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Monthly Archives: December 2008

Live from New York it's Wellesley High grad Michaela Watkins on SNL!

By bbrown | Published: December 18, 2008

Saturday Night Live recently added 2 cast members, one of whom is Michaela Watkins, a Wellesley High grad in the late 1980s. She was a member of the Groundlings comedy troupe and various TV shows, and now has hit it big with a regular gig on SNL.  Among other things, she portrays Arianna Huffington on [...]

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The scoop on poop

By bbrown | Published: December 18, 2008

The Townsman attended this week’s Natural Resources Commission meeting, which included discussion of dogs running free at Perrin Park and it sounds like things got pretty animated from their story, which features more puns and plays on words than we’ve seen since coverage of the great Dunkin’ Donuts debate of 2006.  Bottom line is there’s [...]

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Even Blue Ginger is scaling back

By bbrown | Published: December 17, 2008

The Herald has a story on area chefs/restaurants reining in their New Year’s Eve menus, bubbly, etc. Blue Ginger’s Ming Tsai says: “We’re toning it down,” said chef Ming Tsai, owner of Blue Ginger in Wellesley. “We aren’t going to bring in the extravagance of Ossetra caviar, truffles, foie gras and all of those incredibly [...]

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Ben Folds in town?

By bbrown | Published: December 17, 2008

We hear the singer was in Wellesley today, which isn’t too much of a surprise since he announced recently that he’d be doing some recording with the Wellesley College Blue Notes a cappella group.

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Grand opening: Wellesley lawn/yard art gallery

By bbrown | Published: December 17, 2008

Are we missing any good ones? If so, email pictures here.

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Not into Netflix

By bbrown | Published: December 17, 2008

Saw the Globe ran an article summing up the favorite DVD picks of Netflix customers in different Boston neighborhoods, so figured we’d check on the Wellesley stats. No dice. The site says not enough people in 02481 or 02482 made selections, though it does provide Natick and local area favorites. No. 1 on that list: [...]

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Consolation prize for "Vote No" backers

By bbrown | Published: December 16, 2008

Not all is lost for those opposing the debt exclusion to fund the new Wellesley High School project that won overwhelmingly last week. The School Building Committee has announced it is in the process of forming an Historical Preservation Working Group “whose primary objective will be to inventory items in the current high school to [...]

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Wellesley's Sheridan Hills section gets bloggy

By bbrown | Published: December 16, 2008

The Sheridan Hills Association for the section of Wellesley near MassBay Community College/Oakland St./Cedar St., etc., has created a web site with a calendar of events (bunco, parties and more), blog postings and a neighbor directory.

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Roche Bros. really wants your deli order

By bbrown | Published: December 15, 2008

The Wellesley-based grocery store chain says it will begin installing DeliVision, a system, which includes a self-serve kiosk designed to cut down lines at the deli counter and ensure that Roche Bros. doesn’t lose sales from customers who don’t feeling like sticking around. Westwood and West Roxbury stores are getting the system first.

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Still time to catch the train…

By bbrown | Published: December 15, 2008

Wellesley Historical Society has its model trains display running through Dec. 20 at Faber’s Rug at 9 Central St. in Wellesley. The schedule to see the trains run is 9:30-11:40am Dec. 15, 10:30-noon and 1-2:30 on Dec. 16, 11:30-noon and 1-4:30 on Dec.17, 10:30-noon and 1-2:30 on Dec. 18, 10:30-noon and 1-4:30 on Dec.19 and [...]

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Waste…..want not

By bbrown | Published: December 14, 2008

Interesting piece in the Boston Globe today on how demand for recycled materials has dwindled in light of the economy, forcing the Welelsley RDF and other local recycling outfits to store materials until demand picks up. From the story: Wellesley is storing nine truckloads, or 216 tons, of cardboard. Martin held onto the cardboard for [...]

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One way to have an old-fashioned Christmas

By bbrown | Published: December 14, 2008

Wellesley-based i-concepts has been selling prints, shirts and other merchandise based on old photography, artwork and other memorabilia from non-profits such as museums and libraries since 2004. The feel-good spin here is that the non-profits generate revenue via royalties, get exposure for their organizations and might even inspire more donations. i-concepts now has also begun [...]

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WCAC-TV dishes out awards

By bbrown | Published: December 14, 2008

Wellesley’s local cable channel held its annual awards dinner last week, and among the winners was Peter Marx, producer of “Business Insight,” who was recognized for outstanding service. Marx is shown here (left to right) alongside Jessica Schumann, Public Access Coordinator for WCAC, and Greg Story, Sports Producer for WCAC.

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How much would you pay to ride this bus?

By bbrown | Published: December 12, 2008

A forum will be held Dec. 16 at 7:30pm at Wellesley Town Hall to discuss possible changes to school transportation, including new buses and bus fees, etc. Here’s what was presented to the Wellesley School Committee earlier this week.

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Catching up on really old Wellesley news, thanks to Google

By bbrown | Published: December 12, 2008

Google is forging ahead with the digitization of everything, including more magazines. The beauty of having all this stuff, including old newspaper articles, online is that it makes it so much easier to catch up on stories you might have missed before you were born or back when you were a youngster. A sampling, which [...]

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