Sudbury Valley Trustees presents TRACKING YOUR NEIGHBORS FOOTSTEPS. At Nut Meadow, Concord. (Alternate Date: Sunday January 10) Winter is the perfect time to learn what kinds of animals are roaming our reservations. Nut Meadow has an interesting topography and wetlands, rich in biodiversity. We could find evidence of coyote, red fox, beaver, mink, and [...]
Boston Globe 12/31/09: High court rules that Wayland board violated open meeting law. In the final chapter of a long legal saga, the state's highest court ruled today that an exchange of e-mails among Wayland School Committee members about the performance of the school superintendent violated the state's open meeting law.
WAYLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Dec. 31, 2009 Holiday Hours: The Library will be closed on Monday, January 18, for MLK Day. Angels of Austria: At 7:30pm on Wednesday, January 27, in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, filmmaker Judy Faust will present her documentary, "Angels of Austria: The Church that Reached [...]
C. Peter R. Gossels, Wayland’s Town Moderator, was recently awarded a “Superb” (10 out of 10) rating as a lawyer by AVVO, a national agency that rates lawyers based on their educational and professional achievements as well as endorsements from their clients and other lawyers.Wayland Board of Health H1N1 Flu Community Vaccination Clinic Thursday, January 7, 2010, 3-7pm at Wayland Town Building Flu Mist or Injectable vaccine available for interested individuals, regardless of age. No pre-registration required.
Learn outdoor activities that are fun and easy to do with friends and family. Snowshoeing is similar to walking. Free. For information, visit www.wintertrails.org or call 781-891-6575. The Weston Ski Track is located at 200 Park Rd., Weston.
Vinca String Quartet has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a first-place win in the 2008 International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition. The program includes Haydn's String Quartet in F major, op. 50 no. 5 ("Dream"); Mendelssohn's String Quartet in a minor, op. 13; and Schumann's String Quartet in a minor, op. 41 no. 1. [...]
Wayland Town Crier 12/27/09: Appeals Court rejects appeal from Town Center developer. The state Appeals Court quickly rejected an appeal from Town Center developer Twenty Wayland, backed by the Wayland town administrator’s office and the Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA), to disallow the town’s Historic District Commission (HDC) from retaining its own attorney in a dispute with the developer.
Beginning this month, the Wayland Public Schools will begin a principal search to find a replacement for John Kavaleski, principal of Wayland Middle School. The district will use the same successful search procedure that has been used for other principal searches and administrative vacancies dating back to 1994 to advertise, screen and hire a new Middle School principal.
In addition to seeking information from focus groups, the district is calling for a limited number of volunteers to serve on one of the interview committees. For a complete description of the interview process, click here and review Superintendent Gary Burton’s letter to parents. Community members wishing to serve should download and complete the application form, and return it to Assistant Superintendent Brad Crozier . Residents who are chosen for the interview committee will be required to attend an interview training session on February 24 from 9-10am, and finalist candidate interviews on March 2 and/or March 4 (9am-3pm, tentatively).
For Wayland couple, noise from the Pike is part of the family. The Rocketts, octogenarians who live about a city block from the Pike, called The Globe after last week's story on a study showing that highway sound barriers substantially reduce neighborhood pollution, in addition to noise. They have sought sound barriers in their neighborhood for four decades, unsuccessfully.
Worcester Business Journal 12/28/09: The Outlook For MetroWest. The MetroWest Economic Research Center tracks employment in several sub-state regions of the commonwealth. These regions differ from the state and each other in their business cycles and industrial structure. As a result, MERC expects the intensity and length of this recession will differ among the regions. For example, the MetroWest region (including the towns of Ashland, Framingham, Holliston, Hopkinton, Natick, Sherborn, Southborough, Sudbury, and Wayland) recovered well from the 2001-03 recession, outperforming the state, while the greater Marlborough region recovered more slowly.
Boston Globe 12/23/09: Bringing the recipe search up to speed. If you’re like most people, you probably make the same recipes every week because you’re too busy to skim through your cookbooks for ideas. That scenario is what inspired the authors of a new website, Eat Your Books (www.eatyourbooks.com), an online subscription service that allows you to search the indexes of hundreds of popular cookbooks. Those books may be volumes you already own, where you’ll find new recipes and revisit old favorites. The idea is that you list the books you have on the site so when you do a search, you’re looking through your own library.
