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Month: December 2024

Needham History: The Hottest Meeting Ever Held in Needham
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Needham History: The Hottest Meeting Ever Held in Needham

We still have Town Meeting, but without the fistfights. Eaton’s Livery, Sale, & Boarding Stable, circa 1880. Everett Eaton maintained vehicles of various types for...

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‘Let Chubbs Stay’
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‘Let Chubbs Stay’

December 11, 2024 • A new town-wide practice restricts town employees from bringing their pets into the workplace, which has disappointed some community members. Chubbs...

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Israel-Gaza Conflict in Focus During Auchincloss Town Hall
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Israel-Gaza Conflict in Focus During Auchincloss Town Hall

December 9, 2024 • U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss, a vocal advocate for Israel, fielded several questions related to violence in the Middle East Sunday. The...

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Blue Tree Shines in its 70th Year
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Blue Tree Shines in its 70th Year

December 9, 2024 • Hundreds flocked to the Town Common Saturday night for the annual Blue Tree lighting, a tradition now seven decades in the...

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Cameron Morsberger
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A Call from the Cosmos
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A Call from the Cosmos

December 5, 2024 • Hometown astronaut Sunita Williams fielded local students’ questions from the International Space Station Wednesday morning. Above the Earth’s surface, pilot Suni...

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Needham History: Le Grand Dérangement
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Needham History: Le Grand Dérangement

Even in Arcadia, there am I. (Virgil, The Eclogues V.42) "A View of the Plundering and Burning of the City of Grimross," Thomas Davies (1758)....

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