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Regis Fest This Weekend at Weston’s Home Town College: Open to All

So, the Owl is right now inside a classroom at Regis College…how many of you can say the same? It blows my mind how little we know about our home town college and here is the good news on that: we’re going to do better. This morning’s meeting is all about local news and town communications and there are actual

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More Blessings and More Animals: St. Peter’s Church, Sunday October 1

So, here’s the deal, Weston. If your animal or stuffed animal or photo of animal leans more Episcopal than Unitarian (please, please do not ask me the difference), the lovely St. Peter’s Church of Weston is also having a Blessing of the Animals service on Sunday, October 1 at 10 am. The Church invites you to bring your pets, stuffed

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Fica A Dica: The District Restaurant at Minuteman High School

“Fica a dica” means “here’s some advice” in Portuguese. ++ Yesterday, the Owl was invited for lunch by a friend to the District Restaurant in Lexington. Never heard of it? Yeah, I hadn’t either. It turns out that this is the “test kitchen” of the Minuteman High School, our area’s public regional career technical education high school. Yes, the same

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Blessing of the Animals at First Parish Church – Sunday, October 1

Now, it is true and usually apparent that the Owl is not very church-y. But there is one event at least per year that is likely to bring her into the fold, so to speak. No, not Christmas Eve though I see you once-a-year carol singers and can one-up you…it’s time for the Blessing of the Animals this Sunday, October

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Meet Weston’s New School Resource Officer John Buckley

Last week on a perfect late summer day, the Owl sat down for a chat with Weston Public Schools’ new full-time Student Resource Officer (SRO), John Buckley. There could not have been a better morning to sit out at a picnic table near the high school pond where some ducks paddled about, some students with yellow sheets (scavenger hunt?) passed by

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Sponsor the Weston Community League’s Winter Festival

The Weston Community League (fka Women’s Community League) is looking for sponsors for its 2023 Weston Winter Festival. The proceeds of the Festival will benefit the WCL Weston High School Scholarship Fund. Winter Festival 2023 will be held on the Town Green on December 2, 2023, from 2:00 to 4:30 pm. It is one of the most popular annual community-wide

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A Parliament of Owls: National Preparedness Month – Fraud and Identity Theft Prevention

Did you know a group of owls is called a “parliament”? In the case of the Weston Owl, a Parliament is a guest post on this page. The following post was submitted by Rudy Ruggles, a member of Weston’s fantastic Weston Emergency Reserve Corps (WERC) and was largely written by Detective Kellie Connarton of Weston Police. ++ September is National Preparedness Month. The

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