The Owl perked up yesterday evening when town communications came out with this eye-catcher: “Ever wonder why some roads get cleared before others and how the DPW tackles snowy or icy roads?” Actually no, but it remained irresistible to read further–nice work, Anthony Senesi, Public Information guy. Now, DPW road-clearing math is pretty easy for even you non-mathy people (umm,
Read moreWeston’s implementation of wireless water meters is off to a Weston summer start. As in, slow. Perhaps 90 percent of the town was gone all summer. Perhaps they didn’t check their mail. Perhaps. Fortunately, the Owl has been largely grounded and so Owl Hollow got its upgrade yesterday. Unfortunately for the meter installer, he had no idea that he was
Read moreUpdate 11/22/2021. The following communication came to the Owl today from Tom Cullen, Director of DPW: the State (MassDOT) conducted necessary temporary bridge repairs and as promised because of those repairs reevaluated their recent carrying capacity of the Merriam Street bridge which resulted in the carrying capacity be increased from the 3 ton carrying capacity in May/June back to 6
Read moreFeeling a bit stressed that drought is coming this summer? Concerned that Weston will again blow out every single community in Massachusetts in its water use? Why not invest in a rain barrel? To make it easy, the Town of Weston is again participating in a program to make them available at a discounted price. Why get a rain barrel?
Read moreDid your early spring cleaning net some nasty chemicals and stuff that you can’t throw away in your regular trash? Don’t even attempt to put it down the septic and drains–the wetlands will find you …have you seen the Creature from the Black Lagoon? Well, it was filmed here in Weston, and that was because of all the Rodeo herbicide
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