Past artists entertaining students during Spring Week have included the Decemberists and Regina Spektor.

The Google bicycle maps program is in beta testing. It features icons you can click on to get Google Earth pictures that zoom in on your route.

WCVB TV/Channel 5’s Team 5 takes on the case of Wellesley’s most notorious bridge project, the never-ending Rte. 16/9 mess. The report notes that the project has cost taxpayers $10M-plus dollars and taken 7 years rather than originally planned 2. Latest estimate for completion: this summer. Rep. Alice Peisch, speaking for the rest of Wellesley, says she’ll believe it when she sees it.

* Town Meeting will vote on a series of capital projects that include adding on to Wellesley Middle School to accommodate rising enrollment, fixing flooring at the Central St. fire department, constructing or refurbishing Municipal Light Plant Administration and DPW buildings, and fixing sewer lines.

* Possible changes to the Wellesley Police Department’s contract, mainly including Civil Service exam restrictions in hiring.

* Possible zoning changes, including amendment of the Large House Review rules that include new ways of measuring attics and basements.

* Voting on a town-wide sustainable energy plan

A special Town Meeting on April 12 will deal with the town’s proposed purchase of land at 494 Washington St. that would be used to support parking at the planned new senior center. If the senior center doesn’t wind up going there, the land could be used for another purpose, like public space.

More than 100 quilts made by 50 members from Wellesley and surrounding towns will be on display, with  styles ranging from traditional patchwork to more contemporary fabric art.

Visitors will be invited to vote for their favorites and kids can play a scavenger hunt, looking for shapes and symbols on the quilts.  Vendors will be present for those who might want to start their own projects.

Call Jane Evans at 781-444-9575 or visit the club’s website for more info.

Shown: Gloria Johnston, Lauren Johnston, Julie Wolkoff (current QQ President), Becky Reed, Haiyan Newton, Teresa Matias, Adele Beggs, and Martha Cunningham

Separately, Wellesley Booksmith will be hosting its second Knit-a-Thon on March 27, ” when customers can knit amongst the books while listening to and enjoying  the company of fellow fiber artists.”   Kristin Nicholas (COLOR BY KRISTIN), Gail Callahan (HAND DYEING YARN AND FLEECE), Melissa Morgan Oakes (2-AT-A-TIME SOCKS),  Wren Ross (CHANGING PATTERNS) and Jill Stover (co-owner of Yarns in the Farms) will be among those on hand to share their secrets.

The Knit-a-Thon presentations and consultations are free (with the exception of a workshop) and open to the public, but each event will be ticketed because capacity is limited.  Drop-ins are welcome, but those with tickets are admitted first. A detailed schedule will be posted on www.wellesleybooksmith.com shortly.  Call 781 431-1160 or email events@wellesleybooksmith.com to RSVP.

Townsman readers flooded the paper’s website with negative reaction to the column and the paper pulled them down. Townsman editor Cathy Brauner told the Globe that readers should instead express their thoughts the old fashioned way and mail or drop off letters to the Townsman.