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Monthly Archives: July 2009

Wellesley worker's inspiring running workout

By bbrown | Published: July 21, 2009

You have to give Seth Matheson, who works for an executive search firm in Wellesley, a ton of credit for the way he’s staring down multiple sclerosis and running marathons anyway. His workout is featured this week in a Wall Street Journal article.

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UPDATE: Posponed — Wellesley welcomes Willy Wonka to Warren Park

By bbrown | Published: July 20, 2009

The Recreation Dept. has postponed the outdoor movie until next Tuesday, July 28, due to rainy conditions. Wwwwwhew. The free outdoor movie is slated for Tuesday night, July 21 at Warren Park outside the Rec Department building at about 8:15pm.

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Composers invade Wellesley College campus

By bbrown | Published: July 20, 2009

You can enjoy a handful of free concerts and lectures over the next 2 weeks as composers visit Wellesley College for an annual conference. Roberto Sierra (Cornell University) and Tania Leon (City University of New York) are this summer’s special guest composers. Separately, Wellesley College has announced a dozen scholars for the 2009-2010 academic year [...]

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How to defend yourself on Wellesley's mean streets

By bbrown | Published: July 18, 2009

In Your Defense Martial Arts is opening soon alongside College Square Pizza in the spot occupied briefly by that organic baby stuff business.

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Wellesley's Linden Square gets another bank: Jos. A. Bank

By bbrown | Published: July 17, 2009

Jos. A. Bank, the men’s clothing store, is coming soon to the stretch of Linden Square housing California Pizza Kitchen. Can’t say this about too many places: have actually bought a sports coat there.

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Circus Smirkus in Wellesley this weekend

By bbrown | Published: July 17, 2009

Circus Smirkus is in town this weekend and the show is worth a look if you’ve never been. Have attended a few times and these kids put on a great show. It’s also fun to poke around Elm Bank off hours and there’s a good chance you’ll spy them practicing their mad juggling skills. Shows [...]

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Car theft free-for-all in Wellesley

By bbrown | Published: July 15, 2009

Wellesley Police report that last Thursday night it took 8 separate reports of motor vehicle break-ins in the High Meadow Circle area of town. Everything from GPS units to iPods to loose change was swiped. The police reported that all of the vehicles had been left unlocked, making things easy on the crooks.

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Bobby on Bobby's, Wellesley's newest restaurant

By bbrown | Published: July 13, 2009

The pizza joints crowding the Lower Falls end of  Wellesley will be glad to hear this about Bobby’s American Grille, the restaurant slated to open in mid-August at 11 Washington Street: No pizza. “I think that we will distinguish ourselves as the choice for local diners for our home-made recipes, beautiful decor, the fact that [...]

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SCORE! no more in Wellesley

By bbrown | Published: July 13, 2009

The SCORE! Educational Center at 99 Central St. in Wellesley has cleared out and For Lease signs are on the windows. SCORE! is now called Kaplan Tutoring, which is part of test prep and educational curriculum development company Kaplan, Inc. SCORE! had run an annual spelling bee for kids in town.

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Update on Cheney Bridge at Elm Bank Reservation

By bbrown | Published: July 10, 2009

Dropped by the DCR’s public meeting Thursday night regarding the project to refurbish the Cheney Bridge, the 60-foot bridge built in 1897 that provides access from Rte. 16 into Elm Bank Reservation on the Wellesley/Dover/Natick lines. A whopping 3 residents showed up, and were outnumbered by DCR officials and others involved in the project, which [...]

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Spiffing up the former Wellesley Inn site

By bbrown | Published: July 9, 2009

Diners at Blue Ginger now have a much nicer view thanks to a new white fence being erected to cover up the chain link fence and dust bowl where the Wellesley Inn once stood. Gussying up the area was part of the deal struck by the town and the outfit looking to build a housing/retail [...]

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Wellesley Roche Bros.: A deli even Mickey Rourke could love?

By bbrown | Published: July 9, 2009

Roche Bros. in Wellesley has a fancy new self-serve deli system called DeliVision in place now. Sounds like something Wellesleyites and even Mickey Rourke’s character in the movie “The Wrestler” would enjoy (sorry, you have to have seen this movie to get the reference to this scene about an over-the-hill wrestler working at a deli [...]

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Babson hosting Chernobyl Children

By bbrown | Published: July 8, 2009

The Bernon Center for Public Service at Babson College is sponsoring the Chernobyl Children’s Project on the school’s Wellesley campus Thursday, July 9th. Over 60 children affected by the Chernobyl disaster will be attending arts and crafts, games and sports activities from 4-6 PM on the Upper Fields.

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Wellesley is beginning of the end for many a TV

By bbrown | Published: July 8, 2009

Some start their demise at the Wellesley dump, as this Globe story spells out. What to do with old TVs is becoming a bigger problem as more people dump old ones for newfangled digital sets.

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Seen in Wellesley: Olympia Dukakis

By bbrown | Published: July 7, 2009

An excited reader wrote today to say he sat in front of Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis this morning at the Weston Road Cafe in Wellesley. There was no mistaking the “Moonstruck” star, reader JM wrote: “I’ve seen Moonstruck like 100 times… it was my grandmother’s favorite movie!” Dukakis, who was born in Lowell and [...]

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