With construction projects still in progress at Needham High School, the 21st annual Needham Antiques Show will take place in a new venue. This year’s show will be at the John Eliot Elementary School, located at 135 Wellesley Avenue in Needham, on Sunday, November 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Attendees bringing a printed...
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Eliot School hosts Multicultural Night
On Saturday, April 28, Needham’s John Eliot Elementary School hosted it’s first annual Multicultural Night & Potluck. More than 25 Eliot families worked together to plan this celebration of the many cultures represented at Eliot, which included informative table displays (representing Colombia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Texas, Latvia, Ireland, Australia, Portugal, Jewish Culture, China, Ghana, Cabo...
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OPR School Principal Fortin looks back
By Linda Thomas
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
The day he had been waiting for was here.
That 1988 September morning, Eric Moskowitz bounded through the school yard and walked straight into his new fourth grade classroom at the John Eliot Elementary School in Needham.
The year earlier, he’d walked to school every day with a neighbor who raved that Stephen...
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Educator Stephen Fortin looks back
By Linda Thomas
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
The day he had been waiting for was here.
That 1988 September morning, Eric Moskowitz bounded through the school yard and walked straight into his new fourth grade classroom at the John Eliot Elementary School in Needham.
The year earlier, he’d walked to school every day with a neighbor who raved that Stephen...
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