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Wellesley summer camp listings 2021 — find the experience of a lifetime

April 14, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

LINX, WellesleyThe Swellesley Report’s Summer Camps page is now updated with over 75 camps in Wellesley and beyond. It’s time to sign your child up for the summer camp experience of a lifetime. Whether they’re into coding, arts and crafts, sports, drama, or nature, the perfect camp is out there for them.

Swellesley’s camps page is sponsored by LINX Camps. Over 40 Premier Camps. Perfect for your family.

Contact Deborah for more info on inclusion of your camp located in Wellesley or elsewhere, or for advertising on Swellesley. Camp parents and guardians: Please let camps know that you found them here, if you did…thanks.

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Wellesley 5th graders spell it out at elementary school-wide Bee

April 7, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

The Wellesley Central Council of Parent Teacher Organizations ran its first Wellesley Public Schools 5th Grade Spelling Bee for spellers from all seven bricks-and-mortar schools and Remote Learning School. The competition began with preliminary rounds and ended with finals. A total of 70 5th graders participated.

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Top spelling bee honors went to students from Remote Learning School and Sprague School.

Judges included PTO presidents and  elementary school principals.

During the final round, three spellers from each school competed for the top  honors. And the winners are…

1st place winners (tied)

Cole Delgado (from RLS)
Ranting Lan (from RLS)

The two battled it out round after round until finally a tie was declared. The final word was INVESTIGATION, spelled correctly by both in the 62nd word of the finals.

2nd place winner

Darren Peng (from Sprague)

Congratulations to the top dawgs and all  participants.

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Wellesley Scholarship Foundation wins 2020 online spelling bee

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Wellesley sports catch-up: WHS football not letting anyone else score; Mites win Bavis hockey tourney; Babson tennis wants you to watch

March 22, 2021 by Bob Brown Leave a Comment

We don’t have an official sports reporting staff, so we admittedly cover the topic in a catch-as-catch-can way. But we’ve had a number of things sent our way of late, so here you go:

WHS football not letting anyone else score

The Raiders crushed usual Thanksgiving rival Needham High School 34-0 on Friday for Wellesley’s second straight shutout to start the season. Among the strong performances for the Raiders was Anthony Perez running back an interception 32 yards for a touchdown and also catching a 33-yard touchdown pass on 4th and 28 from quarterback Vincent Ferrara.

Mites win Bavis hockey tourney

The Wellesley rookie mite team coached by Halsey Coughlin won the Mark Bavis Memorial hockey tournament hosted by Hyde Park Youth Hockey over the weekend. Congrats to these first and second graders, who got the finals with an exciting shoot0out victory in the semis.

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Photo courtesy of Rick Bellew

 

Babson tennis wants you to watch

We received email earlier this month from Babson College senior and varsity tennis player Mary Kille, who was excited to learn that the tennis team will be having a season despite the pandemic. The season was canceled last year. She says the team (which includes Wellesley’s Ashley Avery) would love to connect more with people in town, even though right now the campus is closed to the public.

As a senior on the Babson Women’s Tennis Team, I am extremely excited to have the opportunity to play a competitive season this Spring.  With last year’s season canceled, we are incredibly grateful for our college’s efforts to keep everyone safe while granting us the ability to play during these times.  In addition to practicing and playing matches with masks on, we also get tested twice a week to ensure we’re all safe and healthy.  This year, more so than ever, as we’re living in a rather virtual world, we want to remain connected with our community. 

Our team partnered with the Hebrew Senior Life Home of Dedham to participate in virtual sessions to work with some of their patients.  In the future, when it’s safe to do so, we hope to participate in ACEing Autism, a volunteer-driven, non-profit organization.  We absolutely love the support of our greater community and we hope to provide some stellar tennis matches this spring. 

Coming up, our first match is at Babson College on Saturday, April 3 at 10:30 am EST. Be sure to tune into the live-stream, we hope you enjoy it and we thank you in advance for your support!  #GoBabo #DefendTheDam

Keep an eye on Babson Athletics social media for streaming info.

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Beyond Wellesley: a winter wander around Gloucester, Massachusetts

March 9, 2021 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

Our recent visit to Gloucester, Mass. included a hike at Ravenswood Park; a visit to the north shore town’s Main Street (there’s lots to see including two bookstores); and a great take-out lunch from local favorite The Causeway.

More here on our adventure.

Beyond Wellesley: Gloucester, Mass.
We followed the Ledge Hill Trail at Ravenswood Park. Once you get the top you’re rewarded with a view of Gloucester Harbor, known as America’s oldest seaport. Especially with young kids, if all you did was an out-and-back hike on Ledge Hill trail to the overlook, that would be a fine hike and a successful family outing. The path is lined with moss-covered boulders, some of them absolutely massive, and the hiking itself is easy, with no sudden elevation changes.

 

 

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Wellesley Business Buzz: Hipstitch sewing & knitting studio coming to Church Square; WHS seniors with insider knowledge launch Akston Tutoring; Custom Ink opens in Linden Square

March 8, 2021 by Bob Brown Leave a Comment

Our roundup of the latest Wellesley, MA business news:

Hipstitch sewing & knitting studio coming to Church Square

Hipstitch logoThe rise of the COVID-19 pandemic also gave rise to newfound interest in sewing, knitting, and crafts, and Newton’s Hipstitch is responding to the demand by expanding into Wellesley, at 22 Church St., in mid-April, and then Brookline, on Harvard Street in June.

