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Saturday, May 6, 2006
Townsman getting a new owner
The Boston Herald is selling off its Community Newspaper Co. (CNC), including the Wellesley
Townsman, according to a story in today's Boston Globe. Got that straight?
CNC is being sold to an Illinois-based publishing company called Liberty Group, according
to the story, which the Herald confirmed. The Herald has been losing money and says the sale of the profitable CNC
group will make it debt-free. The Herald bought CNC in 2001 from Fidelity Investments.
It's too early to say whether any drastic changes are ahead for the CNC papers, but the
encouraging news for those publications is that Liberty is at least in the business of putting out local newspapers. The buyout
expands its territory into New England, where Liberty has not been.
The Swellesley Report remains independently held.
BB
Friday, May 5, 2006
Tennis tourney this weekend in Wellesley
 The event takes place at the town courts Saturday and Sunday, with an optional clinic for participants at 9am each day. Money raised will support Tenacity, a program to bring tennis instruction to Boston's young people. Contact Nathan Green (ncgreen9@aol.com, 781 249 3185) or Daniel Verhave (dev9@aol.com, 781 223 1566) for more info. The event's draw is closed at this point, but observers are encouraged.
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Yeah we know about the override, but what about the birds?
 This week's Townsman letters section is jam-packed with pleas regarding the override vote that practically have our kids headed for dunceville
or our elders and lower-income residents being forced out of their homes and onto the streets because of higher taxes. Almost
lost among those letters is a request by one woman for cat
owners to bell their felines in order to save the birds that we've all been fattening up over the winter at our feeders. While
it appears too late to get a question about this on the ballot, we might have one solution for owners of especially feisty
cats that want to roam bell-free: Send 'em over our way to keep the Canada Geese in line.BB
Thursday, May 4, 2006
Goslings emerge on the Charles
Canada Geese family takes a swim on a misty Charles River.
Wellesley this weekend: Socrates, rummage sales, vernal pools and a road race
Blogging about chalking
The arrests of several Wellesley College students recently for chalking sidewalks has had bloggers and blog
readers around the Web buzzing. A sampling:
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Wednesday, May 3, 2006
The Council on Aging needs you
The council is looking for volunteers to help with reception, which includes answering phones, taking messages and registering seniors
for programs, plus collecting fees. Morning and afternoon shifts are available. Call 781 235 3961 for more info.
How Sun Life workers keep buff
The MetroWest Daily News profiles the Wellesley life insurance company for its attention to employee
fitness, which includes having an on-site personal trainer. "She's a cruel, cruel woman," says one employee
in the story.
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Dorset Tea & Coffee opens in Wellesley Hills: Take that Starbucks
 Seems those days of growing up in London left a big impression on sisters Sue and Sally Khudairi. They missed
having places to go for afternoon tea so much that they did something about it and this week opened a tea shop
at 352 Washington St. in Wellesley Hills (bearing the name of an English county). The shop serves a wide selection of hot drinks (as well as some cold
ones) Monday through Saturday on-site or for take-out. Breakfast and lunch are also served and available for take-out.
Tea sets and other items are also for sale.
Give the sisters credit for being on the ball. The shop has already made its presence felt at a few events such as the Boston Marathon and Wellesley's 125th
birthday party. Dorset Tea & Coffee also plans to have events of its own, including tastings. The shop has
its Web site up and running from the start with colorful bios of the tech-savvy sisters. We learn, for example, that: "An
A-List connoisseur, Sally's taste for luxury and pampering was refined over countless distinguished airlines, hotels, restaurants,
and spas spanning four continents."
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Babson prof weighs in on global warming
Even if governments start acting now it will take decades to make an impact on the forces of global
warming and solar cooling, neither of which is yet well understood, says Babson Prof. Ivor Morgan. Morgan
spent a couple of years as a surveyor in the Antarctic 40-plus years ago but continues to track what's taking place in the
region. Read the rest of his interview here with the Babson Free Press.
National Geographic, towel origami and more from the Miss Babson contest
Matthew Mashburn in the Babson Free Press reviews the Miss Babson pageant in which he writes that
"all applicants are both good looking and devilishly intelligent." Highlights included one contestant performing towel origami
and another answering the question about which one magazine cover she'd choose to be on: "National Geographic. I would say
Playboy, but mine are real." The rest...here.
BB
Monday, May 1, 2006
Kramer captures the 111th Wellesley College hoop-rolling contest
 An international relations and Spanish major named Allison Kramer beat out 200 fellow Wellesley College students to win the
school's annual hoop rolling race on Saturday morning. A softball star at the school, Kramer says her teammates helped
secure a good starting position, which was key to covering the 1/8 of a mile course first with her wooden hoop. Former champ
and current school president Diana Chapman Walsh presented Kramer with a bouquet of flowers for her victory. Kramer also got
tossed into Lake Waban (seen here, courtesy Wellesley College PR dept.). It used to be that the winner was said to be the
first to get married, though the updated story is that the winner will be the first to achieve success. Read more on Kramer and the tradition. BB
Wellesley waterfall proves to be bad hiding spot for theft suspect
Wellesley cops joined forces late last week with those from Needham and Newton, as well as with state police,
to nab a suspected thief from Waltham. The suspect was wanted in connection with break-ins on Washington St. and Michael Lane
in Wellesley. Authorities chased the suspect to the Wellesley Office Park, where he was found hiding next to waterfall.
More in this Daily News Tribune report.
Heads up: Summer recreation program sign-up approaching fast
Wellesley this week: Ann Coulter in town, authors galore and catching up with Socrates
Conservative pundit
Ann Coulter speaks tonight at Wellesley College at 7pm in Alumnae Hall. Free to the Wellesley College community,
$10 for others. Tickets must be purchased in advance...
The Authors
on Stage event takes place Thursday at the Wellesley College Club featuring Julie Moir Messervy, Janna Malamud Smith and Allegra Goodman. $20 for the event,
which includes a coffee gathering at 9:45am and presentations starting at 10:30am. Space is limited, reservations suggested,
lunch also an option. Call 781 455 8171... Wellesley College
Upstage presents the play "The Death & Life of Socrates"
at 7pm. (More shows over the weekend).... More calendar events here.
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Wellesley High competes in robotics tourney
But it was a group of Southborough youngsters --ages 8 to 11 -- who took home the top prize in the recent
New England Botball Tournament. Read more.
BB
More Wellesley chalk talk about arrests
The Boston Globe picks up on the story, which we weighed in on last week: Three Wellesley College students were arrested recently for writing peace slogans and symbols on town
sidewalks. Cops said they violated laws for defacement and tagging of public property and gave the young women a chance to
go if they cleaned up the writing, but arrested them after a debate began. The college held an open meeting that about
30 people attended to discuss the incident, though one student who was arrested told the Globe she isn't too optimistic
about the police changing or being very interested in dialogue after what she described as an "intimidating experience." More
here.
Young women with breast cancer band together
Carie Capossela of Wellesley is among the founding members of a support group called Thrive for women in their 20's, 30's and 40's who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. Capossela, who was diagnosed
at the age of 33 five years ago tells the Boston Globe about her experiences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
waiting room: "Everyone was staring at me because I look healthy, and people going through chemo have no hair. They knew I
was a patient because I was wearing a wristband." Read more by clicking here and scrolling down a bit.
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