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Game night provides friendly competition

Game night provides friendly competition
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By Amelia Tarallo Hometown Weekly Staff Game night is a time-honored tradition for friend groups and families alike. From basic card games, like go fish, to more complicated games like Monopoly, people get excited when it comes to playing a good game with their closest compatriots. Twice a month, one group meets at the Dover Library...
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VFW hosts dinner for paralyzed vets

VFW hosts dinner for paralyzed vets
The Needham Veterans of Foreign Wars, Lt. Manson H. Carter Post 2498, hosted its annual dinner and game night for Boston-area paralyzed veterans at the Post’s building on Junction Street Tuesday. Needham VFW has held this event for more than twenty years.
 Twenty-three paralyzed and disabled veterans from the Brockton VA hospital, accompanied by nurses and...
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Dover Library hosts game night

Dover Library hosts game night
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By Katrina Margolis Hometown Weekly Reporter While many libraries are renowned for their children’s events, sometimes the events for other ages can be overlooked. The Dover Town Library is no exception to this. While they host a variety of wonderful programs for kids, including crafts and story times, the Library also offers events for those...
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Not Your Mother’s Game Night

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By Rama K. Ramaswamy The origins and enjoyment garnered by playing board games dates as far back as ancient Mesopotamia to the Aztecs to classical Greece. In fact, quite a few presidents were board-gamers. Abraham Lincoln, for example, played backgammon with his sons. Founding fathers Franklin, Jefferson, and Madison were ardent players of chess....
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