Tickets are flying out the door for SOLSTICE: Reflections on Winter Light, an annual event at Mount Auburn Cemetery so if you’re interested in cool lighting, live music both indoors and out, in one of the prettiest spots in the Boston area, head over to their site as soon as possible. The event includes an “outdoor journey through large-scale light
Read moreThis fall, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church is sponsoring a diaper drive to benefit the Diaper Depot in Waltham. The Diaper Depot provides over 5,000 diapers per month to 120 Waltham residents who qualify for public assistance. Each eligible child receives 45-60 diapers per month. The Depot is open one Saturday a month and runs out of Christ Church, an Episcopal Church
Read moreThe amazing Weston High School class of 2025 (go ‘cats and owlets!) is once again partnering with the Waltham Boys & Girls Club by running a greatly needed winter clothing and holiday toy drive. This will be third year of this winter clothing drive. The drive starts today, October 2, and runs through November 22. These families are right down the road
Read more“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
Read moreToday, September 26, is the last day to secure early bird pricing for Charles River Museum’s Craft Beers for a Cause on Thursday, October 26 from 5:30-8:30 pm. To put it bluntly, do you want to pay $60 for entry or would you prefer $45? Think of all you can do with your ($60-$45, mathy stuff, computing…) $15 you’ve saved.
Read moreOkay, Weston, once in a while I get really annoyed at you for not telling me about something really cool that is just out of home range and yet I should definitely have known about it. This has happened with Hammond Castle, the wackiest castle ever to exist in the US; Halibut Point, the best shoreline rocks in Massachusetts, and
Read moreThe Owl watched the local news last night with horror. A town close to us, Leominster, is in a spectacularly bad way with the deluge yesterday. Dam failures, evacuations, flooding–this is not something hundreds of miles away–it’s right here. While I do not know how many dams are in Weston (we all know Hobbs Brook Dam at Cat Rock which
Read more. Now, everyone knows that Wellesley is one of the Owl’s favorite towns considering it holds her alma mater, a really nice botanical garden, sidewalks (!!) and a working train service. Yes, I am firing that shot over the bow of the MBTA and the Fitchburg line with its shuttered Silver Hill station. Feeling grrrr-y, I am. This actually leads
Read more. So here we are, Weston, on the cusp of the five-day party called July 4th weekend. It is one of the favorite jokes of Mr. Owl when the US celebrates an exact date not on that date. Like Independence Day is in fact July 4, not July 2 when Lexington’s fireworks go off or even July 1 when Boston
Read more. The Owlets play a lot of soccer. To keep myself from becoming glued to a car seat while waiting, I like to take Katie Puppy, K9 ranger, for walks in the vicinity. We’ve discovered all kinds of towns, trails, parks and neighborhoods. The first of these wanderings was at North Bridge in Concord (near Fenn School practices) which remains
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