For 22 years, the Needham Women's Club has hosted an annual Holiday House Tour to raise funds to support the Club’s charities. This year's tour will be an outdoor, drive-by event. The club is inviting its neighbors to decorate their homes, porches, or yards with lights, greenery, and holiday decorations to highlight the spirit of the season. Funds...
By Amelia Tarallo
Hometown Weekly Staff
Type in "Red Wing Bay" into a GPS-enabled device. You’ll get directions to a road by the Needham-Dover border. There, you will find a section of the rail trail. Turn onto the parking lot beside the Charles River and you’ll be one step closer to...
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
While the world was fretting over whether professional sports would be cancelled and season ticket holders wondering how they would occupy their Sundays this fall, some families were rooting for the return of sports for much more important reasons. For the families of special needs...
Local businesses and restaurants are banding together to encourage support from patrons during this holiday season. In an attempt to encourage shoppers to find holiday gifts through local stores, many Needham retailers have extended their hours on Thursdays. Selected restaurants are offering deals to patrons every Thursday, as well.
In...
While this tent was great for social distancing, because it can’t handle snow, it’s not going to be much help in the near future.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Now three months into the hybrid system of learning, on Saturday, the Needham School Committee...
Holiday traditions will be different this year as the pandemic continues. This year's celebration of the Needham Blue Tree lighting and accompanying lights will take place this year, without the usual celebration.
As a result, residents of Needham are urged to bring some of the festivities to their own neighborhoods....
Despite remaining in Needham during the COVID-19 pandemic, Sneider has been able to keep in contact with his sources.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Needham doesn’t have many connections to the bright lights of Hollywood. Last year, a Chris Evans movie was filmed in...
As voting continues and citizens take the time to participate in early voting and drop off their ballots, Needham residents are urged to take advantage of the red ballot box.
Mailed ballots may be dropped off in person to the big red dropbox or mailed back to the town...
A family points out which of the carved pumpkins is their favorite from the safety of their car.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
They say that in the 1950s, people fell so in love with the idea of having a car and were so...
The Needham Board of Health has provided some recommendations for celebrating Halloween this year. Using CDC guidelines, these recommendations have been carefully designed to help ensure everyone has a happy and healthy Halloween.
Those handing out candy should try to implement a one-way system, such as leaving a candy bucket...
While too dangerous for my tastes, a couple did find a very interesting spot to relax near Echo Bridge.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
You know when you watch the Masters, and right before Tiger is about to win the green jacket with a...
By Maddie Gerber
Hometown Weekly Intern
“I really missed school” admitted senior Lauren Biedron, laughing. “Wow, I never thought I would say that.”
While this may have been an unheard-of sentiment last fall, this year, many students have been itching to get back to some sense of normalcy....
The Needham Select Board has voted to extend the free parking meter program throughout town during the remainder of 2020. This program provides free parking throughout town so that patrons can enjoy local businesses and shop, without worrying about the cost of a parking meter.
"It is our hope...
By Amelia Tarallo
Hometown Weekly Staff
How often do we get to enjoy a dog show from the comfort of our own homes? When I was little, I used to sit for hours watching the countless Animal Planet dog programs. Occasionally sprinkled among them was a program in which the dogs...
A newspaper clipping from the now-discontinued Needham Chronicle that covered the first days of women registering for voting. Women had a higher turnout then men did during that first year.
By Amelia Tarallo
Hometown Weekly Staff
On August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment giving women...
It wasn’t a huge fish, but this family did successfully catch one.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Last week, people across three New Jersey counties were convinced that they had seen a UFO. Videos were taken, tweets were sent out, and amateur UFO hunters...
By Amelia Tarallo
Hometown Weekly Staff
It’s no shock that teachers will be facing an enormous number of challenges during this upcoming school year. In adapting to teaching virtual classes, changing their classroom organization and protocol to support social distancing, and even ensuring the safety of their students, teachers are...
Needham Public Health will be hosting flu clinics in September and October. Those wishing to get their flu vaccine can come to the Center at the Heights on Wednesday, September 23, from 3 p.m. until 7 p.m., and Saturday, October 3, from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. The first hour of each clinic...
Almost all of the boats opted to head away from, rather than towards the South Street Bridge.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
You know when you take young children to the beach, and you play with them in the creek or along the waterline...
A family enjoys reading 'New Shoes for Silvia,' the second book on the story walk.
By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Story walks are a newly-popular way to get kids outside, get kids exercise, and get kids to read, all at once. Essentially, pages from...
