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Watch 'Quiz Show' Finals, Get Some Plants and Run a 5K This Weekend

Get a look at the quick info about some of the local events happening this weekend in Hamilton and Wenham, including a plant sale and road race in Hamilton on Sunday and a High School Quiz Show viewing party on Sunday.

The upcoming weekend in Hamilton and Wenham includes a plant sale and road race in downtown Hamilton on Saturday plus a group bikeride on the new rail trail through Wenham. Get the when and where below for those events and other happenings in Hamilton and Wenham. Remember, each Friday morning Hamilton-Wenham Patch’s “Get Out” weekend planner brings you a quick guide to local events and activities. There’s also a lot of other activities going on, including farmstead tours at Appleton Farms plus the Hamilton Police Memorial Sunday event and the always popular Touch-a-Truck event in Beverly at the high school. Gordon College will also hold its graduation on Saturday outside in the Quad and on Sunday about 1,000 bicyclists will take part in …

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PHOTOS: Little League Season Kicks Off with Parade, Festivities

Hundreds of Little League players took part in Saturday's opening parade for the Hamilton-Wenham Little League.

Saturday morning may have started out gloomy, but hundreds of Hamilton and Wenham youth certainly didn't notice. Children from 40 teams spread over five different leagues took to the streets, in the annual Hamilton-Wenham Little League Opening Day parade. The kids traversed more than one mile, starting from the Buker Elementary School onto Perkins Street, down Main Street, left onto Railroad Avenue and finishing on Union Street. The procession was led by fire engines and police cruisers from both towns and antique cars. The ceremony - emceed by Hamilton-Wenham Little League President Len Dolan - on the crisp looking, beautifully manicured field began with a baton twirling routine by Winthrop Elementary School third-grader Samantha Bucci (…

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Weekend Calendar is Packed With Chicks, Shredding and the Run for the Roses

A look at local events happening this weekend in Hamilton and Wenham.

We are about to kick off one of the most action-packed weekends we’ve had locally in a long time. While we bring you five suggested events, ranging from an all-female road race to a chance to see baby chicks, there’s also town voting in Wenham on Saturday morning and Wenham Town Meeting on Saturday afternoon, plus the Friends of Buker Elementary School are holding its plant sale during morning voting. And the Little League opening day parade will make its way from Buker up through downtown Hamilton and back to Cheeseman Field at Pingree Park on Saturday morning. Then on Sunday afternoon, there’s a charity concert for Acord Food Pantry at the First Church in Wenham. Also, looking for a place to recycle your Styrofoam? You can do it for free…

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Patton Parks Lights Could Stay on Until 10 p.m. [POLL]

The lights over the basketball and tennis courts at Patton Park could stay on until 10 p.m. if the zoning board grants a permit.

The lights at Patton Park could stay on until 10 p.m. to allow tennis and basketball games to go later on summer evenings under a plan that’s looking for zoning approval on Wednesday. The proposal to extend the end time of the lights from 9:15 p.m. to 10 p.m. will go before the Hamilton Zoning Board of Appeals on Wednesday night at Hamilton Town Hall. The board meets at 7 p.m. It has the support of Hamilton-Wenham Recreation Commission and Hamilton Board of Selectmen. Just recently, a feature was added to the lights – which were installed last year – above the tennis courts and basketball court to allow them to be controlled by anyone who shows up to play. Recreation Director Sean Timmons said anyone can press a button on the Asbury Street…

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How Hamilton-Wenham Runners Finished in the Boston Marathon

Here's a look at how runners with local ties did in Monday's Boston Marathon.

Amy Ahearn was the top finisher in Monday’s 116th Boston Marathon with ties to the two towns. Ahearn is a Wenham native who currently lives in Washington, D.C.  Ahearn crossed the finish line in three hours, 24 minutes and 29 seconds. That put her in 2,292th place overall and the 186th female ages 18-29. The results for local runners will be added and updated as information comes in.

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Girls Tennis Looking to Better Its 2011 Finish

Four players return this year from the high school girls' tennis team that had a Div. 3 North run that ended with a semifinal loss in 2011.

After the Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School girls' tennis team advanced to the Div. 3 North semifinals last season, coach Claudia Hawks said, “Being in the semis of states was icing on the cake.” Now the Generals boast its Nos. 1 and 3 singles players from last year back for another season, as well as both players from the No. 2 doubles team. The expectations are high and the outlook positive. Senior Charlotte Horton leads the way as the top singles player on the team, and possibly in the Cape Ann League. She will serve as co-captain with Carson Smiley. Sophomore Caroline Gribbell, who played at No. 3 singles in 2011, also returns. Horton finished with an overall record of 9-8; Gribbell, who missed some time during the campaign, may …

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Native Returns to Lead Baseball Team Into New Season

The 2012 edition of the Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School Generals baseball team is sprinkled with experience as well as young and hungry new faces.

Reggie Maidment may be new to the Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School varsity baseball team as a first-year head coach. But he is in no way new to the school. He replaces longtime leader Doug Hoak, who retired last year, but Maidment has been an assistant with the football team for three years and the baseball junior varsity coach for two years. He also taught at the high school for one year. And as a native of Hamilton who starred for the Generals in the early 2000s in football, basketball and baseball, there shouldn’t be an issue with Maidment knowing the history of the team and the league. “It’s great to be able to give back, and to follow Doug, who was a role model for me, makes it (better),” said Maidment. “I was born and raised in …

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Seniors Ready to Step in to Defend Boys' Tennis CAL Small Title

The high school boys' tennis team has new batch of upperclassmen ready to take over for last year's graduates.

The good thing for a boys' tennis program like the one at Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School is that there are so many top-notch players that usually the varsity squad is littered with upperclassmen. The downside for players who probably could be playing singles at another school is they have to wait their turn. But that also gives them the incentive to prove their worth when the opportunity affords it. The Generals once again will be upperclassmen-heavy this spring, with three seniors who played varsity on last year’s Cape Ann League Small championship squad. “We definitely have a lot of seniors this year. It will be good,” said coach Joe Maher, who is in his 14th season at the helm. “The funny thing is of the seniors only three of them…

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