2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (239+ words) Weston High School teacher Michael Aitkenhead will be part of an expedition this summer to the largely unexplored Boiling River of the Peruvian Amazon, joining a group of 30 or more educators, journalists, and scientists, including Andr's Ruzo, who in 2011 became…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (370+ words) Weston Middle School teacher Andrew Marone will travel to Peru this summer, having been awarded a fellowship by the U. S. State Department for the Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms program. The program is a yearlong professional learning opportunity for educators, aimed…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago  (342+ words) Alice Sullivan, a Weston High School senior, is the recipient of the highly competitive national P. E. O. Star Scholarship Award in the amount of $2, 500 for "excellence in leadership, extracurricular activities, community service, academics, and potential for future success." Alice will attend the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (146+ words) Weston High School students Alexander Zhao-Ming Sung and Isabelle Collins were honored on May 12 as winners in the 21st annual eesmarts student contest by Energize Connecticut. Mr. Sung's entry was "The True Cost of Energy," a 12-cell comic strip illustrating the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (131+ words) A shoe drive by Weston's St. Francis of Assisi Preschool aims to raise funds to complete a major playground renovation by turning donated footwear into cash. The preschool has already finished the first phase of renovation, but now needs help…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (448+ words) To the question of what to do about Weston Middle School, on May 4 the Board of Education heard estimates for renovation with a "small R," an incremental approach less ambitious than a full-scale renovation-as-new. The bottom line: $100 million. That figure,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (313+ words) Starting with the school budget, while the Board of Education (BOE) responded to the Board of Finance's request for a $600, 000 reduction with $519, 128 in cuts, the substance of those reductions tells a different story. A closer look shows that much of…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (705+ words) Decisions about next steps for a possible Weston Middle School construction project are now in the hands of the Board of Selectmen, as on Monday evening the Board of Education voted only to send engineering reports, design concepts, cost estimates…...