By Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Editor
Let me set the scene.
It’s a quiet Sunday morning in late November, the weekend after Thanksgiving. It’s early and it’s
chilly. I’ve headed out for a walk along a pond.
I can hear the silence as I wander the edge of the water. This is a trail I’ve traveled hundreds...
By Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Editor
Throughout the entirety of the autumn, I noticed a trend during my walks in the woods.
It seemed every time I turned a corner in the vicinity of a body of water, I found a heron, typically a great blue heron, staring...
By Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Editor
Just last week, I was looking out the window of the Hometown Weekly newsroom when the approach of a ride-on lawnmower flushed a rabbit from under some brush coverage and into the open. The freshly-exposed critter seemed annoyed, but not all that put out; it...
Sherborn’s Pine Hill Cemetery is very much alive.
By Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Editor
Among nature preserves and hidden wooded locales in the middle of nowhere, we often forget that all of our communities feature quiet, green spaces - typically centrally placed ones - that...
The gray fox's face is flatter, and could perhaps be described as more feline than that of a red fox.
By Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Editor
The yips grew closer and closer. Two distinct individuals could be discerned, as though they were in conversation. As...
