. 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 or more – and half-sized plots of 300 square feet for those new to gardening...
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Hometown Weekly celebrates 20th anniversary

Hometown Weekly celebrates 20th anniversary
By Stephen Press Hometown Weekly Staff The very nature of the news is that it is irregular, a story that never ends. One must break it up into convenient chunks for digestion - the 24-hour cycle of the evening news, the monthly period of The Atlantic, or the weekly format of Hometown Weekly, for example - but...
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Winter Carnival coming to Medfield

Winter Carnival coming to Medfield
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For more than 20 years, the Winter Carnival Committee, comprised of families from the Memorial and Wheelock PTO, has been transforming Memorial School’s classrooms and hallways into a festive Winter Carnival. The event features dozens of booths offering a wide range of games and activities, raffles and prizes as well as lunch and...
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Medfield is side-by-side with Berklee World Strings

Medfield is side-by-side with Berklee World Strings
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By Geena Matuson Hometown Weekly Staff For the first time in its history, Berklee World Strings performed a side-by-side concert with Medfield Strings Orchestra on Wednesday evening. This was, in fact, the first time Berklee World Strings had performed side-by-side with any middle or high school program, and it was truly sensational. Berklee World Strings...
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Expresso Yourself Coffee-house celebrates birthday

Expresso Yourself Coffee-house celebrates birthday
Feb. 2016. Eddie Love talks about how he bought a harmonica 50 years ago and couldn’t figure out how to play it. He’s a big, balding truck driver with the remnants of a white ponytail. The audience starts fidgeting, but then Eddie pulls out his harmonica and croons out “Shenandoah” with such sweetness that all...
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MYBS Buy-A-Brick program is back

MYBS Buy-A-Brick program is back
Medfield Youth Baseball and Softball (MYBS) has invited the community to join the 75+ Medfield Youth Baseball & Softball families, friends, and local businesses that have already purchased a brick to put their personal stamp on the new Swain Concession Stand at Metacomet Field. Are you looking to support your local community and take advantage of...
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MSH Committee hosts community workshop

MSH Committee hosts community workshop
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By Katrina Margolis Hometown Weekly Reporter Last Tuesday, the development of the former Medfield State Hospital Site took a substantial step forward. The Medfield State Hospital Vision and Master Plan Committee hosted a community workshop at Medfield High School, welcoming all Medfield members to lend their input for the development of the site. Within the...
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Medfield COA hosts Great Books group

Medfield COA hosts Great Books group
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By Katrina Margolis Hometown Weekly Reporter In today’s hectic world, it can be difficult to make time to simply read a book. With the responsibilities of everyday life, as well as the fast-paced world of technology surrounding us, reading can often fall to the wayside. Not so for members of the Great Books Discussion Group at...
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Superintendent outlines five year plan

In a recent blog post, Superintendent Jeff Marsden introduced a five year Strategic Plan addressing the direction of the school district. “Medfield 2021: A Vision for the Future” is the culmination of months of work synthesizing community input, focus group data and survey feedback by Dr. Marsden and the School Committee. The Strategic Plan, “Medfield...
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Medfield high schooler publishes first book

Medfield high schooler publishes first book
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By Katrina Margolis Hometown Weekly In seventh grade, most students’ goals include getting good grades, making it through the year without any embarrassing interactions, and getting all your work done fast enough to hang out with your friends. Carina Christo, however, was not an average seventh grader. Today, she is not your average ninth grader....
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Medfield sponsors parent talk

Medfield sponsors parent talk
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Medfield Talks, a collaborative group of parent organizations and district leadership, is hosting a free talk, “Achieving Sanity & Success,” with Michael Delman, CEO, Beyond BookSmart, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 9, in the MHS Lowell Mason Auditorium. Prior to founding Beyond BookSmart, an academic/life skills coaching firm, Delman was co-founder...
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Got the world on a string in Medfield

Got the world on a string in Medfield
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By Katrina Margolis Hometown Weekly Reporter There are few things more delightful in this world than puppets. A form of entertainment that has been around for hundreds of years, it continues to engage and enliven audiences to this day. One particular demographic in particular enjoys puppet shows these days, and that would be children. This...
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Medfield COA celebrates monthly birthdays

Medfield COA celebrates monthly birthdays
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By Katrina Margolis Hometown Weekly Reporter The Medfield Council on Aging is extraordinarily well attended. Weekly events, special talks, and outstanding opportunities draw in community members from all over the town. One way The Center shows their appreciation is through a monthly birthday party celebrating those who have birthdays during the month, but also providing...
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Thompson to speak about State Hospital

Thompson to speak about State Hospital
On February 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church on 26 North Street, John Thompson, Chairman of the Medfield State Hospital Buildings & Grounds Committee, will share his experiences managing the former Medfield State Hospital property. John will show pictures of the buildings and grounds, some historical and some recent. John...
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Medfield Meadows 40B proposal denied

Medfield Meadows 40B proposal denied
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By Stephen Press Hometown Weekly Staff In Medfield, opponents of the proposed Medfield Meadows Chapter 40B development are celebrating a major victory as the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency (MassHousing) denied the project’s application. Medfield Meadows LLC was notified of the denial in a letter on Tuesday, Jan. 31. This recent development comes in the wake of...
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Medfield students give, wear hats

Medfield students give, wear hats
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By Stephen Press Hometown Weekly Staff There are certain ubiquitous rules that one expects to be followed in an elementary school. Keep your hands and feet to yourself. Raise your hand before talking. Hats off inside of the building. Which, of course, makes it all the more shocking when one walks into the Ralph Wheelock School cafeteria and notices...
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Medfield Library opens late for teens

Medfield Library opens late for teens
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By Katrina Margolis Hometown Weekly Reporter After being in college for a few years, it is hard to imagine how anyone studied without the use of a 24-hour, or at least very late-night, library. This privilege is often not afforded to high school students, who have to conform their studying to library open hours, and...
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Medfield Jazz Band holding Cuba fundraisers

Medfield Jazz Band holding Cuba fundraisers
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Friday, Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. is the ¡Hola Cuba! event in Medfield, and in addition to great Cuban food from El Oriental de Cuba in Jamaica Plain, salsa dance lessons from Meta Movements in Boston (a Cuban-inspired artist collaborative), music by the Medfield High School Jazz Band, and a drink ticket, the...
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