Sudbury Town Crier 1/1/09: Area police report increase in house and car break-ins. In Wayland, half of all the year’s residential burglaries (six out of 12) occurred in the final three months of the year.
Wayland Town Crier 1/1/09: The Top Stories of 2008:
Override passes: Wayland voters pass override; elect Nolan and Correia
Pro-override candidates: Wayland voters pass override; elect Nolan and Correia
Department of Public Works: Town Meeting votes to create Department of Public Works.
Two-and-a-half schools
Incumbents keep seats: Wayland voters pass override; elect Nolan and Correia
Wayland [...]
Wayland Town Crier 1/1/09: Wayland Town Crier’s people of the year
Mike Baer: Caring for our troops overseas.
Alaska Akbar: Wayland girl excels at unique ‘tetrathlon’ competition
Betty Ansbacher: Traditions of Wayland resident wins Hadassah Award.
Jesse Gantz: [...]
Metrowest Daily News 1/2/09:State has money for school projects… for now. While other areas of state government struggle mightily for funding, the Massachusetts School Building Authority has money set aside to pay for school projects, but like all good things, this will not go on forever. The MSBA receivesone cent from the five-cent state sales [...]
Metrowest Daily News 1/3/09: Local skaters and fishermen on thin ice. Local firefighters urge caution when skating on ponds – fluctuating temperatures make for unsafe ice.
The Robbs Portraiture is holding their third annual "Free February" Portrait Sessions – this year extending it through the end of March. During these two months there is no charge for a qualifying portrait session. [...]
Boston Globe 1/4/09: GOP rising star: Party sees signs of hope in Wrentham’s Scott Brown. In a year in which the Republican party did not fare well either in the state or nationally, Scott Brown won his race by a commanding margin.
Boston Globe 1/4/09: Perry Hagenstein has died. A respected scholar of natural resource policy and economics, Dr. Hagenstein died of cancer on Dec. 27 at his Wayland home. He was 77. He lived in Wayland for nearly 40 years and was known for his walks through town.
Metrowest Daily News 1/3/09: Are regional services a solution for tough times? Wayland and Sudbury are looking at combining library, transfer station and the park and recreation department with counterparts in Wayland. Last month, boards of selectmen from both towns met over dinner to begin discussions, said O’Brien. The towns already share a sewage [...]
[ January 8, 2009; 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm. January 15, 2009; 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm. January 22, 2009; 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm. ] Spanish culture influenced some of the West’s most significant and important artists from the sixteenth century to the present. El Greco created personal visions using distortion and unnatural colors. Velazquez produced court portraits as well as historical and mythological narratives. Goya not only painted court portraits and tapestry designs, but created works mocking the social [...]
Sudbury Valley Trustees Annual Benefit & On-Line Auction. Come to the Snow Ball, join us for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, dinner and dancing and a silent auction on February 28th, 2009. The Snow Ball will be held at the Sheraton Framingham at 6:30pm. For more information, contact Michael Sanders at 978-443-5588 ext 11 or by [...]
Town Administrator 1/6/09: Update on January 5 Selectmen’s Meeting. At Monday’s meeting the Board approved traffic improvements related to the Town Center development and discussed potential collaborations with Sudbury, among other matters.
Earthtoys 1/6/09: CSG Names Energy Veteran to Board of Directors. Conservation Services Group (CSG) today announced the appointment of Harvey G. Michaels to its board of directors. Michaels is a Wayland resident who has been a leader in developing consumer-centric approaches to enabling energy efficiency over the past 30 years. He is energy efficiency research [...]
Wayland Town Crier 1/6/09:
Middle School Principal to stay on for another year. John Kavaleski will postpone his retirement to stay through the next school year, enabling the school to benefit from his experience during a time of many difficult financial decisions.
Wayland Town Crier 1/6/09: Residents honored by Metrowest Jewish Day School. Myra and Robert Snyder of Wayland were honored at the annual MetroWest Jewish Day School (MWJDS) annual "Winter Lights Gala: A Celebration of the Arts" at Temple Shir Tikva in Wayland.
Wayland Town Crier 1/6/09: Kindergarten class learns mitzvah of caring for animals. Their year-long project includes helping the Buddy Dog Humane Society with treats, visits and lots of love.
Wayland Town Crier 1/6/09:
Town Center project faces more obstacles. An appeal over the EPA’s wastewater treatment plant approvals and remaining Conservation Commission approvals remain as obstacles for the project, which has already been pushed back to a planned spring 2010 opening.
