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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Boston Magazine's Best of Wellesley
Boston Magazine has recognized four popular Wellesley spots in its annual Best of Boston edition for being the best west of Boston: Ardan: Day spa The Cheese Shop: Gourmet shop I.D. Salon: Hair salon Wellesley Center: Shopping spot
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Concert nixed
Tonight’s concert on the town green in Wellesley has been cancelled.
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We found one! We found one!
Home sales have been hard to come by in Wellesley of late, according to the latest Warren Group numbers. Last June 48 single-family homes were sold in town, but this June the number is just 37, down 22%. However, the median price has snuck up to $1.2 million from a little over a million. Statewide, [...]
Snow job?
The Shell Station on Rte. 9 at Overbrook Drive is becoming the new hotspot in town. Last week a driver rammed into the station. This week, the Wellesley and Natick public safety officials responded to a smoky and apparently snowy scene. Turns out workers trying to fix the damage from last week’s crash accidentally set [...]
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Where Babson, Wellesley College rank
The Princeton Review has released its latest college ranking book, which names Wellesley College’s campus as the 8th most beautiful and the school as the 8th most stone sober (non-party school), and which lists Babson as a great value school. The book is based on a survey of 122,000 students at 371 colleges.
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Grossman's nature preserve?
A few weeks back when we called attention to the shiny new fence erected to cover up the Wellesley Inn hole, a reader wrote to say: That’s swell, but how come we can’t get the owner of the old Grossman’s lot to do something similar. Well, the problem is that the town had leverage over [...]
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Close call for Wellesley cop
Wellesley Police Officer Ron Poirier had to be feeling lucky after a huge tree fell across Cedar Street earlier this month late at night and just missed crushing his car and maybe him. The tree did take out a stone retaining wall and bent a steel pole, according to police. (Photo via Wellesley PD)
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EPA's pay day comes years after Morses Pond cleanup
The Environmental Protection Agency has been awarded $2.9 million plus interest from an insurance company that inherited a lawsuit filed against Boston & Albany Railroad in 2005 related to contamination of the area between Morses Pond and Paintshop Pond in Wellesley. The EPA removed 3,000 tons (!) of chromium-contaminated soil and sediment between 2000 and [...]
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Zebra mussels not showing their stripes in Wellesley
I guess this is a kinda non-news story. Having heard and read about the latest zebra mussel scare out in the Berkshires, I was wondering whether this invasive species has dared to take a dip in any of Wellesley’s watering holes or water ways. Janet Bowser, who heads up the Natural Resources Commission in town, [...]
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Wellesley's places of worship
Wellesley has some old places of worship. Wellesley also has some old worshippers. The Globe has chosen to take pictures of the buildings (and ones in Newton). Here’s a link to their slideshow and a list of local places of worship.
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Painting the town pink
I saw these Pink Ladies strolling up Rte. 135 the other day but wasn’t in a position to stop and stare and take pictures. The Townsman was and here’s a YouTube video documenting the breast cancer awareness effort.
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Exclusive savings tip for Wellesley antiques show this weekend
If you grab an online coupon here you can save a whole dollar on Saturday’s $8 adult admission to the Antiques at Elm Bank show. If you get together and do this with about 50 or 100 of your friends, you might even be able to put the savings toward buying an old dish or [...]
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Wellesley filmmaker's "Ten9Eight" examines promise of today's teens
Mary Mazzio’s latest film, “Ten9Eight,” debuted recently at the Aspen Ideas Festival and is slated for full release this fall. A synopsis of the film on Mazzio’s website for Ten9Eight goes like this: “In America, a kid drops out of high school every 9 seconds. Imagine if they didn’t. This is the compelling question behind [...]
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Wellesley College concert schedule released