Category Archive for "Westwood"

Courageous conversations punctuate professional development day

During an extraordinary professional development day for Westwood teachers and staff, six students took to the stage of Westwood High School’s auditorium to talk openly about their perceptions of being students of color in a majority-white school district. Their appearance highlighted a day-long examination into race, which was guided by civil rights leader David Johns....

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By Alex Oliveira Hometown Weekly Reporter Students from the Westwood middle and high schools held their winter concert on Wednesday night in the high school auditorium. With the help of a spectacular light crew, singers, string instrumentalists, horns and percussionists transported the audience for an hour to a land of wintertime wonder. The middle school...

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Smiles as Spanish carols are attempted.[/caption] The event room at the Westwood Senior center was a wintry field of red, green and soft white on Thursday afternoon as the Westwood Garden Club hosted...

Thomas Philbin takes LBE award

Thomas Philbin, Westwood's Energy Manager, was honored at the Massachusetts State House on December 6, 2018 with a Public Sector Individual Award in the 12th annual Leading by Example (LBE) awards. These awards, given by the Baker-Polito administration, recognize those who promote clean energy and sustainable initiatives. Additionally, Philbin was awarded congratulatory citations on the LBE award...

Westwood residents contribute to Elite football success

On Dec. 2nd, at Dexter/Southfield in Brookline, MA the sixth, seventh and eighth grade Massachusetts Elite football teams won their way into the Elite 8 of the FBU National Championship. This year’s eighth grade team features six athletes with Westwood connections. Five of the players are from Xaverian (Matt Defeo, Alex Saunders, Cole Jette, Michael Oates...

Girl Scout Troop 62275, a 3rd Grade Brownie Troop in Westwood, recently visited the lab of Life Biosciences in Cambridge. The scouts were interested in visiting the lab to learn more about science, see it in action, and talk to a few female scientists about their careers, what they studied, and what they do on a...

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Before the audiences, a grizzly plot unfolds.[/caption] Last Wednesday, the Westwood Public Library hosted four mystery authors who demonstrated their talent by assembling the plot of a mystery novel on the spot....

By Linda Thomas Westwood Hometown Weekly Correspondent A ribbon of tracer fire cut through the night sky over the Green Zone in the middle of Baghdad. It was a black October night in 2005. The air was cool. Bullets were flying everywhere. No one knew where they were coming from. No one knew what was going on. One soldier,...

New Life Furniture Bank of Massachusetts will be collecting new and gently used housewares at its truck on Thursday, December 13, between 10:00-2:00 at the Keller Williams Realty office on 680 High St (Route 109) in Westwood. New Life is a 501(c)3 organization that provides high-quality, gently-used household essentials and furniture at no cost to...

Model UN Club shines at WHS

After seven years of advising the Model UN Club at Westwood High School, Chris Hilton decided this year to do something different. The faculty advisor for the group had long been one of the few with an insider’s view of what the students were doing, year in and year out; he believed that needed to...

Librarians make recommendations at Book Buzz

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Attentive crowds enjoyed the librarian’s literary insight, along with cups of hot cider.[/caption] Six Westwood librarians and fellow book lovers gathered last Thursday night for the...

Math can be hard at any age, but for Kindergarten and first grade students, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed learning new mathematical concepts for the first time. For many, this is their first foray into abstract thinking. Tools that can transform those lofty concepts into concrete processes can make all the difference. That’s exactly what...

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By Robby McKittrick Hometown Weekly Reporter For many young musicians, making it in a band is only a dream. However, for this one upcoming local country-rock band, it is making that dream into a reality. 25-year-old Westwood native Alec MacGillivray created a country-rock style band called The Ultra almost two years ago with a few friends...

By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor Three of Westwood High School’s star athletes signed their National Letters of Intent to play collegiate athletics on Monday afternoon. Siblings Sarah and Zach Conant both signed their NLIs to run cross-country at UMass, while Ali Reardon signed to play soccer at Merrimack. Reardon helped Westwood to a 6-7-5 record...

When graduates of Westwood High School’s class of 1968 gathered to celebrate their 50th reunion in October, they had a special treat that previous reunited classes didn’t: a meeting with the current WHS student body. The reunion organizers had asked co-advisors of the Student Council, Sally Patton and Heather Joyce, if they could arrange some...

Presentation addresses screen time limits

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“How do you limit social media use when it’s such a big part of how kids socialize today?” “How do you set age-appropriate limits for your children when you have kids of different ages in your home?” “Do reward systems for screen use end up encouraging more screen use by kids?” These were...

The play within a play is a dramatic device most commonly known from “Hamlet.” While this year’s sixth grade class at Thurston Middle School (TMS) isn’t tackling Shakespeare, their upcoming performance of “Myths at the Edge of the World” by Matt Webster will deliver four plays within one. The production is an extracurricular activity, but it...

Indian American Association hosts Diwali

By Robby McKittrick Hometown Weekly Reporter On Saturday, November 11, the Westwood Indian American Association hosted its fifth annual Festival of Lights, better known as Diwali. 320 members from the community came out to Westwood High School on Saturday night to share a part of the Indian culture, food, fashion, dancing, and music. “I have been trying to get...

By Robby McKittrick Hometown Weekly Reporter On Tuesday, October 30, the Westwood Council on Aging hosted its annual Halloween party for the seniors in the community. Around 80 residents, many of whom were dressed up in the holiday spirit, visited the community center to enjoy live music, great food, and socializing with friends for the holiday. The room was...

On Friday, November 23, Hale is taking part in the movement to #OptOutside with a free scavenger hunt. This self-guided adventure encourages kids, parents, friends, and neighbors to spend time together exploring nature rather than spending time and money at a shopping mall. “It’s our way of reminding people that no matter what season we’re in,...

Category Archives: Westwood

Courageous conversations punctuate professional development day

Westwood schools hold winter concert

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Garden Club holiday party warms hearts

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Thomas Philbin takes LBE award

Westwood residents contribute to Elite football success

Troop 62275 Brownies visit science lab

Murder and intrigue at Westwood Library

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Neil Martino here for a purpose

New Life to collect houseware donations

Model UN Club shines at WHS

Librarians make recommendations at Book Buzz

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Stern Math jumpstarts early learning

The Ultra living the dream

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Conants, Reardon sign NLIs

Generations meet for 50th reunion

The play’s the thing at TMS

Indian American Association hosts Diwali

Council on Aging hosts Halloween party

Hale to #OptOutside on November 23

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