WAYLAND COUNCIL ON AGING announces the following programs/services. For additional information or to register, please contact the Wayland COA office at 508 358 2990. WATERCOLOR CLASSES start Friday January 8 9am – 11am (ADVANCED) Noon-2pm (BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE) Pre-Registration required as we limit class size. Explore color and technique while receiving individualized instruction from an award [...]
Cambridge Chronicle 12/25/09: Beacon Hill Roll Call: Rushing highest paid state rep in Cambridge. The state rep taking home the lowest legislative salary is Wayland's Rep Tom Conroy.
Wayland Town Crier 12/24/09: 'Wayland A to Z': 'R' for 'Red Scare'. On the night of June 8, 1954, the Wayland School Committee convened a public hearing to determine whether Anne P. Hale Jr., a second-grade teacher in the Wayland Center School, should be dismissed because of her membership in the Communist Party between 1938 and 1950.
Wayland Town Crier 12/23/09: Stellar performance review for Town Administrator Fred Turkington. Town Administrator Fred Turkington received a stellar performance review from his bosses, the Board of Selectmen, for his fourth year on the job.
Boston Pops 12/18/09: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Richard Sebring was skiing near his home last January – with a camera phone. Not realizing fully what he was about to capture when he shot the natural ice formations on the Sudbury River, he recites that upon seeing the images, “I was blown away – they seemed to reveal an entirely new world.” Richard happened to be working at the time on a new arrangement of Coventry Carol – and thought immediately how the music and the images could work together.
The Board of Selectmen voted on Monday, December 21, 2009, to open the Warrant for the Annual Town Meeting to be held on Monday, May 10, 2010, at 7:30pm in the Wayland High School Field House. The warrant for said Annual Town Meeting will be open from Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 8:30am through Friday, [...]
Wayland Town Crier 12/21/09: Resident named Lawyer of the Year. Richard E. Mikels of Wayland, chairman of Mintz Levin’s bankruptcy, restructuring and commercial law section, has been named the Boston Best Lawyers Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Lawyer of the Year for 2010.
Wayland Town Crier 12/21/09: Repairs completed at Cochituate Village Apartments, including the ornate entablature over the Main Street entrance and the decorative parapet trim along the top of the building. The Wayland Housing Authority is sprucing up the apartments in preparation of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the Cochituate School building in 2010. Repairs were paid for by a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Wayland Town Crier 12/21/09: Congregation Or Atid class helps troops overseas.
Stop by Girl Scout Troop 3160′s Booth Sale at Donelan’s Supermarket on Wednesday, December 23 from 2-4pm. In addition to buying cookies for your family and friends, you can also donate cookies to our Troops overseas.
The Friends of the Wayland Rail Trail intend to work with the town of Wayland, state and federal government agencies, as well as local businesses and others to help make the rail trail a reality. Our demonstration of broad support for the rail trail in Wayland will enable us to secure funding and resources – Your signature is needed! Click here to sign the online petition supporting the Rail Trail. To receive The Friends of the Wayland Rail Trail's quarterly newsletter on progress with the rail trail, join their mailing list.
Wayland Town Crier 12/19/09: Planning financial future over next several years. Town-wide collaboration is the key to finding ways to close recurring budget gaps, according to the Finance Committee, which is recommending the establishment of an Economic Development Committee to bring fresh perspective and "out-of the-box thinking" to solve fiscal challenges. The FinCom reported on the results of a multi-year financial stability plan rolled out in 2006 at a budget forum on Monday night, and outlined new objectives for fiscal years 2011 to 2015.
The Finance Committee has posted these documents:
New Year’s Noisemakers: Also during vacation, on Wednesday, December 30, kids can drop in anytime between 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. to make noisemakers to ring in the new year!
