Posted onJune 30, 2025|Comments Off on Zullo Gallery has Bought its Building
Press release from the Zullo Gallery –
Signed, sealed, delivered: Zullo Secures Main St. Home
After decades of “some day” hoping to purchase the 454-456A Main St. building, that day finally arrived. On June 24, the Zullo Gallery-Center for the Arts officially secured its permanent home for the arts in downtown Medfield with the sale closing, and Zullo Executive Director Bill Pope proudly receiving the deed. Pope noted the entire journey to purchase the building was complicated, challenging, and even tense at times, but that made it all the more gratifying when everything fell into place at the closing. “First and foremost, we couldn’t have done this without Tom and Lisa Nightingale giving us the opportunity in February to purchase the building from them, and continue our work at the Zullo,” said Pope. “From there, our biggest tasks included raising more than $600,000, forming two different legal entities, and getting bank approval for financing.” Pope noted that in addition to the Nightingales, more than 35 individuals stepped up with donations or other types of funding that helped to make the building purchase possible. Needham Bank also played a critical role in providing financing, with many questions posed and documents required in the final hours before the sale, but with all details falling into place by June 24. In addition to the Zullo Gallery on the second floor of the building, Zullo Gallery Realty LLC now owns the first-floor space rented by Casabella Pizza, Medfield Barbershop and Absi Jewelers. The second legal entity created as part of the building purchase governs investor financing. After the dust settles, Pope plans to pick a date for a celebration of this new chapter of the Zullo Gallery. In the meantime, a new nine-person board is in the process of being confirmed (with a few seats still available), and the Zullo team is working with a consultant on a strategic visioning project funded by a $10,000 Medfield Foundation Legacy Fund grant. Community members interested in learning more about Zullo board opportunities are encouraged to contact Pope at wpope1@mac.com. Pope notes that having board members with legal and/or property management expertise would be especially helpful. For nearly four decades, the Zullo Gallery has fulfilled its mission to advance and support the arts through exhibitions, art education, live music and community events. Donations will be critical for supporting future programming, and can be made online at zullogallery.org/make-adonation/ or mailed to/dropped off at Zullo Gallery, 456A Main St., Medfield, MA 02052. “In addition to the Town House, library and Historical Society, there is now – as there should be — a permanent home for the arts in the heart of downtown Medfield. We can’t thank the community enough for helping to make this Zullo Gallery dream a reality,” said Pope
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Posted onJune 7, 2025|Comments Off on State Flush with $, but not Sharing
From the Statehouse News Service Weekly Roundup (that former Medfield resident John Nunnari faithfully continues to share with me weekly, despite being gone 5+ years) –
“State tax collections continue to cruise, putting the total haul with just one month left in the fiscal year more than $2.8 billion ahead of last year’s pace”
Yet the state is not sharing so much with Medfield this year. Current Cherry Sheet estimated increases for state revenue sharing with towns over last year are modest.
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Posted onJune 6, 2025|Comments Off on Sustainable Yard & Garden Tour – Sunday, 6/22, 3–5:30 pm
From Helen Dewey, of Medfield Environment Action –
Sustainable Yard and Garden Tour
Medfield Environment Action will be hosting another Sustainable Yard and Garden Tour on Sunday, June 22, from 3 – 5:30 pm. Attendees will travel to four different gardens in Medfield. The homeowners will walk attendees through the yard and provide an overview of their garden and what makes it sustainable. Homeowners will discuss what they have planted, how they maintain it and any equipment that they use. The garden on Pine St and the one on Stagecoach Rd. were featured in the last tour in September, 2024. Come see the gardens in full bloom in June! It will be set up like a crawl in which folks move from garden to garden, at specific times, providing their own transportation. Car-pooling is encouraged! There is no cost to attend, and all are welcome. Register ahead of time at tinyurl.com/SustainableGardenTour-2025 to receive more information about each garden and any weather related updates.
Why would one want to strive for a yard that has a low impact on the environment? Conventional yard care can be time consuming, is destructive to the eco-system and harmful to an entire food web. For example: poison the grubs, birds are harmed by eating the grubs, use chemicals to achieve green grass, storm water becomes contaminated, moreover turf offers nothing in the way of food for nature. In addition, children and pets can be harmed when exposed to grass and yards with a lot of chemicals.
The homeowners on the tour will show how a sustainable, low impact yard is a work in progress but the benefits include lower maintenance costs, cleaner air to breath, (no gas powered leaf blowers), improved visual appeal, no secondary poisoning through the food web, re-use or composting of leaf materials on-site, conserving water, supporting biodiversity, “the living earth”, precious time available to focus on other activities and a sense of helping rather than harming, everybody wins.
Whether you are an avid gardener interested in learning some sustainable practices that you can implement or just curious as to what it is all about, join us on Sunday, June 22 to take a walk around some beautiful, thoughtful and eco-friendly gardens in Medfield. The flyer with the addresses of the gardens is posted on the MEA website, meamedfield.org. Any questions please email meamedfield@gmail.com
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Posted onJune 4, 2025|Comments Off on Medfield TV Survey – corrected link
NB – Apologies for the fact that the prior post had an incorrect link to the Medfield TV Community Survey, which has now been corrected
From Katie Duval, Executive Director, Medfield TV –
We are hoping to get feedback from as many residents as possible. Please consider helping us by sending the survey to your friends, neighbors, and local networks. The more feedback we receive, the better we’ll be able to plan for Medfield TV’s future.
Posted onJune 4, 2025|Comments Off on Medfield TV Survey
From Katie Duval, Executive Director, Medfield TV –
We are hoping to get feedback from as many residents as possible. Please consider helping us by sending the survey to your friends, neighbors, and local networks. The more feedback we receive, the better we’ll be able to plan for Medfield TV’s future.
Posted onJune 3, 2025|Comments Off on Past MCPE Trivia Fundraiser
From today’s photo memories my OneDrive shared –
Mike Sullivan and Mark Fisher being really good sports to both join me as the Town House Team at a MCPE trivia fundraiser, and to wear the fanciest team hats in the room. Despite my ringers’ vast knowledge about Medfield and our winning thinking hats, we lost.
I started this blog to share the interesting and useful information that I saw while doing my job as a Medfield select board member. I thought that my fellow Medfield residents would also find that information interesting and useful as well. This blog is my effort to assist in creating a system to push the information out from the Town House to residents. Let me know if you have any thoughts on how it can be done better.
For information on my other job as an attorney (personal injury, civil litigation, estate planning and administration, and real estate), please feel free to contact me at 617-969-1500 or Osler.Peterson@OslerPeterson.com.
Memorial Address given by State Representative, Josh Tarsky (Photo by Colleen Sullivan)
Co-Chair, Memorial Day Committee: Michelle Doucette (Photo by Colleen Sullivan)
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