/ After postponing the planned teacher rally yesterday due to the terrible driving/standing/walking conditions, the Weston Education Association teacher’s union will be holding their rally today in between sledding runs on the Town Green. The rally will be held from 3:45 – 4:30 pm on Tuesday, January 24. Again, the Owl’s main purpose in posting this information is to alert
Read moreUpdate: due to the expected weather this afternoon, the teacher rally scheduled for today has been postponed. When the Owl knows the new date and time, it will be posted here. The Owl has received word that the Weston Public Schools’ teacher’s union, the Weston Education Association, will be holding a rally on Town Green today, Monday, January 23 from
Read moreYou can’t say that Weston doesn’t try. After months of dealing with the crazy at the Intersection of Doom, Weston’s Traffic & Sidewalk Committee recently approved* the placement of an arresting (not in the Weston Police way which seems to have largely failed) sculpture by long-time Weston resident and artist Joe Ferguson. Those of you without heads under rocks might
Read moreIf you actually stop at the four-way stop at Boston Post Road/School/Church (aka the Intersection of Doom), congratulations! You are part of the .00000015%! And the stoppers get a bonus view of Weston’s historic watering trough where General Knox took a drink while rolling the cannons along…oh fine, the 1890s trough post-dates General Knox and the Paul Revere bell tolling
Read moreWith a nod to The New Yorker, which used to frequently quote police blotter “events” in Bar Harbor, Maine, the Owl presents the 2022 Worst Intersections of Weston. If you are not a New Yorker reader (and I do question why in the world you wouldn’t be) Constabulary Notes from All Over would frequently quote the wackiest stories from the
Read moreOkay, Weston, the Owl is on her last nerve with the Intersection of Doom* and Massachusetts drivers. I know no one in Weston is at fault (haha) for the general lunacy of the four-way stop (I use the word “stop” very very lightly), but let’s review the law versus what actually happens every.single.day. Also, if you all would stop doing
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