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Gas leak to snarl Wellesley traffic Tuesday

From the Wellesley Police Department: National Grid crews are going to be repairing a natural gas leak on Weston Road at Cleveland Road near the Fells block today.  This leak developed yesterday and crews have been working through the night to repair it.  You may notice an odor of natural gas in this area until [...]

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2013: The year BEFORE the year of the pool in Wellesley

Not only is Wellesley looking to build a pool on the St. James the Great property along Rte. 9, but Wellesley Country Club is in the process of replacing the pool (shown here) on its property. It sounds as though WCC’s new pool easily will be in place first, as WCC plans to situate its [...]

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Wellesley’s Rockland Street bridge opening delayed until January for gas main work

The new Rockland Street bridge in Wellesley, which had been expected to open to cars today, will now have its completion delayed until early January so that National Grid can fix a gas main damaged over the summer. The bridge is now open to pedestrians, whose temporary walkway was removed over the weekend. The town [...]

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Rockland Street pedestrian walkway removed, foot traffic starts over Wellesley’s newest bridge

Workers on the Rockland Street bridge Saturday removed the pedestrian footbridge and people were allowed to start walking over the permanent concrete bridge that’s slated for completion by year-end. National Grid and others were on the scene to finalize the project. Ran over it with a friend Sunday morning and it was feeling mighty solid. [...]

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Roiled on Royalston Road in Wellesley

A reader wrote in to say she’s getting fed up with construction trucks parked on Royalston Road, which is located not far from Boulder Brook Reservation and the Weston line. Home building and refurbs are attracting the workers to Royalston Road in big numbers: “It is a curvy road with a blind curve and three [...]

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Wellesley construction update: Rockland Street bridge set to reopen by year-end 2012

The Rockland Street bridge is set to re-open by the end of December, according to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. After a slow start and some classic stuff such as a person driving onto the pedestrian bridge, much progress has been made in recent months.The bridge was initially expected to re-open in September. Mike Verseckes, [...]

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Rockland Street bridge making a comeback

Wellesley Police helped keep traffic away from the Rockland Street bridge today as workers really started to put it back together. The bridge project has had its issues, including a damaged gas line, but things now look to be moving ahead. It was originally supposed to be done by September, but the latest estimates are [...]

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