Content Warning: If you are a vegetarian or vegan, you may want to skip this post. I have no idea where to get a Tofurkey so you’re on your own. It’s time to order your pasture-and-forage fed turkey for Thanksgiving. Getting one at Codman Community Farms in Lincoln is easier than battling Verrill or Wilson Farms crowds, and you’ll be
Read moreSo the Owl missed the Select Board meeting on Tuesday night because she was learning about Affordable Housing at 0 Wellesley Street. I like the plans. I just want them to change the address–no one wants to live at a place qualified as a “zero.” How about One Wellesley Street? Fancy. Oh, all right, 7 Wellesley Street…lucky, actually exists, etc.
Read moreNow there’s a title you were not exactly expecting. Step back because lightning is going to strike me for either joking about circles of hell or using Dante and Virgil way out of line. Fortunately the woods are not dry (quite the opposite really) at the moment so if I get zapped there, the rest of you should be safe
Read moreLast Sunday, the Owls (minus Owlets) took a little day trip to the town of Hudson, mostly in search of tacos and beer, but also because insider information implied that Hudson had a small-town downtown that is to be envied, as well as beautiful wide open spaces. Also tacos and beer. But we’ll get to that. Hudson is a town
Read moreWith Weston’s (American) football team away on Friday evening, it’s time for the other futebol (you know: the one you actually play with your feet) to take over Proctor Field. Thanks to some extra outreach from Athletic Director Mike McGrath, Boston Latin has agreed to push back the scheduled boys varsity soccer game to 6 pm on Friday night. This
Read moreWhen the Owls moved from Illinois to New Jersey to Brazil to Miami to Brazil again and then Weston, we definitely had a changeover in our art. Tropical prints don’t so much cut it here, nor Maine landscapes in São Paulo, and so we moved our art there and then back, and some probably is still stuck in the Brazilian
Read moreAs the Owl drove through town during monsoon-of-the-week today, I noted that various folks seem not to know about Weston By-Laws* about end-of-year holiday decorating. Because I am concerned that some of you will be ticketed, I thought it might be handy to review the most important ones. Sec. 4 Paragraph 3 states that no chrysanthemums of any color may
Read moreIn a Special Report, the Owl investigates allegations that Merriam Street will never be open again. Or fully open. Or perhaps “reliably open.” When the Department of Public Works invests in a metal street sign with “Merriam Street Closed Ahead”, what are you to think? This is no temporary duct tape and poster board jobby. For those of you who
Read moreUPDATE 9/29/2021: SPECIAL TOWN MEETING SCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER 30, 2021 HAS BEEN CANCELED BY SELECT BOARD VOTE ON 9/28/2021. If you are planning to submit a Citizens’ Petition for Special Town Meeting (scheduled for November 30, 2021 at 7 pm in the High School Auditorium), tickety-tock, they are due on Friday October 1. Citizens are always encouraged to speak with
Read moreWeston’s Deer Hunting program begins Friday, October 1 and is open through the last day of December, with the goal of reduction of the deer herd. Anyone who has lost a young tree or bush to the marauding fluffos will know that we have a lot of them here in Weston (and yes, the Owl lost two young willows to
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