Medfield High Class of 2016 graduates
Women’s Club holds senior Graduation Tea
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By Rachel Borman
Hometown Weekly Contributor
Continuing in a 46-year tradition, the Hannah Adams Women’s Club hosted a Graduation Tea on June 7. Formal invitations went out to 122 of Medfield’s finest young women - every senior girl living in Medfield and about to graduate from either Medfield High School or Tri-Country Regional Vocational Technical...
Medfield Legion baseball opens season
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By Evan Mayer
Hometown Weekly Intern
As the defending district champs, Medfield picked up right where they left off, squeaking out a 5-4 victory against Needham. On June 8, Medfield boys Legion took the field for their opening day game. It was a nail-biter from the beginning, with solid pitching from both teams.
Medfield drew...
Trip to Cuba
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By Geena Matuson
Hometown Weekly Staff
Over the last 100 years, the US and Cuba have had a rocky relationship. From the 1898 Spanish-American War ending with Spain ceding its Cuba territory to the US to the political revolts throughout the 1950s to the Cuban Missile Crisis and CIA assassination plots against Fidel Castro in...
MAP students as future architects?
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By Cameron Small
Hometown Weekly Intern
Kids love doing stuff with their hands. Babies will smear food everywhere. Toddlers may take crayons or markers to the walls. For the students in fourth to sixth grade at the Medfield Afterschool Program (MAP), it could be building a ga-ga ball pit. Or it could be building forts...
Medfield’s new comedy club
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By Cameron Small
Hometown Weekly Intern
“What do you call Chewbacca when he gets bits of chocolate in his fur?” asked one child.
“What’s Beethoven’s favorite food?” asked another.
“Why don’t seagulls fly over the bay?” questioned a third.
“Why did the dinosaur cross the road?”
These are just a few of the jokes told by the kindergarten...
Friends behind the scenes
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By Geena Matuson
Hometown Weekly Staff
‘Friends of the Library’ isn’t just a term for people who really like a good book - it’s also the name of a community organization that donates over $20,000 to Medfield Public Library annually, along with scholarship opportunities and grants, museum passes for patrons, events and more. Friends of...
Field Day takes Memorial School
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By Evan Mayer
Hometown Weekly Intern
On June 1, Memorial School hosted its annual Field Day event for students in kindergarten and first grade. Once the clock struck 12:30 p.m., shrieks of excitement were heard and smiles grew on the first graders’ faces.
Sprinting to their designated stations, students participated in 16 different activities from...
Memorial Day at the American Legion
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By Cameron Small
Hometown Weekly Intern
Due to poor weather, the Memorial Day parade this year was canceled. However, the ceremonies were still conducted at the Beckwith Post 110 American Legion. Poor weather could not stop hundreds of Medfield citizens from cramming inside to honor those who have fallen in the line of duty to...
Students ga-ga for ga-ga ball
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By Cameron Small
Hometown Weekly Intern
Over the decades, the popular game for kids to play at recess has changed. Soccer and basketball eventually gave way to tag. Tag gave way to wall ball. It seems now that wall ball has given way to ga-ga ball. Now, thanks to the Medfield Afterschool Program (MAP) Carpentry...
End-of-the-year-awards go to teachers, too
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By Cameron Small
Hometown Weekly Intern
It is that time of year when students itch to get out of the classroom and enjoy their hard-earned summer vacations. Senioritis kicks in, and teachers try to keep their students motivated with award nights, to reward the work done over the course of the year.
Most students probably...
Medfield boys drop to Wellesley
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By Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Staff
The Medfield varsity boys baseball team finished its regular season with a non-league loss to Wellesley on Friday, May 27. The Warriors were defeated by the Raiders at Sprague Field, 13-3. In losing to Wellesley, the Warriors moved to 10-7 on the season, good for third place in the...
Guarding a family cello, protecting musical roots
Medfield Pops Concert delights residents
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By Camille Kerwin
Hometown Weekly Contributor
This past Saturday, the Medfield Music Program brought its concert season to a close with a completely student run show. The annual Pops Concert is the year’s most exciting show, as students choose the concert’s theme and the music they will perform. Pops is also the music department’s sole...
TickleJuice lands at Zullo Gallery
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By Cameron Small
Hometown Weekly Intern
Launching their first CD in 2014 entitled “Roots to the Stars,” TickleJuice proclaims “they are truly stationary travelers reaching the ends of the galaxy without ever leaving the stage…” and they certainly proved themselves to be stationary galactic travelers in their performance last Friday, May 20, at the Zullo...
Heartbreaking week for boys lacrosse
By Connor Schneider
Hometown Weekly Contributor
Medfield’s varsity boys lacrosse team underwent something of a rough patch, dropping both of its games on the week. The greatest shock came in the form of a home defeat at the hands of then-#6-ranked Dover-Sherborn on May 18.
It came down to the dying seconds to determine the winner of a...
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Medfield touch-a-truck wows tots
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by Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Staff
Michelle Taylor, a volunteer with Medfield's New 'N Towne Club, surveyed the legions of happy children behind her. "A lot of excitement," she said. "Kids have been very excited to see the trucks. They're excited to get on all of them and touch them and explore them, so it's...
Medfield Green Month motors on
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by Stephen Press
Hometown Weekly Staff
"Every Saturday, there's at least one collection of something through May, and again we do it in October," said Barbara Meyer, who sits on the board of Medfield Green and the Transfer Station Recycling Committee. "We do the Styrofoam every time, as well as once sometime after Christmas."
Meyer was...
Medfield eighth graders are hoops champs
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The Medfield eighth grade boys 'A' travel team put an exclamation point on its season by clinching the Metrowest championship. For the Medfield boys, who dominated their Walpole opponents in the final by a score of 56-33, it was a fitting conclusion to a great season. The team finished the season with a...
Youngest Library Trustee in Medfield history
