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Runners Hit the Streets for Annual Thurston Fun Run

Runners of all ages ran the two-mile course on Sunday.

Athletes of all ages took part in the Seventh Annual Thurston 2-Mile Fun Run on Sunday, an event sponsored by the Thurston Middle School Parent Teacher Organization. The race took runners on a two-mile loop, starting at the Westwood Senior Center and stretching through the neighborhoods of Nahatan Street, Clapboardtree Street, Olde Carriage Road, Wagon Road, Wellington Drive, Colburn Street, Ellis Street, Church Street, and Baker Street. The run lasted a little more than a half hour, finishing back at the Senior Center with a giant inflatable finish line, where music, refreshments, and prizes awaited the runners. Cara Henderson was among the many volunteers for the event, and it wasn’t her first time. “I haven’t (volunteered) every year, …

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Stonehill Professor Remembers Pearl Harbor at Westwood Senior Center

Senior residents reminisced about the infamous event nearly 70 years ago.

Westwood senior citizens attended a lively discussion Thursday in remembrance of the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. The lecture, held at the Westwood Senior Center, featured Gary Hylander, a professor of history at Stonehill College, who reminisced about the events that led up to the infamous attack on of December 7, 1941. "The war in the Pacific began in the air at Pearl Harbor," Hylander said. "And it ended in the air at Hiroshima and Nagasaki." Hylander, who has spoken previously at the Senior Center, noted that this past spring marked the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II. His lecture Thursday gave an overview of increasing tensions between America and Japan leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, and he spent …

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Westwood Summer Concert Series Wraps up July 4th Weekend

The Westwood Community Swing Band closed out July 4th Weekend with a concert at the Westood Senior Center.

Westwood residents were treated to an evening of swing music Monday night to conclude July 4th weekend. Festivities started at 6:30 p.m. at the Westwood Senior Center, as families gathered together to relax on blankets and enjoy the soothing tunes of the Westwood Community Swing Band. For more than 20 years, the brass band and its female vocalist, have blown life into the big band style. One of the songs of the evening was "Body and Soul," a song originally written by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton and Johnny Green in 1930, and since then has been played by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Carly Simon and Frank Sinatra. One of the more popular renditions, though, was recorded by Coleman Hawkins in 1939. The band also …

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