The Swellesley Report - Since 2005: More than you really want to …
WEBLate last year the Town of Wellesley selected a consulting firm to conduct an equity audit funded through a $100K Annual Town Meeting appropriation.The firm, Racial Equity Group, is the same outfit that conducted a couple of equity audit workshops for Wellesley in spring 2023. Going forward town leaders, with help from Racial Equity Group, will host Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) focus ...
Crime Archives - The Swellesley Report
WEBMarch 7, 2024 by Bob Brown. The latest Wellesley Police log incidents and arrests: On January 26, 2024 at 4:40 p.m. an officer was dispatched toa bank on Linden Street for a report of a male party who had come into the bank around 2:45 p.m. who asked to exchange $4,300 in $50 bills to $100 bills.
Obituaries & remembrances Archives - The Swellesley Report
WEBRobert Freeman McKown, 87, of Concord, Mass., passed away on July 12, 2024, surrounded by his loving family. Bob was born on August 25, 1936, in Bar Harbor, Maine, and lived a life marked by his passions for family, competition, and the sea. Bob spent his early years in the picturesque town of Bar Harbor …
Restaurants in Wellesley, Mass.: More than 50 dining options
WEB50 Central Street, Wellesley Square, 781-772-1920. DR/P is open on weekends only to serve coffee, espresso drinks, lattes, teas, and specialty drinks like the Golden Girl + Iced Coco Matcha. The storefront spot is a part of B/SPOKE cycle, strength and yoga studio. Dryft —new restaurant.
Wellesley High grads told: “You’re not special”
WEBJun 5, 2012 · All of this is as it should be, because none of you is special. You are not special. You are not exceptional. Contrary to what your u9 soccer trophy suggests, your glowing seventh grade report card, despite every assurance of a certain corpulent purple dinosaur, that nice Mister Rogers and your batty Aunt Sylvia, no matter how often your maternal caped crusader has swooped in to save you ...
Top 10 things to do in Wellesley, Massachusetts
WEBWellesley’s Wonderful Weekend, an annual town tradition that has been celebrated for over 50 years, usually in late May. Activities include a pancake breakfast, a military decampment re-enactment, musical performances and the annual Veterans Parade featuring the schools, antique cars, local politicians, army tanks and more. The event is ...
About The Swellesley Report (Wellesley, Mass.)
WEBSep 13, 2024 · Deborah Brown has a background in editing and teaching, and is active in town via a gardening club, through arts projects, and serves on the Advisory Board for the Wellesley Conservation Land Trust.. Mrs. Swellesley votes, 2022. Bob Brown has been a professional reporter and editor since the mid-1980s, serving as news editor of a high tech business magazine/Web site called Network World from ...
Wellesley’s best walk — the Wellesley College Lake Waban loop
WEBJul 18, 2019 · A good parking spot is the lot across from the Wellesley College Club, located at 727 Washington Street, on Route 16. Cross the street at either of two well-marked crosswalks. You can then access the path to the left of the College Club. Boardwalk through the marsh at Lake Waban. File photo.
The Wellesley Free Library reopens—a first look
WEBAug 5, 2020 · A first look at the reopened Wellesley Free Library. We managed our expectations and concentrated on molding our behavior to conform to present realities: no congregating, no computers, no copiers, no excessive chit-chat with the staff, no sitting, no bathrooms, no water fountain access.
Beyond Wellesley: a hike around Gates Pond in Berlin, Massachusetts
WEBOctober 26, 2018 by Deborah Brown. This wonderfully accessible, pretty as can be, 2.5 mile loop around Gates Pond in Berlin, Massachusetts is for you, young families of Wellesley. If you’ve got active kids with energy to burn, and maybe one or two still in a stroller, this is your hike. If you’ve got a friendly, goofy Golden Retriever named ...