“Due to the pandemic more people have been stuck at home so they have taken up hobbies, sewing, knitting and crafts,” says Nicola Day, who started Hipswitch 10 years ago. “Before the demand for masks at the beginning of the pandemic, we sold so many DIY hand and machine sewing kits as well as DIY mask kits that came with instructions and materials and a Youtube tutorial.”

When Hipstitch was forced to close its shop temporarily at the start of the pandemic, Day and her team started sewing masks, and received $100K in orders in one weekend after being featured in a local TV news segment. Day says: “We hired subcontractors (anybody who was laid off, tailors and sewers who worked in factories) who were making 1,000 masks a day for us!”

Hipstitch still sells masks, but with the market flooded, Day’s happy to satisfy the remaining demand but move ahead with other plans, like expanding into Wellesley. One silver lining of the pandemic is that some commercial real estate has become more affordable. Hipstitch will move into the former Candy Bar Cosmetics space in Church Square, which looks to be bouncing back with the arrival soon of NatureWorks Landscape as well.

Hipstitch’s current Wellesley customers have urged Day to open in town, which saw another business that offers sewing classes called Sew Easy consolidate its Linden Street business with a Needham location a couple of years ago.

“We have been looking for new spaces for a few years but they were cost prohibitive or not the right location,” says Day, who according to her bio began sewing her own clothes when she was 11 years old. “We wanted a retail space, for the foot traffic and to show people our creative windows , as well as space to be able to sell all the DIY sewing and craft kits we design as well as unique handmade merchandise and sewing machines and sewing and knitting supplies.”

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Hipstitch project

 

Hipstitch will be adding knitting supplies and lessons for kids, teen and adults at the two new locations. It didn’t make sense to do that at the Newton location, which is just two doors away from a knitting shop.

The Wellesley shop will be offering pre-school fiber art classes, after-school sewing, parent-child classes, parties and camps, its most popular class, Fashion Design, taught and created by a Parsons School of Design graduate who has also worked for Hipstitch since she was 14 years old.

Day says that the lack of sewing, knitting, and craft offerings in school has allowed Hipstitch to fill a void—one that many parents don’t have the skills to fill themselves. She adds that sewing machines, now computerized, are much easier to operate than they used to be.

The popularity of the TV show Project Runway, and an interest by young people in making their own clothes as a way to be environmentally friendly, are other drivers for sewing’s renaissance, Day says. Social media has helped to fuel this interest, she adds.

Hipstitch plays into social media trends by complementing its kits and classes with Youtube tutorials. But Day says one of the attractive things about sewing, knitting, and crafting is that it also can give kids and adults a break from screens.

“We like the fact that they are doing an activity and using their hand and eye coordination and stimulating the creative part of the brain. People (social distanced of course!) like the social aspect of coming together to create unique projects and feel a sense of pride once they complete a project, as well as finding inspiration from other creators and learning new techniques and skills,” Day says.

WHS seniors with insider knowledge launch Akston Tutoring

A new tutoring services poses this question to Wellesley High School (and other) students: If you need help with your school work, why not go with tutors who have actually been through the same classes recently?

Akston Tutoring is the brainchild of a group of Wellesley High School seniors that has been hatched over the past few months. The name “Akston” comes from a character in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, a book that espouses the value of hard work and productivity.

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The Akston tutors (photo via Akston Tutoring)

 

WHS senior Nick Lee says he came away with a bad taste in his mouth after meeting with an expensive college consultant, and that has inspired him to ensure that Akston will give clients “accurate advice instead of profitable advice.”

Through the students’ early meetings, WHS senior Jake Merritt says “I began to realize that by creating a platform for qualified high school tutors to meet people who needed help in their classes, we could help a lot of students while also providing employment opportunities for high schoolers.”

One refreshing aspect of Akston is that pricing is transparent: A comparison chart clearly lays out how much the tutoring service’s offerings cost vs. others. Services include academic subject tutoring, SAT and ACT test prep, essay editing, and more. The Gauntlet is “A unique service that has multiple editors look through the same essay to catch every mistake.”

Lee says the pandemic and introduction of hybrid education has actually made the tutors’ jobs a bit easier in that many classes tend to cover less ground. He adds that the Akston crew has also learned a lot about how to best navigate hybrid learning and can offer advice on things like how to effectively communicate online, such as via email, with teachers.

While the four seniors at the heart of Akston Tutoring plan to keep tutoring until they head off for college, they look to pass the business on to younger peers to keep it going indefinitely.


Custom Ink has opened in Linden Square

Custom Ink, WellesleyCustom Ink has opened in Linden Square and the expert team there can customize merch for birthdays, weddings, sports teams, and businesses. You can book an appointment—virtual or in-store—for help creating custom shirts, masks, drinkware, bags, and more.


Got tips on business openings, closings or whatever, feel free to email us here: [email protected]

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Register now for Wellesley Youth Lacrosse

February 28, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

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Wellesley Scout Troop 182 hosting open house on Sunday, Jan. 31

January 30, 2021 by Bob Brown Leave a Comment

Kids in grades 5 to high school are invited to a virtual open house hosted by Wellesley’s Scout Troop 182 on Sunday, Jan. 31 from 7-8pm.

RSVP to [email protected] for a zoom link.

Troop 182 is now in its 108th year of serving youth in Wellesley and surrounding towns.

Even with the challenges that 2020 presented, the troop held several camping trips; held regular virtual and in-person (as weather allowed)
meetings; and participated in four community service projects. This summer, the troop is planning to attend Scout summer
camp at the Yawgoog Scout Reservation in Rockville, R.I.


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