Stray Pets in Need (SPIN) of Massachusetts celebrates 20-plus years of helping animals in our community on Saturday, March 2 with a spaghetti dinner and musical entertainment at the Italo American Club at 80 Oak St., in Wellesley from 4:30pm-7:30pm. All you can eat spaghetti, bread, salad, drinks and dessert (pie). celebrating 20 plus years [...]
UPDATE: 2/4/13 UPDATE: MISSING LION The lion’s owner has been found in Watertown, and the lion is home safely! Thanks to everyone! twitter.com/WellesleyPolic… — Wellesley Police(@WellesleyPolice) February 4, 2013 Wellesley Police tweeted out this photo on Sunday of a lion statue that showed up in Wellesley Hills: IS THIS YOUR LION? WPD has recovered this [...]
Wellesley Middle School is readying for its third annual Chinese New Year celebration — this time around in honor of the Year of the Water Snake. The celebration, which will include student music, dance, arts and crafts related to Chinese culture, takes place Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2:30pm-3:45pm in the cafeteria. Parent volunteers are being sought [...]
We’ve had at least 3 reports over the past couple of weeks about a bald eagle (or eagles?) soaring over Wellesley College/Lake Waban (via https://twitter.com/APV2600) or Morses Pond. One eagle-eyed, dog-eared blogger snapped this shot of a somewhat camera-shy bird. RELATED: Swellesley was a real zoo in 2012
Animals went wild in Wellesley this past year, keeping the town’s animal control officer busy and residents on alert (any other major sightings that we missed? Photos welcomed): *The town hired goats to clean up a man-made mess at Boulder Brook Reservation. *A moose and a scorpion also [...]
Beavers have been making their presence known at Longfellow Pond in Wellesley. Town park officials have placed wire mesh around surviving trees to try to save them from the animals’ teeth. The town hired an outfit to remove beavers from the Wellesley RDF and surrounding neighborhood late last year/earlier this year. Beavers are most prevalent [...]
The winter moths took advantage of the balmy December weather tonight and flocked to house lights. Wellesley sprays town trees to control winter moth caterpillars in the spring.
