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Wellesley High singers perform national anthem at Friday’s Celtics game

By bbrown | Published: January 14, 2012

UPDATE (1/15/12): Here’s a picture of the students at the game and below, a YouTube video. Wellesleyites not only get to root for neighbor Ray Allen at tonight’s Boston Celtics game against the Chicago Bulls, but also for Wellesley High School’s Keynote Singers, who will be performing the National Anthem before the game. Kevin McDonald, [...]

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Wellesley Public Schools roundup: More CORI, tallying lunch debts, easier agenda access

By bbrown | Published: January 12, 2012

The Wellesley Public Schools have been prodded into divulging more and more info these days about its operations in the wake of the well documented negative series of events that have led to closer public inspection through audits and such groups as the Concerned Parents of Wellesley.  The latest: *School Superintendent Bella Wong during the [...]

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Wellesley High football coach steps down

By bbrown | Published: January 12, 2012

Bill Tracey has resigned as Wellesley High School’s head football coach after 10 seasons at the helm, and the school plans to post the job opening next week, according to a Metrowest Daily News report. The team had its best record under Tracey in 2009, when it went 9-2. Tracey also teaches industrial technology at [...]

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Wellesley elementary school teacher in search of spring housing

By bbrown | Published: January 11, 2012

A 4th grade teacher at Wellesley’s Upham Elementary School, returning from maternity leave in April, is on the hunt for temporary housing in the area and asked for our help in spreading the word. She’s looking for a furnished place (such as an in-law apartment or carriage house) to house  herself, her infant and husband [...]

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2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan visiting Wellesley College

By bbrown | Published: January 10, 2012

Wellesley College’s Newhouse Center for the Humanities late next month will feature Jennifer Egan, winner of the 2011 Pulizer Prize for her novel A Visit From the Goon Squad, as part of its Distinguished Writer Series (I can honestly claim to have read this book and another of hers). Her talk will take place at [...]

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Spectacular views: Inside the new Wellesley High School

By dcb | Published: January 7, 2012

Introducing Wellesley’s new high school.  Its 280,000 square feet are designed to educate 1,600 students. Some 459,000 hours of work have resulted in, among other things, the very latest in ventilation,  a 700-seat auditorium, and a  gym that will allow 1,800 people to occupy it on a rainy graduation day.  The new Wellesley High School is lean [...]

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Wellesley Summer Theatre’s “Season’s Greetings” delivers post-holiday gift

By dcb | Published: January 6, 2012

Christmas comes but once a year with good reason, as Alan Ayckbourn’s dark comedy, “Season’s Greetings,” put on by The Wellesley Summer Theatre Company, reminds us. Everything about the setting and circumstances seems typically English — relatives are gathered to celebrate Christmas. There is a well-stocked home bar and a nearby pub, which, under ordinary [...]

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Wellesley School Committee, parents have fruitful face-to-face

By bbrown | Published: January 5, 2012

A public meeting held Wednesday night at Wellesley Middle School allowed Wellesley parents and other residents to ask School Committee members direct questions regarding the most pressing issues to surface over the past year, including criminal background checks on employees, the state of the new food service company and vacation policy for school department employees. [...]

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“Season’s Greetings” starts up this week at Wellesley Summer Theatre

By bbrown | Published: January 3, 2012

From Wellesley College’s Wellesley Summer Theatre: “It’s Christmas in suburban London, and things couldn’t be going less well for Belinda and Neville and their disfunctional relatives. This black comedy features furtive trysts under the tree, a horrifying puppet show and a few madcap mistaken assumptions. Join us for the holiday festivities as we laugh at [...]

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Wellesley High grad to share South Sudan experiences

By bbrown | Published: January 3, 2012

Sam Boland, a recent Wellesley High School grad who has taken a gap year working in South Sudan, will share his experiences during a presentation and reception on Jan. 5 from 6-8pm at St. Andrew’s Church on Denton Road. Boland’s role in South Sudan has been as program assistant for Massachusetts General Hospital’s Division of [...]

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Wellesley has new ways to spread joyous school cancellation news

By bbrown | Published: December 22, 2011

From Wellesley Public Schools and Wellesley Police Department: Wellesley Public Schools and the Wellesley Police Department are pleased to announce that school cancellation notices will now be available through text messages and email. The Wellesley Police Department’s Community Notification System also includes text and email alerts about Wellesley traffic delays, crime and emergency alerts, power [...]

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Old Wellesley High School won’t implode

By bbrown | Published: December 21, 2011

Wellesley Celebrates Education rolled out a series of excellent events to commemorate the closing of the current Wellesley High School building and has more in store for celebrating the opening of the new Wellesley High School next year. But we wondered if the ultimate spectacle — an implosion of the 1938 building — might be [...]

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Wellesley’s Schofield School breathing easier thanks to air quality fixes

By bbrown | Published: December 19, 2011

Wellesley’s Schofield Elementary School students, teachers and other employees are breathing easier after steps have been taken to improve the air quality at the school. Concerned Parents of Wellesley has passed along a note from Schofield’s PTO that details changes made to the school’s ventilation system. It reads in part: “I am pleased to report [...]

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Sneak peek: Wellesley Davis Museum readies for Radcliffe Bailey exhibit

By bbrown | Published: December 15, 2011

Wellesley College’s Davis Museum is ramping up for the northeast premiere of artist Radcliffe Bailey’s exhibit, called Memory as Medicine, running Feb. 15-May 6. A free opening reception will be held from 5-7pm on Feb. 15. Museum director Lisa Fischman says in a statement: “Bailey’s art, informed by a strong social and historical consciousness and [...]

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$61K in new Wellesley education grants: Apple gear, gene sequencing, digital microscopes & more

By bbrown | Published: December 12, 2011

Wellesley Education Foundation, a nonprofit outfit that funds new programs/classes in the Wellesley Public School system as well as supports the core curriculum, has announced its Fall round of grants: District-wide Awards iPads for Language Development For English Language Learning students, WEF will help facilitate language development and allow students to access the curriculum while [...]

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