By Amelia Tarallo
Hometown Weekly Staff
When people drive over bridges, they tend to avoid thinking about their structural safety. But every engineer knows that every bridge needs a tune-up here and there to ensure its safety. The Elliot Street has been driven over by thousands over the last 162 years since its creation, which has made...
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Donovan, Needham soccer eye redemption
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By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
By Needham’s lofty standards, the 2018 season concluded in about the toughest way imaginable: losing to arch rival Wellesley in penalty kicks on their home field in the South quarterfinals in the midst of a monsoon. In 2019, Needham will hope to rebound, and it starts at the...
Launching Scholars gives kids leg up
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Doing math in the summer and staying past the bell to do even more math during the school year, all in hopes of eventually learning calculus, is such a nightmare to most students that when a group of kids from an impoverished LA high school did it, they...
Kalmia Garden Club awards scholarships
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The Kalmia Garden Club awarded scholarships to Noah Ramos of Needham High School and William Humberstone of Norfolk Agricultural High School in Walpole. Both students are Needham residents interested in horticulture and related fields.
Noah Ramos will be attending UMass Amherst in the fall, majoring in the Animal Science program. He will be working at...
Circle of Hope receives generous grant
Circle of Hope has announced it has received a $12,000 grant from the MAXIMUS Foundation. The grant will support Circle of Hope’s mission to promote health and dignity for homeless individuals and families in Boston and MetroWest by providing clothing, toiletries, linens, shoes, and coats.
Circle of Hope is based in Needham and makes eight to...
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Local girls dominate lacrosse All-Scholastics
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By Mike Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Needham, Walpole, Westwood and Wellesley have all had incredible success in girls lacrosse over the last decade. The 2019 season was no different, as all four of these Division I powers made long tournament runs. Needham, Westwood, and reigning Division I champ Wellesley put together long tournament runs,...
Street Fair entertains Needhamites
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By Amelia Tarallo
Hometown Weekly Staff
With the sun up in an unwavering blue sky, members of the Needham and Natick communities came to Needham town common on Saturday, June 2, to enjoy the Needham Street Fair. Hosted by the Newton-Needham Regional Chamber, the Street Fair shined a bright light on local businesses, transforming the...
Thank you for Responding to Hate with Love
Dear friends and neighbors,
On Thursday, May 16th our home and Chabad Jewish Center was targeted in a despicable hate crime. The response to it by our friends and neighbors has been love.
We are extremely grateful to the first responders, the Needham police department and all of the state and federal law enforcement agencies for their...
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Needham girls track looks to postseason
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Needham and Natick faced off in a track meet on Wednesday, but the Rockets were looking to use the event to give some of their younger talent an opportunity to shine, more so than to dominate the event.
“We’re going cross conference and we just decided ahead of time...
Donato tosses gem as Rebels down Rockets
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Two of the Bay State Conference’s elite met on Thursday afternoon at Bird Middle School as reigning Division I state champ Needham traveled to square off against Walpole, a team coming off their first Super Eight trip in program history last spring.
Coming off of a tough 2-0...
Lady-Rockets stun Raiders in Reilly finals
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In the finals of the Reilly Winter Classic on February 18, the Needham and Wellesley High girls varsity basketball teams played one of the most remarkable girls basketball games in recent memory. Both teams have played against each other since sixth-grade MetroWest and in AAU, so there is a tremendous rivalry between these...
Meet Needham’s English big brother
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By Amelia Tarallo
Hometown Weekly Special Correspondent
Many towns in Massachusetts share names with with English towns. From Boston and Cambridge to Worcester and Salem, a great number of cities of the Commonwealth carry monikers that harken back to the area’s British colonial history.
Needham is one of them. When the former section of...
Needham smokes out underage tobacco use
By Amelia Tarallo
Hometown Weekly Special Correspondent
On July 1, stores in Needham will no longer be able to sell mint, menthol, and wintergreen flavored tobacco products and vape products. The restriction is the result of an effort to reduce the underage use of tobacco products.
Needham previously banned other flavors of smoking products. However, prior legislation...
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Damren, Goss, Curran backboning Wesleyan hockey
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Wesleyan University is building something special with their women’s hockey program, and three local athletes have helped backbone the Cardinals this 2018-2019 season as Wesleyan fights for a spot in the NESCAC Tournament.
Westwood native and junior forward Allie Damren, Wellesley native and senior defenseman Sarah Goss,...
History presented through postcards
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
There are lots of ways to learn about a culture by examining the remnants of its past. But while most people understand historians’ interest in things like clay pots and arrowheads, on Tuesday afternoon, Wellesley Historical Archivist Allen Ludlow taught a crowded room inside of the Needham History...
Outstanding ‘Little Mermaid’ presented in Needham
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By Audrey Anderson
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
The Needham Community Theatre presented a top-notch production of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” from November 16–25 at the Newman Elementary School Auditorium in Needham. The audience was indeed fortunate to see this fantastic production, which offered outstanding singing and acting, in addition to exciting sound and lighting effects.
Rockets outlast Raiders in instant classic
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
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The historic cemeteries of Hometown Weekly
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By Amelia Tarallo
Hometown Weekly Special Correspondent
To many, cemeteries can be haunting places, where constant reminders of mortality loom.
To others, cemeteries are places of history, like outdoor museums of sorts, free to those who choose to take a walk around them.
Different styles of engravings gives clues about how our ancestors approached death....
Haeberlein advances Raiders to state finals
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
The 2018 season has served as the perfect revenge tour for the Wellesley High boys varsity soccer team, as the Raiders ousted two of their biggest rivals, Needham and Weymouth, en route to the Division I South title.
With the South title clinched and their eyes set on a...
Temple Aliyah welcomes Craig Breslow
