As some of you may recall from way back last year (December 15, 2023 Owl post), the Weston High School DECA Club has a club-high 49 students moving on to state competion in March. What you didn’t know and must be acknowledged as awesomeness is that one of our business-y School Committee members, Jeff Lucas, suggested holding a mock competition
Read moreWeston’s spectacular Parent Teacher Organization (PTO ) is looking for volunteers for the 2024-25 School Year. Nominations are officially open and will be accepted through Friday February 2. If you are not familiar with the PTO, I surmise you do not have children in the Weston public school system. If you do have children in the Weston Public School system you
Read moreMartin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service (MLK Day) is the only federal holiday that (since 1994) is also designated by Congress as a national day of service – a “day on, not a day off.” Service could mean a clean-up of trash in your neighborhood, helping out at a food pantry, or sewing catnip toys for shelter pets. Given
Read moreDid you know that Weston has 2,000 acres of conserved land and 90+ miles of trails? Most of this land is owned by the Town of Weston, while a small portion is owned by Weston Forest & Trail Association (WFTA), a 501c3 organization. WFTA is responsible for the maintenance of trails, viewpoints and field trails on these acres, which is
Read moreThe Swap Shed at the Transfer Station re-opened this past Saturday, September 18, for the first time since April 2020. It is, as they say, “under new management.” Rather than town transfer station employees keeping an eye on the comings and goings, the Swap Shed is now entirely volunteer-run, much like other towns in the area including Lincoln and Arlington.
Read moreFor those of you who missed #knotweedgate, an episode when the town of Weston unknowingly planted Japanese knotweed in the town center, the bottom line is we have a large, extremely difficult invasive issue in this town. What we all know now is that the culprit for the town center debacle is the fill coming from an area in the
Read moreAh the Swap Shed. Apart from the watering trough and the Paul Revere bell, there is no other place as beloved as the Swap Shed, nor one that brings as many emotions out among Weston’s residents. For someone not born into the Weston fold, the absolute love of it somewhat defies belief. Weston is not alone in its love affair,
Read moreIn September 2020, the Owl was doing the usual rounds of forest and fields as her day (volunteer) job is stewardship for Weston Forest and Trail Association. About a quarter mile into the woods on Case Estates, at a scraggly-weeded open spot in the forest, a little idea sprang up that would not go away. What if there was a
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