If you’re like the Owl, you probably receive about four requests for survey responses a day. Just today I had to tell the hospital network what I thought of a doctor, the waiting room, the wait time, the color of the paper gown (okay not that) etc etc and I almost gave up about ten times but kept slogging onwards
Read moreOn Friday August 5, the latest Weston Art & Innovation Center (AIC) newsletter was sent out, and with it, all the random hopes and dreams of the Owl as creative genius were reignited. Quilting class? Yes, I would love to be able to quilt but methinks my patience level is low. Needle felting? So much fun and yet very stabby
Read moreI’m melting! I’m melting! Yes, New England, you are. This is the time of year when moving to Canada starts looking really good and all your complaints about snow and cold and blah blah wind chill seem ridiculous. And yet, after this week, sunset is before 8 pm and you are only 114 days from Thanksgiving. Almost time to brine
Read moreIt’s time to get your tickets for the best nonprofit youth theater you will see grace the auditorium of Regis College. Six productions will hit the main stage and the black box theatre and you won’t want to miss any of them. Trust me on this one–last year, I saw three of the productions and regretted that I had not
Read moreFolks, we’re in full-on summer here in Weston which means Valley Pond and Memorial Pool are finally swimming temperature, there is absolutely no traffic anywhere in town so you might as well roll through the Intersection of Doom (I am kidding, officers) and we’re at the halfway mark of the Weston Town Green Concerts. Tomorrow night, Wednesday, July 6, you
Read moreThe Owl is still out on break but promised to post this event for the fabulous folks at the Weston Art and Innovation Center. On Sunday, June 26 from 3 – 6 pm, Chris Welles will be hosting the Weston AIC Jazz Jam on the fourth Sunday of every month! The house band features on piano James Merenda; Miki Matsuki on drums;
Read moreLast year a Weston resident on King’s Grant Road opened her backyard for a lovely concert–you can read about that event here in the Owl. This Sunday, there will again be a concert this time celebrating Boston Symphony Orchestra violinist Bo Youp Hwang, who has been at both BSO and Weston for about 40 years. When: Sunday, June 19 at
Read moreOkay, Weston, it is time to stop being interesting so I can get out of here for a little R&R&S (“S” for soccer of which there will be a lot in my life for the next two weeks). It is impossible not to plug the Summer Concert Series which is led by Weston Recreation and sponsored by Cambridge Trust, because
Read moreOn Friday, June 10, the Friends of our fabulous Weston Public Library are holding one of my favorite events ever, which involves the sale of SUGAR in my favorite form of cake/cake pop. Oh wait, there is a book sale too. Here’s the truth: the Owl is in her temporary office of the WPL right at this very moment …
Read moreWeston High School will graduate the amazing Class of 2022 on Friday, June 3 at 6 pm on the Town Green. They are amazing because of how they weathered a pandemic that cut short sophomore year, changed junior year between hybrid and in-person masked learning, and started their senior year with masks and testing. They gave up study-abroad opportunities, cut short or
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