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Dalton, Keith, Lady-Wolverines gear up

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor Coming off a 13-6-3 regular season in 2017-2018, the Westwood High girls varsity hockey team is holding themselves to a high standard heading into what appears to be an extremely promising year. Back to lead the Wolverines in 2018-2019 are a trio of senior captains in leading scorer,...
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Donohue, Wolverine hockey ready up

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor Coming off a 12-6-2 regular season in 2017-2018 that earned them the No. 7 seed in Division II South, the Westwood High School boys hockey team is looking to build off of their success from a season ago and make a deep tournament run later on this winter....
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Conants, Reardon sign NLIs

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...
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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...
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WHS welcomes Spanish exchange students

If you’d wandered the halls of Westwood High School in the early part of October, you would have heard a lot of Spanish being spoken. During that time, the school hosted 13 students from Spain. Spanish teacher Eileen Flanagan and Dr. Kathy Lee, who chairs the foreign language department, arranged the trip. The students lived...
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Varriale, Wolverine girls outlast Shue, Raiders

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor The Westwood High School girls varsity soccer team traveled to Dover-Sherborn on Friday afternoon for pivotal mid-season matchup with their TVL rivals. Behind a six-save shutout by senior keeper Anna Varriale, the Wolverines (4-6-2, 4-5-2) earned a big 1-0 victory to remain unbeaten their last three contests (2-0-1),...
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Varriale, Wolverine girls outlast Shue, Raiders

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor The Westwood High School girls varsity soccer team traveled to Dover-Sherborn on Friday afternoon for pivotal mid-season matchup with their TVL rivals. Behind a six-save shutout by senior keeper Anna Varriale, the Wolverines (4-6-2, 4-5-2) earned a big 1-0 victory to remain unbeaten their last three contests...
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Wolverine girls soccer drops heartbreaker

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor It was a tough outcome for the Westwood High School varsity girls soccer team on the pitch on Friday evening at Flahive Field as the Wolverines (1-2-0) fell, 3-0, to perennial TVL power and rival Norton. The Lancers struck first with 26:44 to play with a goal off...
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Westwood returns to school

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By Daniel Curtin Hometown Weekly Contributor From students getting ready for their first day of sixth grade at the Thurston Middle School to seniors preparing for their last first day in the Westwood school system at the high school, Nahatan Street bustled with first-day nerves and excitement last Tuesday. The clanging of lockers filled hallways as...
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Westwood’s Venkatesh ascends the stage

On Saturday, July, 14, Mayuri Venkatesh, a rising sophomore at Westwood High School, performed her “Bharathanatyam Arangetram” - a South Indian Classical dance debut recital - at Norwood High School. Arangetram literally means “ascending the stage.” Venkatesh dazzled an audience of nearly 400 guests during a 3-hour solo performance. Mayuri, daughter of Westwood residents Dr. Maitreyi...
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WHS class of ’68 plans reunion

Plans for the 50th Class Reunion of the Westwood High School class of 1968 are now underway. More details will be provided as soon as organizers get a handle on the number of classmates and guests planning to attend. Organizers are asking members of the class of 1968 to forward this information to other classmates...
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Patrick Chung leads clinic on Flahive

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[caption id="attachment_27206" align="alignleft" width="225"]Patrick Chung of the New England Patriots arrived in Westwood on Saturday for a clinic on Flahive Field. Photos by Daniel Curtin Patrick Chung of the New England Patriots arrived in Westwood on Saturday for a clinic on Flahive Field. Photos by...
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WHS students spin ‘Charlotte’s Web’

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By Emily Greffenius Hometown Weekly Intern On the evening of Friday, June 5, Westwood High School students took part in the school’s first-ever spring play, a performance of “Charlotte’s Web,” directed by Gina Cosmini and Jennifer Walsh. Drama teachers at Thurston Middle School, Cosmini and Walsh put together a show perfect for parents and their...
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Westwood High School class of 2018 graduates

By Daniel Curtin Hometown Weekly Reporter Students of the class of 2018 walked across the stage in front of family, friends, and proud members of the community last Sunday to become the latest group of graduates of Westwood High School. Though their time as high school students has come to an end, Officer William Sheehan knows the...
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Rotary announces R.A.Y. Award winners

The Rotary Club of Westwood and Westwood Youth & Family Services (WY&FS) have announced the recipients of the 2018 Recognize A Youth (R.A.Y.) Award. Three Westwood High School students and a student from Downey Elementary School were honored recently at a Rotary Club reception at the Library. The recipients, through their actions, have demonstrated an...
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Prodigy music program holding open house

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The Westwood Prodigy Music Lesson Program will be hosting an open house at Westwood High School on Wednesday, June 6. The event will run from 5:00-7:30 p.m., and will feature a number of student performances, a band and string instrument "petting zoo,” instrument rentals, tours of the recently updated WHS music practice facilities, a...
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Touch-a-Truck on June 9

The Westwood Young Women Club's annual Touch-a-Truck event will be held Saturday, June 9, from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. at Westwood High School. The day of activities will feature bounce houses, a petting zoo, train rides, crafts, food, and of course, lots of trucks and vehicles - even a helicopter. The event will be...
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Lyons, Antonucci lift Wolverines past Raiders

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor Entering Friday, it had been quite some time since the Westwood High School varsity boys lacrosse team defeated rival DS; five years, to be exact. Off to one of their best starts in program history, the Wolverines wrote the latest chapter of their exceptional beginning to the 2018...
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Antonucci, Wolverines best Mastrobuono, Raiders

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor Entering Friday, it had been quite some time since the Westwood High School varsity boys lacrosse team defeated rival DS; five years, to be exact. Off to one of their best starts in program history, the Wolverines wrote the latest chapter of their exceptional beginning to the 2018...
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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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