As many readers know, the Owl’s general happy home range is in the W, L and C towns around us. Once in a while, when forced to try to get a Samsonite luggage repaired, the Owl flies of to the big “N” or Newton. While our dog Katie Puppy’s best friend Lua lives in north Newton so we do visit,
Read moreThe fact is that the Owl does not fully understand the Steampunk Festival that happens each year since 2010 in our neighboring “W” town of Waltham. On Saturday, May 13 the Town Common of Waltham will be transformed into…well, what exactly? Steampunk Heaven. If you do not know what steampunk style is, don’t worry, the Owl didn’t know either so
Read more. On Friday, the story of a wonderful new public art piece was published in the Lowell Sun, a local news source that survives if not thrives in the greater Lowell area since 1878 (!!). Here are the first paragraphs of that story (re-printed by permission) and I encourage you to read the rest at the Lowell Sun site (and
Read more. Once a year (except during the pandemic), Wellesley College Alumnae of Boston (I’m one! Except of Weston which is totally better) offers a program called Authors on Stage, featuring three authors speaking about their newly-released books. I look forward to presenting there when I finally launch my tell-all book about Weston, much in the line of Prince Harry’s Spare,
Read more. As the Owl starts to shut things down for some electronics-free time, check out the following events in Lincoln and Concord next week and consider buying your Concord Garden Tour tickets asap. They are on sale today and go fast–they’re a fundraiser for the Concord Museum. If you are stay-cationing next week, or are working from home with some
Read more. So, here it is, Weston, the tax you have to pay for having this wonderful and extremely biased source of information about the town of Weston. As of yet, the Owl does not accept advertising except her own, or in this case, from an Owlet. On Wednesday, April 26 at 5:30 pm at the Weston Public Library, Weston High
Read more. As many readers know, St. Peter’s Church in Weston supports a community of Afghan evacuees in Manchester, New Hampshire. There is a new challenge drive and it has to do with the Owl family’s favorite sport! Sit down, lacrosse folks. There are eight Afghan kids who will play soccer this summer in the Manchester Angels Soccer League. The league
Read more. Who needs a fluff piece this morning? Me! Okay, let’s talk flowers which is a favorite subject of mine. Yesterday, the Owl met with a wonderful new pollinator gardener who is going to shred the front yard of grass and put in some pollinator plants and that just makes the Owl very very happy. What else makes the Owl
Read more. It’s local semi-rural (aka “suburban” except in Weston) pick-up day for locally-owned but not-in-Weston deli Mamaleh’s, Thursday, March 23. As mentioned in prior posts, Mamaleh’s is my favorite bagel and novie (fine, nova) place outside of Zabar’s in NYC, also known as “the city” where Boston is “the town” which makes Weston ummmmmmm semi-rural. Full circle like a bagel
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
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