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Students vote on new school name

<strong>Students vote on new school name</strong>

By Julia Beauregard
ometown Weekly Editor

Over 400 students at Deerfield and Hanlon elementary school, grades K-5, cast their vote last Friday to name their new school. Next February, the two elementary schools will join together under one new, modern roof.

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Westwood’s Shanshiry a NASA contest finalist

Westwood student Amira Shanshiry, a 4th grader at the Hanlon Elementary School, has been selected as a finalist in NASA’s nationwide contest to name the space rover that will head to Mars this year. Shanshiry is the only finalist from all of Massachusetts in the Mars 2020 “Name the Rover” contest. Over 28,000 submissions from...
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Hanlon School celebrates creativity

Hanlon School celebrates creativity
Sometimes a squiggly line is more than a squiggly line; sometimes it can be whatever you want it to be. That’s the lesson students at the Hanlon Elementary School learned during a recent event led by Hanlon first-graders in celebration of International Creativity Month. Inspired by the Antoinette Portis book, “Not A Box,” the “Celebrating Creativity” project...
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Westwood celebrates Opening Day

Westwood celebrates Opening Day
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By Laura Drinan Hometown Weekly Reporter On April 29, Islington Center was bustling with excitement. Parents and caregivers lined the sidewalks near Morrison Field and readied their phones to record the highly anticipated parade. A Westwood fire truck and police cruiser rolled by, making the hundreds of children that marched behind the vehicles visible. They...
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