Tag Archives: intersection of doom

Sunny Spring Days, Roadside Farmstands and Honor Systems

. Weston has long had a north-south fisticuffs (sometimes with central Weston as its own contender) and the Owl is not one to let bygones be bygones. The fact is that our town’s real estate agents (you know who you are) like to post stuff about the “desirable” southside (hence the Owl’s references to the “coveted” northside) and then there

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Weston Education Association Rally – Today, January 24, at the Town Green

/ 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

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POSTPONED: Weston Education Association Rally Town Green – January 23

Update: 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

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Downtown Traffic-Calming Measures Now Include a Joe Ferguson Sculpture

You 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

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Did You Know? Weston’s Watering Trough

If 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

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Constabulary Notes From All Over: Weston’s Worst Intersections 2022

With 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

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