With Puffs, live theater returns to Dover-Sherborn High School
Taylor Melenovsky, Dover-Sherborn High School senior
“HI!!” A familiar greeting echoes across the stage as a troupe of zany and socially distanced characters introduce themselves as the Puffs. Often overshadowed by the other houses (the “Braves, “Snakes” and “Smarts” (do you see where I’m going with this), the Puffs tell their own side of this popular wizarding story through hilarious and clever references intended to dodge copyright infringement.
Whether you are a fan of the universally loved story of a certain wizard boy with a scar on his head or not, Puffs is sure to capture your heart and entertain you just the same. Retold from this fresh perspective, it communicates a powerful message around owning one’s own story and identity while cracking jokes along the way.
Five Things for Dover, Sherborn and Medfield: Relay for Life update
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1 The Friends of the Dover Council on Aging, with support of the Dover Council on Aging, are sponsoring the following three-part Lifetime Learning series on “Painters of Modern Life: Transatlantic Impressionism.” The series will be held Thursdays, 1:30-3 p.m., May 13, 20 and 27. Cost is $30.
Classes conducted on Zoom: Instructions on how to join these meetings will be e-mailed to participants.
Registration forms are available online at http://www.coafriends.org/.
2 The Medfield Animal Shelter’s annual low-cost rabies vaccination clinic is scheduled for April 24, and will take place at the shelter. Pets from all towns are welcome. Cats will be vaccinated from 9-10:30 a.m. and dogs from 10:30 a.m.-noon. The cost is $10 per pet and can be paid by cash or check. Dogs must be on leashes and cats must be in carriers. Seniors age 65 and over can receive free rabies vaccines for their pets. Medfield d
Sullivan s Travels: Local Relay for Life takes to the road this year
This year’s Relay for Life of Natick, Framingham, Sherborn, Ashland and Holliston is hitting the road.
According to Lewis Glass, one of this year’s organizers, plans call for a “Rolling Relay,” starting at Dover-Sherborn High School, then on to Natick with a finish in Framingham.
There will be an FM transmitter to broadcast the ceremonies in each location and “on the road” between locations.
Organizers are also planning a modified luminaria ceremony using lawn signs, as well as live entertainment along the route, a car decorating contest, and a scavenger hunt.
Dover-Sherborn students conduct shoe drive for St. Francis House
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Liza Birmingham, Cecelia Fielding and the junior class officers from Dover-Sherborn High School gathered 600 pairs of shoes, boxed them up, and delivered to the homeless shelter St. Francis House in Boston on Feb. 18.
The Shoe Drive has been ongoing, and the students got permission to leave bins all over town, from churches to gyms, nursery schools, elementary and middle schools.
They are still collecting sneakers/cleats only, to ship to California to Angel Bin (nonprofit), and the students will receive money toward their 2022 prom. It’s not even this year’s prom as they are affected by the pandemic once again this year.