Category Archives: Environment

Wellesley High seniors collecting used electronics for charity

By admin | Published: May 16, 2013

Wellesley High School students Ryan Chan and Luke Arney, for their senior project, have organized a used electronics drive to support the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. They’re shipping the old electronics to Causes International, a company that focuses on recycling or reselling old electronics. Causes takes the electronics and wipes any data off of them, [...]

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Wellesley vernal pool event: Frogs, salamanders, people welcome

By bbrown | Published: May 13, 2013

From the Wellesley Natural Resources Commission: We invite all schoolchildren and their parents to this free vernal pool adventure on May 18, 10am-12pm! Please join us rain or shine for this indoor and outdoor program designed to introduce students to easily accessible wildlife habitats and encourage them to become stewards of Wellesley’s vernal pools.  Students will [...]

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High schoolers step up and beautify Wellesley Post Office flower boxes

By admin | Published: May 9, 2013

By Judy Papp Have you ever wondered which government agency takes care of Wellesley’s Post Office flower boxes?  No, the flowers are not paid for by the PO budget, nor do they add to the government deficit!  It is the Wellesley Gardeners’ Guild that four times a year purchases and plants all the flowers and [...]

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Wellesley Farmers’ Market back in action May 9

By bbrown | Published: May 3, 2013

The Wellesley Farmers’ Market is back beginning on Thursday, May 9th from 2-6pm in the Whole Foods Market parking lot off Washington Street and will feature a new mix of local fruit/vegetable vendors as well as an on-line ordering system and delivery options. A community celebration will take place at the market the following Thursday, [...]

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Raffle to help keep Wellesley’s Clock Tower Park beauteous

By bbrown | Published: May 2, 2013

The Hills Garden Club of Wellesley over the next couple of weekends will be selling raffle tickets to fund the planting of flowers, brick path work and other enhancements at Clock Tower Park in Wellesley Hills. The club helps the town maintain and care for the park, including the planting of spring bulbs, where the [...]

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Wellesley to be spotless after this Saturday morning

By admin | Published: April 26, 2013

Fresh off last weekend’s Earth Day clean-up in Lower Falls, you have your choice of participating in 3 different Wellesley clean-ups on Saturday morning (April 27) and/or going on a guided walk of the town’s trails. Friends of Brookside will meet from 9 to 10:30am at Longfellow Pond on Oakland Street. Friends of Morses Pond [...]

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Charles River in Wellesley now a bit tidier

By bbrown | Published: April 20, 2013

The Wellesley Natural Resources Commission orchestrated an Earth Day clean-up at the Charles River in Lower Falls. Here’s one before and after situation:                                   And here’s what happens when you toss a Swedish Fish bag into the Charles (note [...]

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