The deadline for Community Preservation Committee applications for funding projects is 5 p.m. on Tuesday, January 17, 2023. Do come up with the wildest thing you can think of and then see what happens. No, don’t–the Committee has plenty of work to do on the less wild stuff. If I were a “guesser” (yes, it’s a word), I would say
Read moreWhile the bruises from the 2022 Annual Town Meeting continue to fade and hopefully the Owl’s memories from it will soon, Special Town Meeting cometh anon. In case you are not from this area and have not enjoyed the specialness of the antiquated form of government for small towns called Town Meeting, well, you have no idea how much “fun”
Read moreOn Monday night, March 21, the hard-working volunteers of our Community Preservation Committee (their charge can be seen here) met with other hard-working volunteers and employees in town to decide which CPC funding requests would move forward to Annual Town Meeting in May. Spoiler alert: Memorial Pool is not one. Two of the seven requests were deferred to await further
Read moreThere are eight requests for Weston Community Preservation Act funds this spring. The Owl will summarize these funds requests in order of presentation to the Community Preservation Committee. Note that these requests have not gone through public hearings, and are not up for Town Meeting discussion yet. These are simply presentations to the Community Preservation Committee. As a review, or
Read moreThe Recreation Commission will be discussing the planned Memorial Pool renovation at their meeting on Thursday night, January 20. I must say it is genius for them to discuss summer at the start of the (historically) coldest nine-day period in Massachusetts. That there is true; I read it on ABC Channel 5’s facebook update this morning. Yes, the Recreation Commission
Read moreThere are five requests for Weston CPA funds this spring. In no particular order, but rather the order in which I am paying attention to them, I thought I’d take a look at the general requests. Note that this proposal for Memorial Pool Renovation went throuh public hearing in October 2020 and will be on the Town Meeting agenda. On
Read moreThere are five requests for Weston CPA funds this spring. In no particular order, but rather the order in which I am paying attention to them, I thought I’d take a look at the general requests. Note that these have not gone through public hearing, and are not up for Town Meeting discussion yet. These are simply presentations to the
Read moreThere are five requests for Weston CPA funds this spring. In no particular order, but rather the order in which I am paying attention to them, I thought I’d take a look at the general requests. Note that these have not gone through public hearing, and are not up for Town Meeting discussion yet. These are simply presentations to the
Read moreThere are five requests for Weston CPA funds this spring. In no particular order, but rather the order in which I am paying attention to them, I thought I’d take a look at the general requests. Note that these have not gone through public hearing, and are not up for Town Meeting discussion yet. These are simply presentations to the
Read moreThere are five requests for Weston CPA funds this spring. In no particular order, but rather the order in which I am paying attention to them, I thought I’d take a look at the general requests. Note that these have not gone through public hearing, and are not up for Town Meeting discussion yet. These are simply presentations to the
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