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WHS welcomes Spanish exchange students

If you’d wandered the halls of Westwood High School in the early part of October, you would have heard a lot of Spanish being spoken. During that time, the school hosted 13 students from Spain. Spanish teacher Eileen Flanagan and Dr. Kathy Lee, who chairs the foreign language department, arranged the trip. The students lived...

Varriale, Wolverine girls outlast Shue, Raiders

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor The Westwood High School girls varsity soccer team traveled to Dover-Sherborn on Friday afternoon for pivotal mid-season matchup with their TVL rivals. Behind a six-save shutout by senior keeper Anna Varriale, the Wolverines (4-6-2, 4-5-2) earned a big 1-0 victory to remain unbeaten their last three contests (2-0-1),...

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor The Westwood High School girls varsity soccer team traveled to Dover-Sherborn on Friday afternoon for pivotal mid-season matchup with their TVL rivals. Behind a six-save shutout by senior keeper Anna Varriale, the Wolverines (4-6-2, 4-5-2) earned a big 1-0 victory to remain unbeaten their last three contests...

Wolverine girls soccer drops heartbreaker

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor It was a tough outcome for the Westwood High School varsity girls soccer team on the pitch on Friday evening at Flahive Field as the Wolverines (1-2-0) fell, 3-0, to perennial TVL power and rival Norton. The Lancers struck first with 26:44 to play with a goal off...

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By Daniel Curtin Hometown Weekly Contributor From students getting ready for their first day of sixth grade at the Thurston Middle School to seniors preparing for their last first day in the Westwood school system at the high school, Nahatan Street bustled with first-day nerves and excitement last Tuesday. The clanging of lockers filled hallways as...

On Saturday, July, 14, Mayuri Venkatesh, a rising sophomore at Westwood High School, performed her “Bharathanatyam Arangetram” - a South Indian Classical dance debut recital - at Norwood High School. Arangetram literally means “ascending the stage.” Venkatesh dazzled an audience of nearly 400 guests during a 3-hour solo performance. Mayuri, daughter of Westwood residents Dr. Maitreyi...

WHS class of ’68 plans reunion

Plans for the 50th Class Reunion of the Westwood High School class of 1968 are now underway. More details will be provided as soon as organizers get a handle on the number of classmates and guests planning to attend. Organizers are asking members of the class of 1968 to forward this information to other classmates...

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Patrick Chung of the New England Patriots arrived in Westwood on Saturday for a clinic on Flahive Field. Photos by...

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By Emily Greffenius Hometown Weekly Intern On the evening of Friday, June 5, Westwood High School students took part in the school’s first-ever spring play, a performance of “Charlotte’s Web,” directed by Gina Cosmini and Jennifer Walsh. Drama teachers at Thurston Middle School, Cosmini and Walsh put together a show perfect for parents and their...

Westwood High School class of 2018 graduates

By Daniel Curtin Hometown Weekly Reporter Students of the class of 2018 walked across the stage in front of family, friends, and proud members of the community last Sunday to become the latest group of graduates of Westwood High School. Though their time as high school students has come to an end, Officer William Sheehan knows the...

The Rotary Club of Westwood and Westwood Youth & Family Services (WY&FS) have announced the recipients of the 2018 Recognize A Youth (R.A.Y.) Award. Three Westwood High School students and a student from Downey Elementary School were honored recently at a Rotary Club reception at the Library. The recipients, through their actions, have demonstrated an...

Prodigy music program holding open house

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The Westwood Prodigy Music Lesson Program will be hosting an open house at Westwood High School on Wednesday, June 6. The event will run from 5:00-7:30 p.m., and will feature a number of student performances, a band and string instrument "petting zoo,” instrument rentals, tours of the recently updated WHS music practice facilities, a...

The Westwood Young Women Club's annual Touch-a-Truck event will be held Saturday, June 9, from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. at Westwood High School. The day of activities will feature bounce houses, a petting zoo, train rides, crafts, food, and of course, lots of trucks and vehicles - even a helicopter. The event will be...

Lyons, Antonucci lift Wolverines past Raiders

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor Entering Friday, it had been quite some time since the Westwood High School varsity boys lacrosse team defeated rival DS; five years, to be exact. Off to one of their best starts in program history, the Wolverines wrote the latest chapter of their exceptional beginning to the 2018...

Antonucci, Wolverines best Mastrobuono, Raiders

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Thurston Middle performs amazing musical

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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter Thurston Middle School’s seventh and eighth grade students may be young, but they are bursting with talent. They proved that with their performances of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at Westwood High School from April 5 to 7. The middle school thespians followed the script of Tim Rice and...

Larkin named interim skipper at Westwood

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor Coming off an incredible Cinderella run all the way to the Division II South finals as a No. 11 seed in 2017, the Westwood High School varsity baseball team enters the 2018 season with high hopes. Following the conclusion of last season, however, Westwood head coach Jimmy Vanaria...

By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter When you go to see a play, there’s a moment that you spend sitting in utter darkness; it’s those few seconds that come after the house lights go out and before the curtain opens, cuing the stage lights to come on. During those fleeting moments, what are you thinking about? In Westwood...

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WHS senior Gabriella Heaney-Secord has won the MetroWest 3-point shootout in support of cancer research. The shootout was a fun event in which over 110 middle school and high school students came out to compete in a game they love, all while raising funds to support a worthy cause. The fundraiser is part...

Westwood girls victorious on senior night

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By Michael Flanagan Hometown Weekly Sports Editor Following a hard-fought comeback that resulted in a mere one-point overtime loss to rival Holliston on Friday, the Westwood High School girls varsity basketball team returned home to square off against non-league foe, Needham, on Sunday evening as part of the Riley Winter Classic. Sunday’s game also happened...

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WHS welcomes Spanish exchange students

Varriale, Wolverine girls outlast Shue, Raiders

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Varriale, Wolverine girls outlast Shue, Raiders

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Wolverine girls soccer drops heartbreaker

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Westwood returns to school

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Westwood’s Venkatesh ascends the stage

WHS class of ’68 plans reunion

Patrick Chung leads clinic on Flahive

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WHS students spin ‘Charlotte’s Web’

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Westwood High School class of 2018 graduates

Rotary announces R.A.Y. Award winners

Prodigy music program holding open house

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Touch-a-Truck on June 9

Lyons, Antonucci lift Wolverines past Raiders

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Antonucci, Wolverines best Mastrobuono, Raiders

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Thurston Middle performs amazing musical

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Larkin named interim skipper at Westwood

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‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ a lively tale

Gabriella Heaney-Secord, 3-point champ

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Westwood girls victorious on senior night

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