A bright Diwali in Dover
By Amelia Tarallo
Hometown Weekly Staff
The Caryl Community Center was lit up on November 9. Tables were covered in flickering electric candles. Strings of fairy lights wrapped around poles and slithered up stair railings. Colorful saris covered the walls, serving as decorations to the normally blank walls. Other decor was carefully placed around the...
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Seniors sway to swing band
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By Amelia Tarallo
Hometown Weekly Staff
It’s not every day that people get a chance to get up and dance to real swing band.
On Tuesday, June 25, visitors at the Needham Center at the Heights were ready to enjoy their rooftop deck and break out their grill, before inclement weather put a damper on...
Withrow teaches kids about writing tools
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
On Tuesday afternoon, Steven Withrow visited the Wellesley Library to teach a small group of kids all about ways poets and authors play with language to describe things without using pictures. Withrow, a teacher, poet and author of “A Poem is a Chameleon,” came from Falmouth to teach...
Moving Company readies ‘Footnotes’
By Rama K. Ramaswamy
Dance, by its nature, is an art form and a form of recreation. It's other things as well, of course: at its most basic, it offers storytelling. At its best, it offers expressions of emotion synchronized with rhythm, as well as symbolic gestures that conjure spirituality in an invitation to marvel at...
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