As Seasons Change, Residents Return to Charles River Peninsula
Needham Library to Celebrate Location’s 100th Anniversary
Needham Churches Taking Part in Walk Away Homelessness Event
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By Josh Perry
Hometown Weekly Staff
Family Promise MetroWest will host its seventh annual 5K Walk Away Homelessness on Saturday, April 9 beginning and ending at the Natick Common. The walk starts at 8:45 a.m. and there will be events running until 11.
Among the local residents taking part in this annual event that raises...
Needham’s T-10 Competes at Super Regionals
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By Josh Perry
Hometown Weekly Staff
The Needham High robotics team T-10 (T minus 10) competed last weekend in the Super Regional East FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) competition at the University of Scranton in Scranton, Pa.
The Needham team competed against 72 other groups of high schoolers from across the Eastern U.S. to earn 24...
Needham Town-Wide Cleanup on Saturday
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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff
Needham Park and Recreation and the Needham Department of Public Works Park and Forestry Division will hold the annual Town-Wide Cleanup on Saturday, April 2 from 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Supplies will be provided to participants from 8:30-11 a.m. at the Public Services Administration...
Needham High senior is March RAY of Hope
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Amanda Lombard is a senior at Needham High and was nominated by Tracy Murphy, the Director of Volunteer Services at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital.
“At BID- Needham our mission requires a positive patient experience to remain the primary objective. Amanda’s volunteer work at the hospital has proven to be...
Hoops in the Heights benefits Needham schools
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For the sixth consecutive year, teachers and parents from Eliot and Hillside Elementary Schools met at Needham High on Friday, March 18 for an exciting game of basketball to raise money for each school’s PTC.
The gym was filled to capacity with Hillside and Eliot families decked out in...
Needham mom hosting Kids Party for JDRF
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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff
For the second year in a row, Needham resident Jana Brinkhaus has organized a Kids Dance Party at the Needham Village Club, 83 Morton St., which will be held on Friday, April 8 from 6-9 p.m.
There will be an interactive DJ, dinner,...
Needham man running for Nashoba Learning Group
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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff
Needham resident Patrick Sheehan has signed on to run in this spring’s Boston Marathon to support the Nashoba Learning Group, Inc. where his son Declan has been a student since he was 4 years old.
Declan has autism and in a note on his fundraising page, Patrick...
Needham Gives Back benefits Cradles to Crayon
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On Saturday, April 2, residents of Needham and surrounding towns will gather in the Needham High cafeteria to create a mock warehouse for the day to organize, sort and pack donations to benefit Cradles to Crayons.
This will be the eighth annual Needham Gives Back event that, according to a press...
Needham High finance class visits local bank
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Adam Cole, a math teacher at Needham High, brought two Personal Finance classes of Needham High seniors to Needham Bank for a lesson in banking.
John Whittaker and Erica McLaughlin from Needham Bank spent time talking with the students about how banks work, the different account types, the basics...
Needham High student takes third at Poetry Out Loud
By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff
Needham High sophomore Ben Cohen competed in the annual Poetry Out Loud competition for the second year in a row and took third place in the state at the Old South Meeting House in Boston on March 13.
Poetry Out Loud is a national poetry recitation competition...
Bayse to be Next Principal at Mitchell School in Needham
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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff
In early March, Needham superintendent Dr. Dan Gutekanst announced that current Newman assistant principal Greg Bayse had accepted the position of principal at Mitchell Elementary School and would take over from Mike Schwinden, who is retiring at the end of the school year.
Bayse...
Needham High Theatre presents ‘Cinderella’
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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff
More than 100 Needham High students took part in three performances of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” last weekend at Newman Elementary School.
The students brought the popular tale to life in front of packed audiences and showcased the talented actors and actresses and crew...
Needham Rotary delivers taste of spring
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April is coming, spring is near, and on Tuesday, March 15, members of the Rotary Club of Needham once again delivered spring flowers to the nursing home residents of Needham as they have done for many years.
As always the daffodil flowerpots were graciously supplied by Roche Bros. The...
BID-Needham announces Boston Marathon team
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Dora Tavel-Sanchez Luz, owner of The Farmhouse restaurant in Needham, and Needham resident Ming Cheung, a registered dietician at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital–Needham, will run the 2016 Boston Marathon® to raise money for the hospital’s new Breast Care Center.
The new center, opening later this year, will bring an...
First Baptist Needham renovating historic steeple
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First Baptist Church, Needham’s second oldest church, has reached the midway point in work to restore its historic steeple. Scaffolding and containment systems have been moved up to the bell level and base of the spire, and Yankee Steeplejack Company, Inc. (YSC) has removed the belfry’s exterior woodwork.
Professional engineers...
Needham Science Center offering spring classes
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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff
Beginning on Wednesday April 6, the Needham Science Center, based at Newman Elementary School, 1155 Central Ave., will be offering two eight-week spring courses for young students.
The “ABC Storycraft for Pre-Schoolers” program will run weekly on Wednesdays from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Newman and...
‘Forbidden Broadway’ coming to Needham theater
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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff
The Needham Community Theatre is hard at work preparing its next performance, “Forbidden Broadway: The Farce Awakens,” which will be presented on Friday, April 1 and Saturday, April 2 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 3 at 2 p.m.
The comedic revue is directed by...
Needham Spelling Bee has residents ‘buzzing’
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By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff
The Needham Education Foundation’s annual Spelling Bee was held this past Sunday in the Needham High gym and once again the event was filled with eager teams of spellers from all grade levels, local businesses, teacher and school officials, community organizations, and residents looking to prove that...
