By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
These days, the communities of Medfield and Wellesley are breeding grounds for many big-name lacrosse players, with Maggie McCarthy, Jack Cahill, Michael Bomes, Grant Chryssicas, and John MacLean being some of the most recent and notable Warrior and Raider lax alumni.
However, two more name that have already...
By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
For the past four years, Wellesley High School’s seniors have shared memories of walking the halls together, going to class with one another, and bonding during extracurricular activities. The time has come, though, for the class of 2018 to part ways. Before they head off across the world to...
By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
After dropping back-to-back games to rivals Walpole (8-7 in overtime) and Needham (14-8) in early-May, the Wellesley High School boys lacrosse has made the proper adjustments and gotten hot at the perfect time.
On Sunday, the Raiders (12-4, 7-3) fought their way to a big 9-7 road victory...
Encouraged by the audience response to its magic show of last May in the Wellesley Wonderful Weekend, Boston Ring of the International Brotherhood of Magicians (IBM Ring 122) has decided to do another stage show that will again be raising money for the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund, headquartered in Wellesley. However, this time, the stage show...
By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
The Wellesley High School girls varsity lacrosse team welcomed Milton last Tuesday afternoon for a key Bay State Conference showdown.
Behind a stellar performance by senior captain and Northwestern commit Maddy Balter (five goals, two assists), along with four goals from fellow senior captain and Stanford commit Caitlin Chicoski,...
Wellesley High School is set to present its spring musical, the Tony award-winning “Peter and the Starcatcher.” Adapted from Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s best-selling children’s novel, “Peter and the Starcatcher” is a highly imaginative prequel to J.M. Barrie’s original Peter Pan story. For children, it is a fresh take on a familiar...
By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Following a rainout on Thursday, the defending Division I South and Eastern Mass champion Wellesley High School baseball team hosted Barnstable at Sprague Field on Friday afternoon for a pivotal early-season showdown.
And with it came some history.
With the game remaining tied after seven full, sophomore catcher...
By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
It was about as complete of a performance as a lacrosse team could have on Wednesday afternoon for Wellesley High School against Braintree.
The Raiders (4-0) saw pure and utter domination at the faceoff X by sophomore midfielder Teddy Komjathy, who won 21 faceoffs on the afternoon. Meanwhile,...
By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
In the front window of Wellesley’s Clever Hand Gallery, dozens of handmade goods caught the attention of passersby. Behind the goods were several posters picturing the faces of the students of Wellesley High School’s intensive ceramics class and intensive jewelry/metals class – the creators of the fantastic pieces in...
By Rama K Ramaswamy
The second Annual CreateAthon, a Wellesley Education Foundation event, was held at the end of March at Wellesley High School. The event was free due to generous sponsorship.
At the CreateAthon, high school and middle school students who live or go to school in Wellesley were tasked to work in...
By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
The 2018 season will be the beginning of a new era for Wellesley High School boys lacrosse with new head coach Jim Connolly.
A 13-5 regular season earned the Raiders the No. 6 seed in Division I South last spring. Wellesley took down No. 11 Mansfield, 10-9, in...
The Clever Hand Gallery will showcase work by students from two intensive art classes at Wellesley High School. This is the eighth year of collaboration between the local artisans’ cooperative and the talented students.
Students in Shayla Vines’ Intensive Metals class studied the work of professional artists working as jewelers, metalsmiths and sculptors, and...
This year's CreateAthon, a Wellesley Education Foundation event, will be held on March 24 at the Wellesley High School from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Wellesley High School. At the CreateAthon, high school and middle school students who live or go to school in Wellesley will work in teams to create an app from...
By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Coming off of a hard-fought 3-2 first-round victory over No. 16 seed Winchester on March 3 and after being forced to wait two days for a makeup game that was supposed to occur last Wednesday, the No. 1 seed Wellesley High School girls varsity hockey team took to...
The Wellesley High School CyberPatriot team has finished No. 1 in Massachussets.
Wellesley's team, comprised entirely of juniors, competed in the highest division of the National Youth Cyber Defense Competition, landing in first place (above such other schools as Mass. Academy of Math and Science and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory).
The mission of CyberPatriot is to...
By Lisa Moore
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
Wellesley High School recently presented “Brothers Sing On!”, an all-male a cappella festival hosted by the Boston Saengerfest Men’s Chorus. This unique concert brought together talented male singers young and old, all united by a shared love of a cappella music.
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On Saturday, January 20, students from the Wellesley High School Music Department auditioned for the All-State Music Ensembles at Shrewsbury High School. Students qualified for these auditions by scoring in the top half of the Eastern District Auditions held in November. The musicians auditioned with approximately 950 students from across Massachusetts for one...
By Lisa Moore
Hometown Weekly Correspondent
The annual Wellesley Cotillion was held on Saturday night, January 6, in the Metcalf Ballroom at Boston University’s George Sherman Union Building. Cotillion, since the 1940s, has been an annual rite of passage for Wellesley residents in their junior and senior years of high school.
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By Michael FlanaganHometown Weekly Sports Editor
When Rocky Batty stepped down from his head coaching position at Wellesley High School back in August, the conversation quickly shifted from “thank you, coach Batty” to who would take over the reigns.
Wellesley, a program that is known for residing in the top tier of the Bay State Conference year...
While seniors were home for Thanksgiving break, Needham Bank recognized the Wellesley girls golf team’s achievement of winning the state championship by presenting jackets to the team at a presentation in the school’s atrium. The entire team was in attendance, along with coach Ken Bateman, Needham Bank’s Wellesley Branch Manager, Stephen Walls, and the Bank’s...
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