Forget that whole rabbit, rabbit, rabbit thing–tomorrow is the first day of school, school, school for Weston Public Schools students (except kindergarten and pre-K). That means the Big Yellow Buses are back, as well as the usual scramble for breakfast, wayward notebooks and stuffing of the excited dog back into the house. A last minute flurry of school communications has
Read moreLast year, Weston Forest & Trail Association (WFTA) launched the Junior Ranger program, which encourages young people to get out and about in Weston’s Conservation woods, and also learn about the flora and fauna of our home town. After the success of an animal and plant scavenger hunt created by WFTA in April 2020, the 501c3 organization realized that more
Read moreAnd so it begins!! Weston Public Schools start on Wednesday, September 1 (1st-12th grades). Pre-K and Kindergarten have visitation days (let the screaming begin!) on Wednesday, and start with half days on Thursday, September 2. The full Weston public schools calendar is here. Country, Woodland and Field Schools (are these not the cutest school names ever?) have drop-in visitation tomorrow,
Read moreRecently, at least three reports of a roving bobcat have been made on the town’s Community page. Noted first as patrolling Summer Street on Thursday morning around 7:30 am, the bobcat picked off one family’s egg-laying hen during its southside tour on Saturday. It was also sighted on Saturday morning by a resident on Ware Street, and then again on
Read moreLong ago and far away, the Owl went to business school. Quite a good one really–Kellogg was then and possibly still is the best of the marketing MBA schools (go ‘cats). While many of the learnings have faded over time (please don’t make me look at decision science again), one of my favorites came back to me this weekend. It’s
Read moreWeston’s beloved baseball fields numbered 1-5 at Burchard Park will be closed for renovations starting Monday, August 30. This work was approved by Town Meeting this spring and will address the extraordinary wear and tear on fields and base paths by thousands of little cleat-wearing Little League players over the past 12 years that Burchard has been open. Repairs are
Read moreAt Wednesday night’s School Committee, Weston Public Schools enrollment numbers were presented for 2021-2022. One thing is clear: the Class of 2025 could eat a couple of the others for lunch. That would be the freshman (grade 9) class and it’s always been a brute. Note that two owlets are in that class and the Owl is not unbiased in
Read moreLast night, August 25, was the first School Committee meeting for the 2021-22 school year, though as far as I can tell, the work never stopped from last year. Summer meetings, Board of Health meetings, administration working behind the scenes in the school–I really hope these folks got some good time off this summer. In any case, the Owl was
Read moreIf you’ve driven past the Weston Public Library this summer, you will have noticed the big white tent out front and occasionally a smattering of tables and chairs. It was exactly this scene that encouraged the Owl to swoop in and see what is going on. And in a bonus coup, she got to hang out in this outdoor shady
Read moreWeston’s implementation of wireless water meters is off to a Weston summer start. As in, slow. Perhaps 90 percent of the town was gone all summer. Perhaps they didn’t check their mail. Perhaps. Fortunately, the Owl has been largely grounded and so Owl Hollow got its upgrade yesterday. Unfortunately for the meter installer, he had no idea that he was
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