Category Archive for "Westwood"

Brass band to play church fundraiser

The New England Brass Band will celebrate spring with an outdoor, family-friendly concert on Saturday, May 5, at First Parish of Westwood, to be held rain or shine. This concert is the second in a series for fundraisers to raise money to replace the church's aging piano. In only a few short months since the inception...

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter For the past five years, Westwood’s Alexis Argiros has been raising money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Thanks to her dedication and the efforts of the community, she has raised over $25,000. Although it’s a whopping amount to be able to donate to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Argiros is...

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter When Concord District Court Judge Samantha Bell Jones meets data miner Thomas Malachi, she doesn’t seem to take much of an interest in him, except for the fact that he owns a cat named Klaus. When a stranger, John Ledbetter Bell, comes in from out of town with a...

Did you know that too much screen time is harmful to your health? Experts cite excessive screen time as a cause of depression. It also hurts your eyes, disrupts your sleep, and causes gray matter atrophy in your brain. There are even new physical ailments like “text neck” and “text claw” cropping up, as we...

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter If you’ve ever turned on the television and scanned through every channel searching for something to watch, you may have come across one of the Westwood Media Center’s (WMC) channel. On the government and community channels, Westwood residents can find recordings of important government meetings, like School Committee and...

Spring welcomes wildlife to town

By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter With the arrival of spring weather, there has been an increase in news about coyotes. Just a couple of weeks ago in West Roxbury, a coyote had been filmed running along the side of a street. Coyotes are certainly present in Westwood, but Animal Control Officer Paul Jolicoeur assures residents that they...

Early Childhood Council plans portrait fundraiser

The Westwood Early Childhood Council's annual portrait fundraiser, "Portraits in the Park," will take place on Saturday, May 5, and Sunday, May 6, from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., at Sen Ki Lot. The fundraiser features professional photographer and Westwood resident Caroline Maguire. Individual or family photos will be taken outdoors for $60 to help...

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter Sheehan Elementary School students are curious children. They come to school each day with endless questions and ideas, which their teachers do their best to answer. There’s one night a year, though, where all of their curiosities converge into a celebration of science, technology, engineering, and math: the annual...

Thurston Middle performs amazing musical

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter Thurston Middle School’s seventh and eighth grade students may be young, but they are bursting with talent. They proved that with their performances of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at Westwood High School from April 5 to 7. The middle school thespians followed the script of Tim Rice and...

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter Have you ever watched chefs on Food Network chop a vegetable in the blink of an eye? It may seem like a job that only a professional chef could achieve, but Westwood and Dover’s Councils on Aging (COA) were determined to prove that anybody could possess the knife skills...

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter As seen in March, it’s not uncommon for New England to receive snowstorm after snowstorm. While playing out in the snow, shoveling driveways, and brushing off our cars, we see plows clearing the streets of snow and often hear them continuing to keep the roads safe throughout the night....

Third graders set for 1800s school day

Westwood’s third graders are gearing up for a unique experience. Each year, the Fisher School (home of the Westwood Historical Society) is transformed into an old-fashioned classroom with antique school desks and chairs, plus a dunce cap and stool. All Westwood third grade classes are then invited to an 1800s school day. Students dress in period...

By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter When you go to see a play, there’s a moment that you spend sitting in utter darkness; it’s those few seconds that come after the house lights go out and before the curtain opens, cuing the stage lights to come on. During those fleeting moments, what are you thinking about? In Westwood...

By Linda Thomas Hometown Weekly Correspondent Life was simple growing up in Damascus, Syria in the 1970s. There were fewer responsibilities. All then-12-year-old Bachar Saba thought about was summer breaks from school and the chance to be his father’s companion. It was his first taste for dentistry. Saba remembers taking his small bike to his dad’s office, riding it...

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter At the Westwood Public Library, locals crowded into the Community Room, dragging chairs from the lobby to enjoy a special concert from the New England Irish Harp Orchestra (NEIHO). The Celtic-inspired group features nearly a dozen harpers, as well as a uilleann pipes player, a fiddler, a woodwind player,...

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WHS senior Gabriella Heaney-Secord has won the MetroWest 3-point shootout in support of cancer research. The shootout was a fun event in which over 110 middle school and high school students came out to compete in a game they love, all while raising funds to support a worthy cause. The fundraiser is part...

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The Westwood Rotary and Westwood Youth & Family Services Department (WY&FS) are seeking the public’s help to identify young people in our community that have demonstrated a commitment to helping others. They would like to celebrate these individuals by honoring them with the R.A.Y (Recognize-A-Youth) award. Recipients will have distinguished themselves through their initiative...

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Marco D'Angio, Gregory Fleming, Matthew Montalto, and Sean Ross became Westwood’s newest Eagle Scouts in a Troop 3 Court of Honor on Sunday, March 11....

The Foundation for Westwood Education recently held a Fantastic Feud Game Night & Fundraiser at Dedham's Victory Grille on March 1....

Category Archives: Westwood

Brass band to play church fundraiser

CF West Fest starts successfully

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Westwood Library makes a mystery

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Westwood declares Device Free Day

WMC is a creator’s dream

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Spring welcomes wildlife to town

Early Childhood Council plans portrait fundraiser

STEM interest blossoms at Sheehan

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Thurston Middle performs amazing musical

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Westwood declares Device Free Day

COA members learn knife skills

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DPW makes daily efforts for town

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Third graders set for 1800s school day

‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ a lively tale

Smiles abound for Bachar Saba

Celtic harpers astound library goers

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Gabriella Heaney-Secord, 3-point champ

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WY&FS seeking R.A.Y. nominations

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Court of Honor lauds Westwood Scouts

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Game night raises education funds

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