The Hometown Weekly for all your latest local news and updates! Over 25 Years of Delivering Your Hometown News!  

Tag Archives: fireworks

Go forth and celebrate together

Go forth and celebrate together

Hometown Weekly Staff

Despite the threat of rain in the forecast, Memorial Field came to life once again as the Needham Exchange Club brought the Fourth of July festivities to Needham. The July 3rd festivities kicked off around 5:30pm as crowds gathered to check out the food tents, pony rides,...

Read more

Medfield recalls Independence Day

Medfield recalls Independence Day
[ccfic caption-text format="plaintext"]
By Amelia Tarallo Hometown Weekly Staff Around July 4, Americans prepare for celebrations around their communities. There are countless barbecues and pool parties, not to mention wrangling to find the perfect spot to catch fireworks. Through it all, though, everyone’s mind is fixated on the thought of how this country came to be. And what...
Read more

Walpole celebrates July 4

Walpole celebrates July 4
[ccfic caption-text format="plaintext"]
By James Kinneen Hometown Weekly Reporter While the world was focusing on the pros and cons of Donald Trump’s July 4th celebration, Walpole held its annual July 3 festivities to significantly less controversy. For over fifty years, Walpole has held its “Night Before the Fourth,” celebration and this year would be no different -...
Read more

Needham celebrates Independence Day

Needham celebrates Independence Day
[ccfic caption-text format="plaintext"]
By Amelia Tarallo Hometown Weekly Staff Each year, thousands of people come to Needham’s Memorial Park on July 3 to see some of the best fireworks in celebration of Independence Day. This year was bigger and better than ever. People picked their spots hours in advance, marking them with blankets, chairs, or even plastic tarps....
Read more

Area 4th celebrations a blast

Area 4th celebrations a blast
[ccfic caption-text format="plaintext"]
By Hometown Weekly Staff & Correspondents Perfect weather, tantalizing smells from the grill, friends and family were par for the course for this year's area July 4 celebrations. From Needham - boasting one of the nation's oldest Independence Day celebrations - to Walpole, where one of the native cognoscenti gushed about the town's "biggest...
Read more

Fireworks for the Fourth

Fireworks for the Fourth
[ccfic caption-text format="plaintext"]
By Cameron Small Hometown Weekly Intern People bedecked in various shades of red, white, and blue stand waving their arms over their heads. Others wave one hand overhead and shout into a cell-phone clutched in the other, trying to make themselves stand out from the hundreds of other people doing the exact same thing. Kids...
Read more