A little wet weather didn’t dissuade more than 400 people from running the Wellesley 1-Miler for Hannah’s Fund at Elm Bank Reservation to kick off Mother’s Day on Sunday morning. The race attracted lots of families, with many little ones making the trek by foot or stroller. Christopher Simpson of Arlington won the race, in [...]
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 [...]
From The Wellesley Youth Track and Field Club: The Wellesley Youth Track and Field Club, a USATF-certified club, is now accepting registrations for its Girls Summer Track and Field Summer Program. The Summer Program is open to girls entering 5th-10th grade in Fall 2013. The Club will practice on Sunday evenings in June and on [...]
We’ve received a handful of comments over the past week on our original April 30 post about Ollie Turner Park in Wellesley reportedly coming under heavier use of late. Whereas the initial post was based on a letter from a reader who said reaction to increased use (including the erection of goalposts) was “universally negative,” [...]
Anyone got a dune buggy? You’d need one to park in the official spaces for those visiting the site of the original Wellesley Town Hall at the front of the Wellesley Country Club property on Wellesley Avenue (though there are plenty of other unmarked spaces that do the trick just fine). Meanwhile, it was a [...]
A reader wrote to us recently asking about what’s up with Ollie Turner Park, which has recently become an increasingly busy field in this reader’s neighborhood of the “Standish Estates” alongside Longfellow Pond in Wellesley. According to the reader: “Over the past two weeks, garbage cans, ‘pick up after your dog signs’ (yeah!) and 2 [...]
Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray, who for 40 years has run the course after others have finished, obviously didn’t get a chance to do his traditional thing on the most recent Marathon Monday. A week-and-a-half later though, McGillivray traversed the course, seen here on Rte. 125 in Wellesley. He’s among a handful of runners [...]