Wills & Trusts in Uncertain Times: From 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, January 14, attorney Perry Ganz will present a seminar on basic estate planning and taxation in the library’s Raytheon Room
The next regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen will be held on Monday, December 21st beginning at 7:00 p.m. in Town Building. After convening the meeting and receiving public comment, the Board will discuss ambulance and advanced life support rates for 2010. At approximately 7:45 p.m., selectmen will hear a presentation by the Energy [...]
Wayland Town Crier 12/18/09: 'Wayland A-Z': 'R' is for 'Recreation'. The American passion for organized outdoor competitive sports has been visible in Wayland for nearly a century and a half. The Live Oak Baseball Club, formed in Cochituate in 1867, first played the Natick Eagles at City Pastures, which was located south of Commonwealth Road (Route 30), just west of the intersection of Main Street and Commonwealth Road (routes 27 and 30). Home teams played at City Pastures for 16 years before moving to the "New Baseball Ground," a field behind the Lyon’s Shoe Factory on Main Street (now Griffin Ball field). Games continued there between the Wayland Meadow Hens and Cochituate Shop Ends, the lasters at Bent’s factory and the lasters at Bryant’s factory, and between the boarding houses of the Lovejoys and American House. Cochituate teams also played against the Waltham Watch Factory team and a Harvard College team
Wayland Town Crier 12/18/09: Latest recipient of Ken Moon Award named. Earlier this month, longtime Wayland resident Mike Patterson, who has just stepped down as the property steward for the Upper Mill Brook conservation area, became the fourth recipient of the town’s Ken Moon Award, named after the community’s legendary volunteer who died four years ago.
New York Times 12/17/09: Wayland Water Department Water System. The New York Times has posted data collected by the Envinromental Working Group on contaminants found in local water supplies. Over the six years of posted data, Wayland had no contaminants found above legal limits, but 2 found above health guidelines (in 2004 and 2006).
Boston Globe 12/17/09: A new genre, Jewish rock, touches down in Boston, Brookline, and Wayland. Click the play button on the website, and at first the concert videos look like any rock show. The bass drum pounds out a backbeat. Colored spotlights rake a crowd of cheering, swaying teens. And Rick Recht looks every bit the rock star, with his long hair and worn jeans, as he steps to the microphone. But here’s the twist. He starts crooning a Jewish hymn such as “L’cha Dodi,’’ and hundreds of young voices sing the Hebrew lines back at him – along with a few random squeals. Such is the look and sound of a new genre, Jewish rock music. Rick Recht performs his “Shabbat Alive!’’ concerts on Saturday at 6pm at Temple Shir Tikva, 141 Boston Post Road, Wayland, $10 ($36 per family maximum), 508-358-9992, www.shirtikva.org.
A Cappella fans take note: Wayland High School’s Muses, T-Tones and Madrigals will hold their semi-annual concert on December 21st at 7:30 pm in the High School Little Theater. Many of the pieces on the program have been arranged by the groups themselves. The groups take the stage after appearing in the sold-out College A [...]
A Cappella fans take note: Wayland High School’s Muses, T-Tones and Madrigals will hold their semi-annual concert on December 21st at 7:30 pm in the High School Little Theater. Many of the pieces on the program have been arranged by the groups themselves. The groups take the stage after appearing in the sold-out College A [...]
With close to 450 students participating in the visual and performing arts, these programs are thriving at Wayland High School. In the past week students have had the opportunity to shine in band, chorus and orchestra concerts, and this time around the music was accompanied by an art show.
Along with the outstanding student performances this past week, special mention belongs to those music students who auditioned and were selected for the upcoming Senior District Festival (The students with starred names also qualified to audition for the all-state groups next spring): Orchestra: *Nichole Bell, viola; June Kim, cello; *Andrew Laven, cello; Suhana Ng, violin; *Grace Quinn, flute. Band: *Ryan Budnick, clarinet; *Patrick Curtin, tenor saxophone; *Alex Orlov, bassoon. Chorus: *Daniel Hyde, tenor; *Seth Lifland, bass.
The Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA), joined by the Town of Wayland, filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in support of the appeal by Twenty Wayland, LLC from the Superior Court decision allowing legal counsel to represent the Wayland Historic District Commission (HDC).
