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Sad news being reported out of North Carolina: 21-year-old Matthew Grape of Wellesley, Mass., died in a one-car accident early this morning near Duke University in Durham. Grape, who attended Noble and Greenough School and was a senior at Duke, was a passenger in the SUV. The driver has been charged with driving while impaired. [...]

UPDATE: Wellesley police reported that the park has been re-opened and the situation resolved as of Thursday afternoon. Wellesley police are joining forces with Dover and Wellesley fire department personnel to address a hazardous materials problem at Elm Bank Reservation on the Wellesley/South Natick/Dover line at Rte. 16 (technically, the incident is in Dover, though [...]

Wellesley acknowledged the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a ceremony Sunday at the fire department headquarters on Rte. 9, and flags hung at half staff across town.

It’ll soon be readin’ & writin’ and Russian Math in Wellesley, as the Russian School of Mathematics expands into Wellesley Hills at 376 Washington St. (the space at one time housed a financial services firm). The school, led by principal Andrew Gorlin, will offer K-12 classes, initially beginner-level ones as of Oct. 1. Students at [...]

From the Wellesley RDF: In response to the damage from Hurricane Irene with a number of tree branches down on both public and private properties, the Wellesley DPW is working to clean up the public streets, sidewalks and playing fields. Residents may take brush from their own property to the RDF. To assist residents, the [...]

Readers have been sending in photos from Hurricane Irene’s impact on Wellesley to supplement our own: Paul M. says Summit Road’s power was knocked out when this happened. This tree got flattened on the sidewalk of Washington Street near where the New Republic Bank is opening soon. This Weston Road tree uprooting is impressive, especially [...]

Wellesley Police report that about 500 customers are without power and that 10 utility poles have collapsed. Crews are working to restore power, but as of late afternoon, it was expected power would remain out for many for at least several hours. On the bright side, you won’t be tempted to watch the local news [...]

If Wellesley’s Karen Haberly was going to have her trees and bushes pruned this weekend, she was going to do it her way, not Hurricane Irene’s. Here’s the impressive result.

Wellesley Police report that aftershocks from the 5.9 magnitude earthquake that struck the southern area of Washington DC and northern Virginia are being felt in the metro Wellesley area (the police aren’t aware of any local damage/injuries). One Twitter user, @Dionysia8, tweeted: “Yes! I’m in Wellesley and the whole office building shook” A visitor to [...]

Elizabeth Hunnewell, she of Wellesley’s first family, shares in this week’s Boston Globe Magazine the harrowing yet rewarding tale of going from Warm Mahogany to Silver Birch hair color. Her new hair color even elicited a “Hubba-hubba” from her roofer. RELATED: Another Hunnewell makeover

While we hate to remind you that school starts the last week of August in Wellesley, the new school year also will be cause for celebration for many as the town bids farewell to the current Wellesley High School and welcomes the new one. A spiffy new website dubbed Wellesley Celebrates Education will serve as [...]

Reader Cherie H kindly passed along this picture of a car planted atop a little island in front of the Linden Street Dunkin’ Donuts in Wellesley today. No word on whether Wellesley police fought each other over answering that call. Got pics? Send em here: theswellesleyreport@gmail.com RELATED: Drugs and doughnuts: CVS and Dunkin’ Donuts vie [...]

New research from online advertising network Chitika shows that Wellesley-ites are wild about Apple Macs, with more than a third of computers in town made by Apple. The Boston Herald picked up on the report, which notes that Apple has about 7.2% of the U.S. market. Chitika gets its numbers from monitoring which types of [...]

Babson College, which for years has been ranked as having the most entrepreneurial MBA program in the country, has announced an overhaul of its program to better prepare students to deal with a more global and technology-focused economy. US News & World Report has written about the changes, pointing out that other top business schools [...]

The Wellesley Police Department has passed along the following: The National Weather Service has issued a Tornado Watch until 8PM for most of Massachusetts, including Norfolk County and Wellesley.  Strong thunderstorms are expected in the Wellesley area between 4 and 5 PM. A watch merely means that conditions are such that a tornado could possibly [...]