Category Archives: Wellesley High School

Wellesley High open house/yard sale Saturday

By bbrown | Published: November 26, 2011

If Black Friday wasn’t enough to satisfy your shopping appetite, swing by Wellesley High School on Saturday for its open house and yard sale from noon-4pm, where old uniforms, lockers, microscopes, pop-poms and more will be for sale as part of the Turn Out the Lights celebration for the old building. A variety of freshly-minted [...]

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Wellesley boys, girls fall to Needham in football

By bbrown | Published: November 24, 2011

Needham High School’s football team clinched a playoff berth by downing Wellesley High 42-18 on Thanksgiving Day.  Wellesley fans might have wished they’d celebrated a little more when they had they chance, as the Raiders went up 6-0 on a touchdown before things went downhill. The game drew a big crowd of alumni visiting town [...]

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Sneak peek at new Wellesley High School lobby

By bbrown | Published: November 21, 2011

A little birdie, and not the metal eagle weathervane that once soared above the tower on the old Wellesley High School and is now shown below, caught a glimpse of a stunning new logo and other aspects of the new Wellesley High School lobby. The new building is opening to students in February and will [...]

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Slightly beyond Wellesley: WHS grads discuss foreign policy Tuesday

By bbrown | Published: November 21, 2011

From Wellesley Turn Out the Lights celebration committee: Wellesley High School welcomes back four of its most accomplished graduates in the area of international relations for the panel discussion “U.S. Foreign Policy: Making It, Executing It, Analyzing It and Covering It.” The panelists will be Kennedy School professor and former diplomat Nicholas Burns, WHS class [...]

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World premiere of Wellesley High architectural video packs em in

By bbrown | Published: November 20, 2011

The first public showing of a video about the architecture of the 1938 Wellesley High School building attracted a near-full auditorium at Wellesley Free Library on Sunday despite the beautiful weather outside. For those who didn’t get a chance to attend, the documentary is available on DVD for $15. I found the video interesting since [...]

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Talkin’ turkey day football: Wellesley vs. Needham

By bbrown | Published: November 18, 2011

A folksy-sounding Web radio program called High School Football America chats up Wellesley High School football coach Bill Tracey regarding the annual Wellesley-Needham football game, which at 124 years this time around is the oldest such rivalry in the country. Wellesley leads the series 59-55, with 9 ties tossed in. This year Wellesley has only [...]

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Wellesley High School jazz musicians to play TCAN

By bbrown | Published: November 12, 2011

The Wellesley High School Rice Street Singers, along with the 1:00 and 2:00 Jazz Bands, will be performing with jazz vocalist Alyssa Jones at The Center for Arts in Natick on Monday, Nov. 21 at 7pm.  All three of these high school groups have won gold medals in state competitions and have all performed at [...]

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Wellesley High football road trip

By bbrown | Published: November 6, 2011

We took in Wellesley High’s football game vs. the Natick Red & Blue at Natick on chilly Friday night. Wellesley got off to a 7-0 lead thanks to a turnover, had one spectacular one-handed interception and fought back pretty well in the 2nd half, but Natick was clearly the stronger team in a 39-20 win [...]

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Billy Squier to rock Wellesley this month

By bbrown | Published: November 4, 2011

Classic rocker Billy Squier, who grew up in Wellesley and graduated from Wellesley High in 1968, has signed on for the Performing Arts Showcase taking place at Wellesley High on Nov. 26 as part of the town’s Turn Out the Lights celebration. Tickets have been selling fast for the event, which will showcase a host [...]

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MetroWest Adolescent Health Survey Results now online

By bbrown | Published: October 17, 2011

Read the gory and not-so-gory details about what Wellesley students say they are up to behind closed doors and sometimes out in the open. More than 2,000 Wellesley middle school and high school students took the MetroWest Adolescent Health Survey last fall and the results were presented last month at a School Committee meeting.  Substance [...]

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Wellesley High student weighs in on wild night football game

By bbrown | Published: October 5, 2011

A Wellesley High School senior who is managing editor for The Bradford, the school newspaper, shares her thoughts on what has turned out to be the nonstop conversation about a night football game in town last month — and not for what happened on the field. The student writes in part: “The happenings raised many [...]

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Wellesley hoopster Cooper Ainge following in dad’s footsteps to BYU

By bbrown | Published: October 4, 2011

Wellesley High School senior basketball guard Cooper Ainge next year is reportedly heading to Brigham Young University, where he will play for the basketball team that his father — former Boston Celtics player Danny Ainge — played for in the late 1970s/early 1980s. The Recruit Scoop blog says he doesn’t have a scholarship yet. BYU’s [...]

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Way better than graffiti: Engrave a brick at new Wellesley High School

By bbrown | Published: September 30, 2011

The Wellesley Education Foundation, along with the Wellesley Celebrates Education Committee, is offering you the chance to leave your mark on the new Wellesley High School by purchasing an engraved brick that will be used to pave the plaza in front of the new building. The tax-deductible bricks cost $125 (half the price of the [...]

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Wellesley Public Schools #11 in 2011, says Boston magazine

By bbrown | Published: August 29, 2011

Boston magazine has named Wellesley as the 11th best public school district in Massachusetts in its September issue, which hits newsstands Tuesday. The ranking is based on data collected from the schools and their websites, as well as from the state on 135 districts’ elementary, middle and high schools. The rankings take into account data [...]

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Wellesley teen DJs, er presents, on Internet radio

By bbrown | Published: June 16, 2011

Wellesley High School student Chris Ulian loves all kinds of music and he’s getting a chance to share his favorite tunes with 20,000 listeners a month around the world by hosting an Internet radio show that plays on U.K. stations Off The Chart Radio and Galaxy 24/7 (see those websites for schedules). Ulian, who goes [...]

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