During the inaugural season of Major League Ultimate, the Boston Whitecaps competed at their home field in Framingham on Sunday against the DC Current. Ultimate is a sport similar to soccer during which players try to pass a Frisbee toward end zones to score. The Whitecaps defeated the Current 24-13, putting the team at 4-0 in their first season. The next home game for the Boston Whitecaps is May 18 at Bowditch Field.
Framingham High's Junior Cotillion was held Saturday, May 4 at the Sheraton. Please upload your photos! We want to see how beautiful and handsome you looked!
Members of the Framingham Police Athletic League (PALs) defeated members from the New England Patriots in a charity basketball game Monday night 98-95 at Framingham High School. During the opening ceremony, they played Taps for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. Afterwards, they asked those in attendance to sing as loud as they could during the National Anthem. It was a fun and interactive game for the crowd. When the Patriots went to the line for a free throw, they would pick a child out of the crowd to make the throw. (They gave them some free points and extra tries). The game …
Hundreds turned out on a beautiful sunny spring day to celebrate the Third Annual Earth Day Festival Saturday.
The Framingham History Center held a 50s-style sock hop Friday night at Village Hall.
Framingham children met Babs the Bunny, created bunny crafts, played Easter games and looked for eggs during the 3rd Annual Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by Framingham Parks & Recreation Saturday morning at Cushing Memorial Park. Framingham Parks & Recreation staff and volunteer hid more than 1,250 eggs and 8 special, Golden eggs very early Saturday morning. As families arrived to the third annual event, they collected a necklace which indicated which color eggs their child should find. Each child was to find six eggs and try to get one of the special Golden eggs. More than 175 families …
Boy Scout Troop 12 held its 33rd annual pancake breakfast Saturday at Plymouth Church. Thanks to Framingham Patch reader Elizabeth Kohler for this slideshow of photos. If you attended or your son participated, please add your photos too!
Those waiting in line came from three states - Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire - to get a chance to shake the hand of one of the all-time Bruins greats Derek Sanderson and have him sign his newest book. The former Boston Bruin and NHL hockey legend signed copies of his newest book at The Paper Store in Shoppers World Saturday as well as chat with fans and pose for a few photos. Sanderson's new autobiography is Crossing The Line: The Outrageous Story of a Hockey Original. The book is scheduled to become a movie too. For those unfamiliar with Sanderson's story and his legend …
Local celebrities including Jason Varitek and Rob Gronkowski modeled Neiman Marcus clothing on Thursday at an event that benefited the Framingham-based Art beCause Cancer foundation. "I'm here because my wife is a cancer survivor and once it hits you at home it's totally different," Varitek said. Unlike many charities that fund cancer research, the Art beCause foundation aims to find the environmental factors that lead to cancer. "Anytime I am able to support a great cause it's an honor," Gronkowski said during the event.
Temple Beth Am hosted a Purim Spiel Sunday at 10 a.m., followed by a Purim Carnival. A Purim Spiel is comical Jewish theatrical production, where participatnts wear costumes that depict the characters in the story in the Book of Esther. Cantor Jodi Schechtman and teen and adult members of the Temple participated in the Purim Spiel. *** Thanks to Framingham Patch reader Craig Berkson, who is a Temple Beth Am member, for the slideshow of photos. Please feel free to upload your photos too!
More than 200 people attended the preview opening of Framingham History Center's newest exhibit Shoppers World 1951-1994. Friday night at Edgell Memorial Library. The highlight of Friday's members only party was when Framingham Selectman Chair Charlie Sisitsky helped light up the old neon sign that stood high above Shoppers World. The exhibit will be open this school vacation week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. Admission is $5 adult, free for members and children. The exhibition features images, merchandise, and memorabilia that will be sure to bring you back to …
The Framingham-based Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism held its 10th Annual Flutie Bowl Monday Night at Kings in Dedham. Doug Flutie along with sports, television and radio celebrities bowled to raise money for the foundation. The Foundation, created in 1998 by Flutie and his wife Laurie, was named for their son, Doug, Jr. who was diagnosed with autism at the age of 3. He is now 21. Autism is a neurological disorder that impacts the normal development of the brain in the areas of social interaction and communication skills. Autism now affects one in 88 children in the United States. The …
The Framingham Frogs had back-to-back swim meets this weekend. On Saturday morning, the Framingham Parks & Recreation swim team defeated Norwood 466-254. On Sunday afternoon, the Frogs competed in a tri-meet with Natick and Belmont. The Frogs are made up of boy and girl swimmers from age 6 to 18. Both meets were held at Keefe Technical School's pool. *** Thanks to Rob Dupcak for these photos of the Framingham swim team. Parents and swimmers feel free to upload your photos too!
Saturday, volunteers, families, McAuliffe Charter School students, Framingham Girl Scouts and artisans were painting downtown Framingham red ... and green, blue, yellow, white, brown ... as part of the 2nd Annual Winter Wonderland Festival. Sponsored by the Framingham Downtown Renaissance organization, businesses agreed to allow volunteers, artists, families and community and school groups to paint their windows. Businesses held open houses and offered special sales and the Framingham Downtown Renaissance invited musical groups from Framingham to stroll along the sidewalks and sing holiday…
The Framingham Girl Scouts led the crowd of the town's 21st Annual Tree Lighting ceremony in a holiday sing-along in anticipation of Santa's arrival Friday night. Radio and media personality David O'Leary, a Framingham resident, was the master of ceremonies with the Framingham Girl Scouts, who traditionally sing on the steps of the Memorial Building.But Friday night's rains moved the event indoors. It didn't dampen the Scouts spirits. The Scouts sang a half dozen songs ending with Santa Claus is Coming to Town as Santa made his way into Nevins Hall. *** Parents: Please upload your photos and …
The Framingham History Center, held an old fashioned caroling session featuring the Voices of MetroWest at Historic Village Hall Sunday afternoon. Voices of MetroWest, a multi-generational community choir, had a jolly time leading the large crowd in a holiday sing-a-long. This was the first time the history center has held this holiday event. Families were encouraged to attend. Several said this was the first time they had stepped foot in Village Hall. At the event, children could craft a photo ornament, sip hot cocoa and cookies and of course, spend some time with Santa! .
Sponsored by the high school's Parent Athletic Council, the 5th Annual Holiday Marketplace attracted hundreds of shoppers and raised money for student athletes and athletic programs.
Suzanna Sarkar hosted a Kids' Halloween Ball Saturday to raise money for the Susan G. Komen's Boston 3-day for the Cure 2013 event. Her mom Joanna will participate in her fourth walk next summer, in memory of her mother and grandmother. The first-ever event held at First Parish Church in Framingham raised $500. Suzanna is a Framingham Girl Scouts. The fundraiser is very fitting as the birthday of Girl Scout founder Juliette Gordon Low is on Halloween. (Today would have been her 152nd birthday); and Low died of breast cancer.
Framingham Parks & Recreation held its annual Pumpkins in the Park event Saturday at Cushing Memorial Park. At just $5, children could paint a pumpkin, do arts & crafts, be entertained by a magician, participate in a costume parade and go on a hayride around the park. Please tag yourself and kids in the photos and feel free to upload some of your ow photos too!
Parents and teachers upload your Pumpkin Fair photos here. Thanks to Cariann Steenbruggen for getting us started, with these dozen of photos.
