All Wellesley Middle School students are invited to have fun playing ball after school while building social connections, life and leadership skills. Enjoy free play and fun-filled, action packed games. WHS student coaches, DJs and announcers create energetic environments to be enjoyed equally by all. Seasons conclude with bucket tournaments to celebrate school spirit and tradition.
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Wellesley Town Band seeks new members
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The Wellesley Town Band will start its fourth season with the first rehearsal of the year on Monday, September 19, at 7:00 p.m. in the Wellesley High School band room (50 Rice Street), and new members are especially welcome to come along and join in the fun.
Led by recently retired Wellesley Middle School...
Wellesley holds solidarity gathering
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By Lisa Moore
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
Late Sunday afternoon on the last weekend of the summer, members of the Wellesley Community gathered on the Town Hall green in support of a local family with hopes of bringing the community together in solidarity against hate. The family gathering was organized by the World of Wellesley (WOW)...
Cone Crawl Saturday
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Wellesley Theatre Project is excited to announce its fourth annual Cone Crawl to be held on Saturday, September 10 from noon - 5 p.m. Community supporters, students, parents, and folks wanting to have a crazy fun time visiting the best cone shops around are invited to purchase a WTP Fourth Annual Cone Crawl...
Meet the Massachusetts Horticultural Society
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By James Ensor
Hometown Weekly Reporter
When visitors enter The Gardens at Elm Bank, home of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, they would be forgiven for thinking they had left the bustling suburbs of a major city and stumbled upon the Garden of Eden. Founded in 1829, the Society is in sight of its two-hundredth...
Library brings Planetarium to Wellesley
By Lisa Moore
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
The Wellesley Free Library brought the night sky inside last week so visitors could get up close and personal with the celestial objects visible in the night sky. Kim Cooper from the Museum of Science brought the Museum’s portable planetarium, Star Lab, to the Wakelin Room for three half-hour presentations on...
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Wellesley helping seniors stay on feet
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Part of the bargain for living on Earth is that you have to deal with the laws of gravity. As you age, it tends to get more difficult to be able to stay on your feet, and gravity starts having its affects on your day-to-day life.
Just don’t...
Soccer event raises HIV education funds
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By Lisa Moore
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
Last weekend, Wellesley United Soccer Club hosted the sixth annual 24 Hours of Soccer in Wellesley. This event, which is run by volunteers each year, is a fundraiser to support Grassroot Soccer, Inc., a non-profit organization that uses the common love of soccer to empower, inspire, and educate communities...
Not Your Mother’s Game Night
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By Rama K. Ramaswamy
The origins and enjoyment garnered by playing board games dates as far back as ancient Mesopotamia to the Aztecs to classical Greece. In fact, quite a few presidents were board-gamers. Abraham Lincoln, for example, played backgammon with his sons. Founding fathers Franklin, Jefferson, and Madison were ardent players of chess....
Rotary to host teen training seminar
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By Lisa Moore
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
This September, Bob Anthony, the District 7910 Sub Committee Chief for Rotary Interact Club of Wellesley, is hosting a District Interact teen and advisor training seminar. Interact Club is a global organization for students aged 12-18 looking to make a difference in their communities and beyond, while having fun...
Book Babies beguiles Wellesley Hills Branch Library
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By Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Staff
The sound is utterly angelic when you walk through the doors of the Wellesley Hills Branch Library. It is almost whisper-quiet, at once melodic and unmistakably tender. It draws you in well before you determine its source: a group of infants and parents in the back of the room,...
Big screen in little Wellesley
By Edward Sheehan
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
On Thursday, August 11, at around 8:00 p.m., the Davis Art Museum on the Wellesley College campus sponsored a free event in which locals had a chance to see the movie “Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief.” The movie was shown on a screen outside of the museum.
This...
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WBZ meteorologist teaches Wellesley campers
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WBZ’s Chief Meteorologist, Eric Fisher, joined in on the fun at LINX Camps on Wednesday, July 20 to share his insight and expertise with science campers on the heels of the recent macro burst two days earlier, which severely hit the Wellesley area.
Fisher talked about the weather and his life as a...
DeadBeat Band brings upbeat vibe to Wellesley
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By Lisa Moore
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
The Wellesley summertime concert series came to a close last week with two final shows for the summer. DeadBeat, a Grateful Dead tribute band, were set to open the summer series in July, but were rained out. The Tuesday night rain date performance was worth the wait. The evening...
Ukulele Office Hours in Wellesley
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By James Ensor
Hometown Weekly Reporter
In the Children’s Room of the Wellesley Free Public Library, the first things someone entering the spacious area could hear were singing voices and the strumming of small fingers on ukuleles. This was the sound of the Ukulele Office Hours that have become a regular occurrence in this part...
Wellesley kids design video games
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By Edward Sheehan
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
On Monday, July 25, from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m., at the Wakelin Room of the Wellesley Library, a “Make Your Own Video Game” class took place for kids ages eight and up. The class was run by instructors from Rhode Island Computer Museum. Using Scratch, a program designed by...
Solidarity gathering against racism
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By Rama K. Ramaswamy
As part of Theodore Roosevelt’s Paris speech in 1910, he said, “it is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in...
Summer Art Workshop hosted by the WCC
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By Rama K. Ramaswamy
This summer season, The Wellesley Community Center was home to an art workshop or “kid’s day camp for art” for the very first time. This program is the brainchild of Sprague School’s faculty member, Katilin Holzapfel. Holzapfel’s aim was to construct a half-day program for grade school students from this,...
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