Monthly Archives: July 2009

Jaws postponed till July 14

By bbrown | Published: July 7, 2009

Rain has postponed the planned outdoor movie night at the Recreation Department to next Tuesday night.

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Wellesley College on prowl for Davis Museum director

By bbrown | Published: July 6, 2009

Wellesley College has issued a job posting on the Davis Museum and Cultural Center website, on Monster.com and elsewhere as it looks to hire its first full-time director since David Mickenberg resigned last September in the wake of the museum losing a valuable Fernand Leger painting. The posting reads in part: “The Director will provide [...]

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Wellesley broadcast exec gets Q&A treatment

By bbrown | Published: July 5, 2009

Bill Fine, president and general manager of WCVB-TV (Channel 5), and its website, TheBostonChannel.com, answers questions about everything from his on-air editorials to how much TV he watches in this Q&A with the Boston Globe. Fine lives in Wellesley with his wife and 3 children.

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Happy 4th of July

By bbrown | Published: July 5, 2009

A Wellesley fire engine graces Natick’s painfully slow July 4 parade.

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Wellesley well represented at Patriots' Hall

By bbrown | Published: July 3, 2009

The New England Patriots’ Hall at Patriot Place in Foxborough isn’t a bad rainy day activity for football fans. Plenty of fun interactive stuff for kids, and lots of memorabilia for oldsters. Anyway, glad to see Wellesley well represented in exhibits on New England football history, though unfortunately, as the score on this football shows, [...]

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Wellesley State Sen. Creem in pivotal alimony law role

By bbrown | Published: July 3, 2009

Boston Magazine takes a harsh look at the state’s alimony laws and one man’s efforts to reform them. The article says one big obstacle to reform is State Sen. Cynthia Stone Creem, who represents Wellesley, Newton and Brookline. A handful of readers on the Boston Magazine website say Creem has a conflict of interest in [...]

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Wellesley among easy targets on the Web

By bbrown | Published: July 2, 2009

The Boston Globe rounds up a story on Wellesley and other local communities headlined “Virtual smackdowns: Cross-border rivalries spill onto the Internet, where even residents have fun tweaking hometowns that carry their cross-border rivalries onto the Web.” And yes, the reporter clearly did her homework…including our site in the story.

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Latest sign of the times in Wellesley: no loaners

By bbrown | Published: July 2, 2009

Lee Volvo is temporarily not offering loaner cars to customers who need to drop off their vehicles to have work done on them. The cost-cutting move was made in part to save jobs. The car dealer is, however, still offering customers rides to/from their homes/work after dropping off their cars for service.

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Jaws coming to Wellesley

By bbrown | Published: July 1, 2009

Free outdoor movie scheduled for dusk on July 7 at Warren Park (Recreation Department). Rated PG. Should be held at Morses Pond…

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Wellesley police report bank robbery suspects caught

By bbrown | Published: July 1, 2009

Two suspects were nailed following a bank robbery in Needham today, and authorities believe these half-brothers might be connected to the U30 Bandit robberies in Wellesley and elsewhere in recent months. An investigation is underway.

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Wellesley police investigate chimney sweeping scam

By bbrown | Published: July 1, 2009

It’s a dirty job, but… in this case the cops say a $49 chimney sweeping deal sounded too good to be true. A resident says high pressure sales tactics ensued, as did an eventual $2,000 bill.

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