Category Archive for "Needham"

Mitchell-Broadmeadow annual parents-teachers hoops game

The annual Mitchell-Broadmeadow parent-teacher basketball game will be played in front of hundreds of screaming and adoring students and families on Friday, May 6. The game will be at Needham High School gym. Players are sneaking in some pre-game practice time, and returning coaches Rich Shaw and Mike Eisenstadt have been looking forward all year...

The Needham School Committee will hold a presentation and public hearing on Full-Day Kindergarten at its meeting on Tuesday, May 17 at 7:00 p.m. in the Broadmeadow School Committee Room. The Full-Day Kindergarten Study and Planning Committee Report is the culmination of research and analysis the Committee has undertaken since it convened in November 2014....

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18-year-old Needham resident Patrick Caron ran his first Boston Marathon in 2:46:59 and raised over $3,000 for The Boston Bulldogs Running Club. The Bulldogs is a co-ed 501(c)3 non-profit running club established to reach out to all those who are adversely affected by addiction - those who are battling addiction and in recovery,...

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A journey that began with the 1998 capping of Needham’s landfill and continued through over a decade worth of studies and town meetings has been completed. The Town of Needham hosted a grand opening ceremony for its 3.5-megawatt solar array sited on the town’s capped landfill on Monday, April 25th. The ceremony was held at...

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By Geena Matuson Hometown Weekly Staff On Sunday, April 10, a fashion show was held at Needham Town Hall, but this was no ordinary fashion show. Now in its fourth year, the Needham Community Council held its annual fashion show with the theme “Needham Organizations.” All of the models represented different community groups, such...

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The Wellesley Society of Artists, Inc. (WSA) and the Needham Art Association (NAA) are jointly sponsoring an art demonstration by noted artist, Robert Noreika. Mr. Noreika will demonstrate a painting from start to finish, done in watercolor, on Thursday, May 5 at the Wakelin Room of the Wellesley Free Library, 530 Washington Street, Wellesley. Refreshments...

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As part of its 100th anniversary celebration of providing library services to the people of Needham at the corner of Highland and Rosemary on April 30, the Needham Library is asking its users, “Why do you love your library?” Is it the staff, the collections, the building, the open space, or some...

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By Douglas McCulloch Hometown Weekly Staff A dedication ceremony was held last week to officially dedicate a memorial at Rosemary Lake in honor of long-time Needham High hockey coach John Chambers. A plaque was installed and the area was officially named “Chamber’s Cove” in honor of Chambers. The plaque sits on the site of Chambers’ first...

Needham resident lobbys for Alzheimer’s research

[ccfic caption-text format="plaintext"]Katherine O’Malley of Needham joined over 1,200 other advocates from across the nation in Washington D.C., at the Alzheimer’s Association Advocacy Forum on April 4-6. O’Malley was just nine years old when her grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. She lost her grandmother to the disease in 2010. She is an active volunteer with the...

Needham Tenacre student stand out in writing contest

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Six Tenacre fifth graders—five Wellesley residents and one Needham resident—were honored for their essays in the 2016 Will McDonough Writing Contest. The Tenacre students were chosen from among thousands of entries across the state. In the fifth grade category, Tenacre’s Eli Helzberg (Wellesley) won first place, and Jack Abbrecht (Wellesley) won second place. Louis...

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By Douglas McCulloch Hometown Weekly Staff A large tree came crashing down onto a home in Needham last Thursday. The tree fell onto a single-family home at 62 Noyes Street during a period of heavy rain and strong wind in the afternoon. The home, which dates back to 1877, is currently up for sale, and...

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By Stephen Press Hometown Weekly Correspondent You've seen them around town or perhaps at the end of your street. The "FIRE HYDRANT FLUSHING" signs are like the crocuses of the public works world, heralding the start of every spring with their appearance. Perhaps you've taken them for granted for years, knowing only that they exist,...

As Seasons Change, Residents Return to Charles River Peninsula

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By Stephen Press Hometown Weekly Correspondent "This is sort of a hidden place," Molly Ladd said as she calmly escorted a legion of leashed dogs into the back of her SUV. "Not many people know about it." Ms. Ladd, a visitor from Brighton, was one of a small handful of people who had stopped by...

Needham Library to Celebrate Location’s 100th Anniversary

[ccfic caption-text format="plaintext"] By Josh Perry Hometown Weekly Staff A few years ago, the Needham Library celebrated the 125th anniversary of the library system being introduced to the town. This April, the library will celebrate another important milestone, when it hosts a 100th anniversary party honoring the date that the library moved to its current location on the...

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...

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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...

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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,...

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