. As of yesterday, May 11, 2023, the Weston Recreation Department and Recreation Commission announced that the Memorial Pool opening is still on schedule. Does anyone think it funny that we need to do a press release when something is actually on time? Yeah, me neither. According to the Recreation Department, Construction Dynamics, the pool renovation contractor, has done a tremendous
Read moreTown Meeting last night lasted a record 50 minutes, and voters approved both Article 6 (Memorial Pool renovations) and Article 7 (Design fees for Pickleball Courts) without one dissenting presentation. If the Owl were to describe her reaction to the night, she would have to use one of her favorite words: gobsmacked. Article 6 (Memorial Pool) was presented thoroughly with
Read moreOn September 13, 2022 at 7 pm, Weston’s best and brightest will gather at the Weston High School auditorium to take up what is essentially a two-issue Special Town Meeting (though there are eight (8) articles on the warrant). And by “best” and “brightest”, I mean you, eligible Weston voters. Instead of binge-watching Virgin River for the second time (and
Read moreBonus Week at Memorial Pool has been confirmed! If you didn’t know, the pool often has to close during the final full week of August because our lifeguards swan off to things like higher education. This year, however, we have a fully volunteer crew of great blue herons and Canadian (yes Canadian not Canada) geese to watch your kiddies get
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 moreEveryone’s favorite ice bath opens its season tomorrow, and if you don’t scream with excitement, note that you shall soon scream from the temperature which hovers, at the beginning of the season, at around -40. Your toddler does not care. Your toddler will find it the best place ever and you just need to watch for purple lips. Do not
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 moreOn Wednesday, February 16 at 7 PM at the Community Center, the Weston Recreation Commission will host a public information session about the Memorial Pool renovation project currently in design. Recreation Commissioners, department staff and the project designer will be on hand to present the current concept, answer questions and ask for feedback on certain aspects. Prior to this meeting,
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 moreWeston Recreation wins this summer’s happy surprise award by announcing that Memorial Pool will stay open this week, August 23-29. Normally the pool would have closed for the season this past Sunday, due to disappearing lifeguards (they go to college, not alien spaceships, apparently. Yes, I checked sources on that). So pull out your floaties and daisy caps and cool
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