Wayland Town Crier 1/6/09: Town officials reveal goals for new year, looking to find ways to continue to cut costs, including collaboration efforts with neighboring towns, and
implementation of the DPW.
Wayland Town Crier 1/6/09: Guidance for dog owners and their neighbors. Remember that a dog’s owner is responsible for its behavior. Wayland’s Dog Control Bylaw describes the complete provisions of the governing local law.
Wayland Town Crier 1/6/09:
Resident offer tips to living long and healthy life. Wayland resident Herb Kavet has published "Die Young… As late as possible: A guide to staying fit and healthy as you age", available at www.dieyoungbook.com and Amazon.com.
Wayland Town Crier 1/6/09:
Town mourns longtime volunteer. Perry Hagenstein lived in Wayland for the last 37 years, and was active as a volunteer in town, and was well known for his walks around town. He held a PhD and taught university level courses in forestry and natural resource policy, and received the Ken Moon [...]
Metrowest Daily News 1/8/09: Wayland’s Dudley Chateau going back before Selectmen. The owners of the Dudley Chateau will face the Board of Selectmen on Monday following the Police Department’s findings of three liquor license violations following a physical altercation at the site.
The Nature Conservancy 1/9/09: Jeff Porter to lead the Nature Conservancy’s Massachusetts Board of Trustees. Porter is an environmental attorney and Wayland resident, and has served on the Conservancy’s board for four years – including two years as Vice Chairman.
Boston Globe 1/9/08: Health clubs take on flabby economy: discounts aim to keep old, draw new members. This month, Longfellow is offering a new special to prospective members – a free two-week membership, with a hitch. Customers must attend six supervised classes during the two weeks. They pay $25 upfront, and upon completion of the [...]
Boston Globe 1/9/08: Old-fashioned lifeline: stricken children thrive with intravenous doses of fish oil. Ellie Brogan of Wayland was born with with just a tiny fraction of her small intestine and missing some of her colon, and was told she would probably need a liver transplant or die by her first birthday. Now, 2 1/2 [...]
Patriot Ledger 1/10/09: Seven bald eagles at Assawompset Pond among 70 counted statewide. Listed as endangered in Massachusetts since the 1980s, bald eagles remain on the state list, but are gaining ground in the Bay State, thanks in large part to a restoration project begun in 1982.
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Boston Globe 1/11/09: Assisted living assist: Some retirement communities are offering creative help to encourage seniors to move in a stagnant housing market. Around the state, economic conditions have added new challenges to seniors looking to move into senior housing. Wayland is among communities looking at starting a Beacon Hill Village program, which allows members [...]
Wayland School Committee 1/11/09: Ongoing budget discussion. To date, the School Committee has conducted two work sessions for the fiscal year 2010 budget, and has looked at personnel and non-personnel accounts, the Special Education budget, and the budget offsets, including fees. The Committee has been reviewing existing fees as well as [...]
Boston Globe 1/11/09: Some attracted to idea of being the boss: Layoffs can spur some to go to work for themselves. His pink slip turned out to be serendipity as Eric Stutman opened personal fitness franchise One2One BodyScapes in Wayland, and has not regretted the change.
Feed a Heart
Feed a Heart, Honor a Soldier. Wayland, can you help us send Valentine’s Day packages to the Troops?
Spread the Bread is partnering with Mike Baer from Adopt-A-Platoon and Geoff Gardner from “Sel de la Terre” restaurant to make sure that our soldiers overseas are remembered in a special way this Valentine’s [...]
Sunrise Senior Living is looking for volunteers who want to make a difference in the lives of our residents. We have a wonderful group of people who love to learn new things. Would you like to teach a watercolor or sketching class, lead a bible study or sing hymns, lead an exercise group, teach us [...]
WBUR Here and Now 1/12/09: Ticket-a-kid. NPR’s “Here and Now” talks with Tom Barone of Wayland, Massachusetts, father of two and creator of “Ticket-A-Kid,” a booklet of citations and fines, just like parking tickets. Parents can write up their kids’ continuing infractions around the house; like not putting clothes away and leaving lights [...]
UConn Huskies 1/12/09: Foreman Named to 2009 United States Maccabiah Open Track and Field Team. University of Connecticut women’s track and field senior Jessi Foreman has been chosen to the 2009 United State Maccabiah Open Track and Field team as announced Monday by the USA 18th Maccabiah Organizing Committee. The Maccabiah Games [...]
