. The Owl has been asked to post the following request for help for a family with children in the Weston Public School system. ++ One of our Weston school families – they have children at Woodland, Field, and the Middle School – suffered a house fire last Sunday, March 19. Thankfully, everyone is safe but their home is
Read more. I have found my people and they are Shakespeare people, and that there is a phrase that I would never imagine coming out of the Owl. In general, I feel stabby when I have to read Shakespeare, and it seems that two actors feel the same. When I read marketing material that says there will be “universal themes of
Read moreOkay, Weston, as mentioned last year, I cannot and will not write “The Spring Bunny” and the “Spring Egg Hunt.” I am not bound by Town Green’s antiquated rules of “religon-free” events and therefore I shall continue to call the six foot tall, pastel-vest wearing, plastic-egg-carrying fuzzo what it actually is: the Easter Bunny. The annual Spring Easter Egg Hunt will take
Read more. Early spring means it’s time for the Land’s Sake Sugaring Off Festival, this year on Saturday, March 25 from 10 am-2 pm at the Middle School Sugar Shack (fine, it’s a Sugar House but only because we’re Weston). The Sugar House is where the famous Weston-born maple syrup is boiled and bottled. Come on by for a free tour (this
Read more. I don’t mean to steal the thunder of the Water Tank siting presentation tonight, but you can catch that one on a recording and the Fractal Fair is ONE NIGHT ONLY and hosted by awesome Wildcat pre-calc folks. I don’t even want to admit how much Mr. Owl is looking forward to this evening. Postponed from Pi Day, 3/14
Read more. The Owl was just sent notice of the passing of Lynne MacDowell, who was the co-owner of Lincoln’s Stonegate Gardens. For those who know it, Stonegate is a wonderful garden store and nursery just north of the Weston/Lincoln town line on route 117. Of the 14 trees that the Owl has planted in her northside yard, 10 of them
Read more. So I’m not sure anyone has noticed but we have a lot of high emotions in town right now about interim superintendents, standards-based grading, and teacher contracts. And while we all know that Weston is unique, we are not alone. Our neighbor to the south, home to the best college on this planet, is facing some similar stuff (minus
Read more. Back for its 9th year, Weston High School will take over the Town Green on May 20 from 11 am to 2 pm for the family-friendly and kid-popular Spring Fling. This event raises money for Camp No Limits, a summer camp for kids with limb loss and differences. It is run by eager and energetic high school students who
Read more. If you are on Facebook, please make sure you head over to Weston Historical Society’s page which is newly envigorated and the Owl can’t keep up with all the good stuff. Here’s one post that caught her eye–we had a Devil’s Den in Connecticut (Weston, of all the ironies) which is actually protected parkland that the Owl has hiked
Read more. “Fica a dica” means “here’s some advice” in Portuguese. + As you all know, one of the reasons the Owl is obsessed with Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is the element of surprise that comes every week. Like “check out these weird bumpy veggies, let’s find a recipe for them” or “wow, 40 heirloom tomatoes, now what?” Favorite discoveries have
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