The annual Weston High School Pumpkin Festival will take place this year on Saturday, October 14 from 11-2 pm on the Weston Town Green (rain date is Sunday, October 15). It is the 19th year for Pumpkinfest Weston and without doubt one of Weston’ favorite annual events.. Run entirely by the Weston High School students (oh fine, there are some adult chaperones
Read moreHere’s the thing, Weston. We were recently named the #2 most successful high school athletics program in the state. And if you disqualify (let’s just say red-card) the #1 program because it is parochial (private), well, glory be, it’s Weston at #1. And if you include the fact that we have the best mascot in Massachusetts, and the best athletic
Read moreLast week on a perfect late summer day, the Owl sat down for a chat with Weston Public Schools’ new full-time Student Resource Officer (SRO), John Buckley. There could not have been a better morning to sit out at a picnic table near the high school pond where some ducks paddled about, some students with yellow sheets (scavenger hunt?) passed by
Read moreTomorrow, September 15 at 4 pm, the Weston Police Department will take on the Weston Fire Department in a no-wager, for-fun co-ed softball game. Because Rivers School’s baseball field is underwater (these jokes sort of write themselves, no?), the game will now take place at the Weston High School Baseball Field (444 Wellesley Street). The public is invited to attend
Read moreActually, don’t start your engines if you are a junior because the parking space lottery is not yet done. And if you are a parent coming to the high school for any reason, never ever park in the student lot not only because every space is assigned but because it is the single most dangerous non-intersection in Weston. Years off
Read moreUpdate 2:52 pm: The Owl erroneously credited the wrong source of the #1 ranking but was corrected quickly by people who know much more than me. Thank you! Oh, yawn…wait, what? We did it again? Well, of course we did, Weston, what have I been telling you for years? We have the best public high school in the best state
Read more. As some of you know, the Owl sat down with Weston High School principal, Paul Peri, on July 12, and afterward published this scintillating and extremely positive yet totally objective (ahem) summary of our talk. What I did not publish because I was told it was off the record, was that one-year-veteran Assistant Principal Jennifer Knight had resigned and
Read more. While Weston students and families are out and about this summer, there are more than a few 12-month inhabiters of 444 Wellesley Street, also known as Weston High School as well as other school buildings. Presumably, they go home at night and on weekends. On the list of interviewees, this summer are the Weston principals (as many as I
Read more. This morning, the Weston Owl was catching up on Weston activities in her very overfilled (aren’t you all supposed to be on vacation?) inbox and discovered sunshine and music from a talented and caring group of high school students called the Music Collective. Somehow these student-musicians discovered one of the Weston Owl’s favorite songs, “Here Comes the Sun” and
Read more. When we last heard from the Galactic Narwhal Chicken Effect Robotics Team, they were soaking in the limelight of their major win at the World Championships in the Lone Star State. You can read that story here. The Owl caught up with team coach Cary Gumbert to find out about recent rumors of loyalties to ….now, careful on blood
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