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Remember when another kind of storm hit Wellesley last year?

The Boston Globe revisits the Wellesley Middle School mosque visit story about a year after a controversial video taken by a parent thrust the town and its religious curriculum into the national spotlight. This past spring students visited a mosque in Wayland instead of Roxbury like the year before, and made not a ripple of [...]

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What we missed: Not so Frank, Haynes on hot seat, rainouts, Wellesley openings & closings

The Swellesley Report slipped out of town two Fridays ago for an Orlando getaway –  almost as quietly as Wellesley Middle School Principal Joshua Frank announced that same day he planned to resign his post effective in July (apologies, but more tortured tie-ins between our vacation and Wellesley happenings ahead…). Frank filled big shoes by [...]

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What the future holds for Wellesley Middle School

You can get a peek at where the Wellesley Middle School renovation project is headed on Wednesday at 7:30pm at the middle school library. The meeting, hosted by the School Committee, will include  an update on the project, the construction plan and the approximate timeline.  At this time, the renovation project is scheduled to begin [...]

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“Footnotes” dance performance coming to Wellesley

From Wellesley Public Schools Performing Arts: The Wellesley High School Performing Arts Department presents the Moving Company in “Footnotes” a collaborative performance which brings together dancers from local schools and professional dance companies in a sharing and informative setting. A variety of dance styles will be featured. Student and faculty choreographies will be showcased. The [...]

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Willy Wonka coming to Wellesley Middle School this week, golden tickets and all

UPDATE: The 4:30pm Wednesday show has been postponed until 4:30pm on Thursday Wellesley Middle School students this Thursday (4:30pm) and Friday (7pm) will perform the musical “Willy Wonka.” Admission is free, though donations are welcome. Wonka Bars will be sold, and there will be 5 golden tickets in the bunch that can be exchanged for [...]

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Wellesley Free Library reading challenge

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Wellesley Middle School musicians perform at State House

Secretary of the Commonwealth, William Galvin, along with State Rep. Alice Peich welcomed Wellesley Middle School  studentsto the Massachusetts State House last week. The group performed holiday music on the Grand Staircase.

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Wellesley Special Town Meeting: One and done

Wellesley Town Meeting members dispatched the agenda items for Monday night’s Special Town Meeting with an efficiency not much unlike that displayed by the Patriots in their win over the Jets last night. After two-and-a-half hours, all motions were passed, including an amended one to spend $1.75 million to renovate Wellesley Middle School to accommodate [...]

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Fiddler on the Roof, Jr. coming to Wellesley Middle School

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Public forums on Wellesley Middle School renovations

The WMS School Building Committee will be hosting a Middle School Public Forum to inform the community about the Middle School Project to support the increasing enrollment on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010 at 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. at Great Hall at Town Hall. In addition, the Wellesley Town Advisory Committee will be soliciting feedback from [...]

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Wellesley Middle School sticker shock

Your Ad Here The only reason we feel comfortable showing this picture of the Wellesley Middle School yearbook — minus the sticker that had been covering up the unfortunate spelling error at the top — is because we’ve never made a typo ourselves…

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Back to drawing board on Wellesley Middle School capacity plan

The School Building Committee for Wellesley Middle School has invited neighbors of the school and other residents to two informational meetings at Town Hall next Wednesday to discuss options for boosting capacity to handle increased enrollment at the school. A plan to erect modular classroom space in the current parking lot on Donizetti St. met [...]

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Marauding middle school students

Wellesley Middle School Principal Joshua Frank alerted parents that during Wednesday’s early release day “a large number of WMS students crowded into CVS and Roche Brothers, without consideration for adult customers, and some of them began to steal candy and inappropriately sample various products.  The staff at CVS had no choice but to call the [...]

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Wellesley Middle School to reprise gold medal winning play “Perfect”

From WMS drama, regarding a free reprisal of “Perfect” to be performed at Wellesley Middle School, Thursday May 6 at 7pm: Twenty two talented actors from the 7th and 8th grades at Wellesley Middle School won a gold medal in Mendon, MA on Saturday May 1 at the 2010 Massachusetts Middle School Drama Festival. They [...]

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Wellesley Middle School modular classroom debate heats up

Those in favor of building modular classrooms at Wellesley Middle School to handle an expected enrollment increase are butting heads with some neighbors of the school dreading the prospect of increased traffic congestion and general ugliness of the surroundings. The topic (item #20) is up for discussion at Town Meeting, which continues this week (a [...]

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