Category Archives: Politics

The Board of Selectmen will convene a Special Town Meeting at Wellesley Middle School on Monday, Nov. 14 at 7:30 P.M. The warrant for the meeting will close at 5:00 pm on Friday, Sept. 30. Anyone desiring to have an article included in the warrant should submit a petition signed by not less than 100 [...]

UPDATE: More than 50 Newton and Wellesley residents  gathered in Wellesley Sept. 1st to encourage Elizabeth Warren’s candidacy for the 2012 U.S. Senate race. Hosts included Deborah Fogel and Jeri Okamura of Newton and Cynthia Curtis and Dona Bolding of Wellesley. (photo by Marc Fogel)     Supporters of having consumer advocate/Harvard law professor Elizabeth [...]

Moody’s Investor Service has threatened to review the triple-A credit rating of Wellesley and 162 other local governments that could be impacted by the debt crisis facing the federal government, whose own triple-A bond rating is under review. Wellesley’s in good company, with Brookline, Dover and Newton also on the watch list. “The ratings of [...]

Wellesley did its best to add a little excitement to today’s  special election involving whether or not to approve a debt exclusion (higher taxes) to fund a DPW building spruce-up. At Precinct G at Wellesley Free Library voters got to take part in a bit of a scavenger hunt for voting booths by winding around [...]

A special election will be held in Wellesley on May 18 to decide whether to fund a new $3.6M Department of Public Works building on Rte. 9 via a debt exclusion (i.e., roughly $29 annual tax increase per household, at least at the start). Somehow, we can’t envision this vote will result in a lot [...]

Given that Wellesley’s population grew more than 5% between 2000 and 2010 to nearly 28,000 people, according to the latest U.S. Census data, we’re getting an additional precinct. The Board of Selectmen has been working with GIS staff and the Town Clerk to prepare alternate mapping scenarios for 8 precincts. There’s plenty of trickiness involved in [...]

Wellesley Annual Town Meeting begins March 28 at 7:30 pm at Wellesley Middle School Auditorium. Additional sessions will occur on Monday and Tuesday nights until the business of the Meeting is concluded.(No sessions April 18/19) The Warrant and Advisory Committee reports can be found here Wellesley has a Representative Town Meeting. The Members are elected [...]

Wellesley voters gave Gig Babson and Barbara Searle 3 more years on the Board of Selectman in a light turnout at the polls today. Challenger Andrew Pernokas, a Boston University student, gave it a good run, finishing 3rd. Preliminary results show Babson with 1,387 votes, Searle with 1,324 and Pernokas with 1,004. In the other [...]

The Annual Town Election for Wellesley will take place on March 1.  Polls are open 7 am – 8 pm in all polling places. This election chooses the membership of town wide boards and town meeting. More information on the candidates running for election and location of polling places can be found at http://www.wellesleyma.gov/Pages/WellesleyMA_Clerk/voterinfo The [...]