Metrowest Daily News 1/11/09: Schools: Wayland swimmers win in Rhode Island The Wayland girls swim team won three relays on its way to taking first at the Bay View Invitational at the University of Rhode Island. The Warriors scored 439 points to come out on top, while Weston (287 points) was second in [...]
[ January 13, 2009; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Admission is canned goods or $5 donation for the Wayland Food Pantry. This year resolve to learn: How to Chunk Your Time, The Rule of 6, the Focused 15 Minute Technique, plus other tips to help you tame your calendar and feel fine in 2009!
Metrowest Daily News 1/14/09: Danforth Green tax payment deal ironed out. The developers of the Danforth Green planned unit development appear to have ironed out one financial wrinkle, agreeing to payment plans with the town for back taxes in both 2008 and 2009.
Wayland Town Crier 1/14/09: Local pols file bill to double gas tax, nix tolls. MetroWest lawmakers are preparing legislation that would more than double the state gas tax, eliminate tolls and generate enough new revenue to address staggering debt loads at the Mass. Turnpike Authority and the MBTA. Legislation in the works would set the state gas [...]
Press Release
January 15, 2009
BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUPS
(Wayland, MA) Parmenter’s Wayside Hospice will be offering an 8 week bereavement support group. The aim of this bereavement group is to provide a safe place for you to talk about your loss with others who are also grieving, and hopefully to provide you support in the process of healing. [...]
Metrowest Daily News 1/14/09: Most MetroWest towns in same financial boat. Wayland is looking to reduce its 2010 budget by $500,000, with the schools bearing $350,000 of that burden. Already left out of the school budget were elementary-level reading and math specialists, funding for professional development, money for various supplies and replacement of copiers, [...]
Wayland Police Department
Press Release
January 14, 2009
The Wayland Police Department would like to remind residents of our free program of Child Passenger Safety Seat Inspection. Each year thousands of children are killed or injured in motor vehicle crashes. Many of these injuries or deaths would have been prevented had the child been properly secured in a [...]
Wayland Town Crier 1/15/09: Excitement surrounding Oxbow Road development. A lottery to determine who will be the future owners will be held at 6pm on January 20 in the Town Building. The townhouse-style homes with open floor plans are fully Energy Star-plus compliant. The homes have extra insulation, high efficiency furnaces and [...]
Wayland Town Crier 1/15/09: 50 years of Wayland High School. Many Wayland residents may not be aware of the rich history and architectural significance of Wayland High School. This unique collection of six structures sits at the crossroads of one of the 20th century’s most influential art movements and a progressive and humanistic [...]
Wayland Town Crier 1/15/09: ‘Wayland A-Z’: ‘M’ is for ‘Mellen Law Office’. Wayland’s town green features one of the few surviving examples of a typical two-room law office of the early 19th century. This small white building which faces the Public Safety Building was built by Samuel Hale Mann in 1826, who sold it [...]
ACEing Autism, a tennis program for children with autism, has landed at The Longfellow Club.
The program was started by Richard Spurling and Shafali Spurling Jeste.
Jeste is a neurologist at Children’s Hospital in Boston, and Spurling is the director of tennis at the Woodland Golf Club and a tennis professional at Dedham Country Club.
In [...]
Registered Democrats in Wayland will be holding a caucus at the Public Safety Building in the center of town on Saturday, January 31 at 1 pm to elect eight delegates and three alternates to the 2009 Massachusetts Democratic Convention. Delegates will be divided equally between men and women.
The convention will be held on Saturday, June [...]
Nomination papers are now available from the town clerk’s office for residents interesting in running for elected office. Candidates are required to have at least 50 signatures to be certified for nomination and papers must be returned to the town clerk by Feb. 17. Note that the Park & Recreation Commission will become the Recreation [...]
Join an educational group led by Martie Fiske, using the nationally successful Low Carbon Diet program, to share easy energy savings ideas, rebates and tax credits. This action project involves just four meetings to help you lighten our load on the planet – and your wallet.
Come learn how you can receive a free energy audit [...]
Wayland Town Crier 1/15/09: Dudley Chateau to lose liquor license for four weeks. The Dudley Chateau on Crest Road will lose its liquor license for four weeks following a huge brawl on the premises on the night of Dec. 27. Among the recent liquor license violations seen at the Dudley Chateau, according [...]
[ January 15, 2009; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Have you resolved to get fit in the new year? Do you want to improve your health? Lower your risk of disease? Are you confused by conflicting information on how much to exercise? What kind of exercise to do? How to exercise safely without injury? How to make the time to exercise? Exercise doesn’t have [...]
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