Tonight, the heroic volunteers at Zoning Board of Appeals, lots of paid “expert witnesses”, a resident developer and his crew all get ready for another three-hour tour about a not-so-tiny ship nicknamed The Whopper. Yes, 518 South Avenue’s continued hearing is tonight, January 31, by zoom at 7 pm. If you moved here yesterday and have no clue about the
Read moreThis afternoon, January 31, the School Committee is meeting at a special bat time (4 pm), same bat place (on zoom). Please see the agenda online for inspiration and edification, or glance at it below. The agenda starts out in the usual way of committee updates and also updates on the amazing Red Tide successes, the track team kicking butt,
Read moreMy Sunday gratitude is for these past three days I spent with Grand and Papi Owl. It’s not been a great winter for them, and they recovered from a fortunately-light Omicron bout just a couple of weeks ago. Since Massachusetts weather and Ilinois weather are usually equally bad at this time of year, it seemed the right time to go.
Read moreSeven years ago, we were two days into what became known as Snowmaggeden, Snowpocalypse, or just a giant *hitload of snow. In a one month period, Boston got something like 82 inches of snow, all told the winter ended with 110 inches. And now 2022 is like “hold my hot chocolate, I’m gonna do that in a single day!” Well,
Read moreWeston is home to many residents who have important jobs, roles, and interests. While the names of many are immediately familiar (the former resident just named to the Hall of Fame has pretty good recognition), some have names that make you think “huh, where have I seen that name before?” Pam Wood is one who falls into the latter camp–and
Read moreNumbers published Thursday, January 27 by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) show Weston public schools with 45 students and 7 staff testing positive in the last 7 days (1/20-1/26). The week before (1/13-19), there were 56 students and 7 staff positives, and the week prior to that (1/6-1/12) there were 67 students and 20 staff positives.
Read moreAlmost a year ago, the Owl was having a nice chat with the now-retired Police Chief Goulding about the new hybrid Ford Explorer police vehicle and the Chief mentioned his hope to have an EV (electric vehicle, in case you were born yesterday) in Weston soon. While I was pretty sure that a Tesla would be the obvious choice for
Read moreFor those of you south of the BPR line, you may not get up to Lincoln as often as you really should. Great trails, a yummy cafe (Twisted Tree is made for me), and soon a new restaurant in the space once occupied by at least three restaurants in the seven years I’ve lived here. Later we shall have a
Read moreWeston High School’s Quiz Show team will be back on air this March, taking on Mystic Valley Charter in the first round of this fun and challenging High School Quiz Show. For those unfamiliar with the show, local station WGBH’s High School Quiz Show® is a single-elimination academic team competition for all high school students in Massachusetts. This is not Jeopardy,
Read morePlease note: this story has been updated as Tuesday January 26 at 12:45 pm. The Owl is not going to monitor ice conditions at College Pond so is clarifying the post. On Monday morning January 25, Weston’s Recreation Department sent out communications by email and social media that College Pond was closed for ice skating. When it is closed, there
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