By Katrina Margolis
Hometown Weekly Reporter
There is nothing like a little rivalry to rev up passion and team spirit.
On Friday, May 5, parents, teachers and staff faced off once again in the annual Mitchell vs. Broadmeadow basketball game. Held at the Needham High School gym, the event was attended by hundreds of screaming...
By Katrina Margolis
Hometown Weekly Reporter
The first word that came to mind after seeing the “Icons of the Civil Rights Movement” exhibit was “striking.”
Inside of First Parish Needham sat 30 original paintings depicting civil rights icons in the tradition of Russian icons. The paintings were done by Pamela Chatterton-Purdy and are also featured in...
The Touchdown Club of Needham is offering a chance to congratulate NHS seniors with Balloon-A-Grams.
Members of the community are welcomed to send a balloon - or a bunch, should they so choose - to a graduating senior, along with a personalized message. The blue and gold mylar balloons are $9 apiece.
Balloon-A-Grams will be delivered on...
On Sunday, April 30, Needham Baseball & Softball celebrated its opening day with a parade and festivities.
And they got some special help from a uniquely qualified individual.
Boston Red Sox DH/1B Hanley Ramirez, fresh off from hitting a mammoth, 463-foot home run less than 24 hours before, was in Needham to share the...
By Katrina Margolis
Hometown Weekly Reporter
High school seniors are some of the busiest people in society. Not only are they active in school - taking classes and doing all the work that goes along with that - but throughout the first part of the year, they are working on college applications and their future...
Needham High School senior Eva Marie Papantoniou has been named April's RAY of Hope.
Papantoniou has been a volunteer in several Needham Youth Services programs, in particular the VIP mentoring program. “She has made an individual impact in the life of the child she mentors, as she has been a weekly positive influence and...
By Katrina Margolis
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Bethany Jakubson, the owner of Amazing Animal Ambassadors, had wanted to work with animals since she was three years old.
Today, she not only is able to work with them, but she shares the joy of animals with audiences all over the place.
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By Katrina Margolis
Hometown Weekly Reporter
When tickets went on sale for Billy Luce, Jr.’s production of “Spring Awakening,” all three shows sold out in four hours. Luce, a Needham native and senior at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst has certainly made his mark on the UMass community - his show was so popular that people...
By Katrina Margolis
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Throughout middle and high school, it can be hard for students to understand the importance of what they’re learning in a larger context. High Rock School puts in an exceptional amount of effort into bringing in outside speakers to help students make connections between their curriculum and potential careers...
[caption id="attachment_18067" align="alignright" width="300"] Nancy Walton’s ‘Through the Trees.’ Walton will be one of more than 30 Needham artists participating in Needham...
By Linda Thomas
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
Ah, that sense of wonder.
Space: The final frontier.
The first episode of the original “Star Trek” TV series aired in 1966.
But it wasn’t until the summer of 1968 when, at the age of 9, Gay Ellen Dennett got to stay up late to watch “The Tholian Web,” the...
By Katrina Margolis
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Tara Sullivan believed that when she grew up, she would follow in her parents’ footsteps to become an aid worker.
As Sullivan likes to mention, though, “plan A” does not always work in.
In fact, “plan A” very rarely works out.
Instead, Sullivan works as a writer. So far,...
The Needham Women’s Club and The Needham Community Council hosted Dancing with the Needham Stars on Saturday, April 8. The event took place at Moseley’s on the Charles in Dedham. Fourteen Needham Stars paired with dancing professionals from Fred Astaire Studio in Dedham provided a night of entertainment for all. Over 550 guests...
By Katrina Margolis
Hometown Weekly Reporter
On April 8, the Needham Historical Society celebrated its 35th Pansy Day. April is, in fact, Pansy Month in Needham, and the pansy is the official flower of the town. On the day, the colorful flowers lined the entirety of the front walkway to the Historical Society, and inside,...
By Katrina Margolis
Hometown Weekly Reporter
A Kids Dance Party might just sound like an event for local kids to find something to do. However, the dance party on April 7 was a fundraiser for JDRF, the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes research. This year, the event’s third year running, the party raised...
On Monday, April 17, 19-year old Needham resident Patrick Caron will make the journey from Hopkinton to Boston as part of the 121st Boston Marathon. Patrick is running and fundraising his second Boston Marathon for the Boston Bulldogs Running Club, a local non-profit organization with a unique mission: to promote wellness and recovery in a...
By Katrina Margolis
Hometown Weekly Reporter
On Tuesday, March 28, the Needham Diversity Initiative held an event titled “The Evolution of Gender.” This event, co-sponsored by The Needham Free Public Library, was one of the first of its kind. An exploration of perceptions, definitions, and evolutions of gender, the event welcomed any and all in...
On Monday, April 17, Chris Blood will be running the Boston Marathon for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Chris will be running for Dana-Farber because last year his family lost a great man to cancer.
John Bergstrom, a veteran runner of the Boston Marathon, was the rock of his family and a guiding force in...
On Sunday, April 2, 13 groups of Needham High School students competed in the National History Day (NHD) States Competition, among which 3 groups qualified for the NHD Nationals Competition.
Each year, Needham High School sophomores participate in NHD, a nationwide history competition in which students focus on presenting historical information on a specific topic. As...
As the NCAA began its yearly basketball tournament, Needhamites were following suit with their own version of March Madness.
On Friday, March 17, members of both the Hillside and Eliot Elementary communities gathered together for one of their most beloved traditions: Hoops in the Heights, the annual Eliot-Hillside basketball game. The event, which pits...