Wayland Town Crier 12/17/09: State group files brief supporting Wayland developer. The Massachusetts Municipal Association and the town of Wayland are backing Town Center developer Twenty Wayland in its efforts to disallow the town’s Historic District Commission from retaining its own attorney in a dispute with the developer.
Wayland Town Crier 12/17/09: Bonnie’s Bootcamp gaining buzz around town. Bonnie’s Bootcamp is starting up again next month on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30-10:15 am.
Wayland Town Crier 12/16/09: Wayland selectmen discuss Open Meeting Law case. The Board of Selectmen appeared slightly chastened Monday night as they responded to a resident’s accusation that they violated the state’s Open Meeting Law. George Harris has filed a complaint with the Middlesex district attorney’s office, saying a quorum of the board inappropriately met with U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas, D-5th, on Nov. 24. State law requires that meetings of town boards be announced publicly ahead of time.
Wayland Town Crier 12/17/09: Superintendent on FY11 budget: ‘We will make it work’. For the first time in nearly 30 years, the superintendent is recommending a reduction in the budget for the Wayland Public Schools for the upcoming 2010-11 school year. The School Committee will continue to hash out the budget at its upcoming meeting on December 21, and hold a public forum on January 4 to allow residents to offer their input.
THE WAYLAND DEPOT is having a very successful December thanks to their many clients and loyal volunteers! They have beautiful pottery, bags, scarves cards, art work and handsome handmade jewelry. Come and visit. All their profits all go back to many Wayland charities. They are open most every day of the week until Christmas. They will [...]
Wayland Town Crier 12/15/09: Search for Wayland Middle School principal. Beginning this month, the Wayland Public Schools will begin a principal search to find a replacement for John Kavaleski, principal of Wayland Middle School.
Jake Zane, a seventh grader at Wayland Middle School, is performing in the 39th annual Christmas Revels at Sanders Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, through December 27th. www.revels.org. Click here for ticket availability and information on purchasing online.
Wayland Town Crier 12/14/09: After tour with Tsongas, Wayland selectmen face open meeting complaint . Selectmen are scheduled tonight to discuss a complaint filed by local attorney George Harris that the board violated the Open Meeting Law Nov. 24 when U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas met with town officials for a tour of the proposed town center site and a discussion of economic issues.
WAYLAND BOARD OF HEALTH-
URGENT H1N1 ALERT INFORMATION
LAST CLINIC IN 2009*
Alert Message-H1N1 Community Vaccination Clinic
WHEN: Wednesday, December 16, 3-5pm
WHERE: Town Building
First Come-First Serve
• For all children 6 months to 18 years
• For healthy adults to age 49 without underlying health issues
• For adults 18-64 with documented health issue.**
* Additional clinics will follow in January 2010.
** Proof of high-risk medical conditions (inhaler for asthma, prescription, for example) for high risk categories will be required.
The Wayland Firefighter's Association is running the 46th Annual Santa's Ride, Sunday-Tuesday, December 20-22. The schedule for his tour through Wayland is as follows: December 20 Red Barn at Gray Birch 5:00 To 5:10 Marshall Terrace at #16 5:15 To 5:25 Campbell Road at #17 5:30 To 5:40 Oxbow Road at Sherman Bridge Road [...]
Santa's Ride schedule. The following is the schedule for the 46th annual Santa's Ride sponsored by the Wayland Firefighters Association: December 20 Red Barn at Gray Birch 5:00 To 5:10 Marshall Terrace at #16 5:15 To 5:25 Campbell Road at #17 5:30 To 5:40 Oxbow Road at Sherman Bridge Road 5:45 To 6:00 Moore Road [...]
The next regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen will be held on Monday, December 14 beginning at 7pm in Town Building. After convening the meeting in the Selectmen's Meeting Room, the Board will recess to attend the Finance Committee presentation on their updated long-range finance plan in the Large Hearing Room. At [...]
Wayland Student Press Network 12/11/09: High school undergoes k-9 assisted drug search. After 2nd block on Friday, Principal Patrick Tutwiler instigated a “shelter in place” drill. According to an e-mail sent out to parents and guardians the purpose of the drill was “twofold.”:
