Okay, so WordPress decided to update overnight and I have no idea where anything is and almost could not post this morning and you all would have MISSED ME. Fortunately, old dogs do learn new tricks though it is possible that I have erased half the site while doing so. Onwards, Weston, to some fun travel with the Council on
Read moreYou know how sometimes you have really cool friends doing really cool things and you have to pinch yourself because you are so lucky to know them? Yeah, me neither. Oh just joking, folks, but while I cannot really count Ellen Minzner as a friend, I did get to meet and talk with her at the Head of the Charles
Read moreThis afternoon, the Owl had the immense privilege to be invited by Weston Fire to commemorate the addition of a yellow ribbon to the flagpole in honor of Weston Firefighter Mike Maccini who will deploy tomorrow to the Middle East. The members of Group 4, which normally includes Firefighter Maccini, gathered to wish him a safe deployment and a safe
Read moreThe Owl was contacted this morning (well, late last night but this Owl is not actually a night owl) by the Reverend Alicia Vélez Stewart of the United Methodist Church. I would say that she had received a bat signal but I don’t want people getting confused with too many wildlife images. Concentrate, Weston. The school nurse at the McDevitt
Read moreSo, while we are watching the snow cascade down, Brazilians are entering the final day of revelry for the five day (or more if you are from the northeast) Carnaval. It is most definitely a day off of school there, and from work, and from the worries of the world. No snow plowing necessary. Having been fortunate enough to live
Read moreSo if anyone wants to know why I am obsessed with a K9 Comfort Dog named Otis who belongs to a town two west of here–well, it’s because I had a chocolate lab myself once upon a time – actually I’ve had four, but one in particular was my heart dog. His name was Caju (“cashew” in Portuguese) and for
Read moreAccording to the Waltham Channel, a fantastic Facebook page for happenings in the next zippy code, Escapology Waltham is coming to a strip mall near us later this summer. Those of us with teenagers who escape to Chipotle in the same plaza know which one I’m talking about. It used to be the “Party City mall” but now there is
Read moreKnown to the Owl as the Route 2 Prison (on the Rotary from Hell), the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Concord (MCI-Concord) will close by this summer, according to all local news sources including this one. If I may say so without running afoul of the PC police, this is really good news for the area since those walls are not my favorite
Read moreOver the border in Newton, there will be almost 12,000 students without a lot to do on Friday. Tonight, the Newton Teachers Association (NTA) voted to strike. If you want to follow the story on how the teachers’ union got there, you can read about it on the Boston Herald. As we all know, it is illegal for teachers (or
Read moreWell, I cannot tell you how happy this event makes me…or how much you all need to pay attention to it. Professor Adelman will be talking about how newspaper printers and editors were the real instigators of the Revolutionary War. They were like the Fox News of their time. Oh fine, that’s as political as I allow myself to get.
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