While walking through the Natick Mall tonight, friends and I almost passed the pushcart kiosk featuring Vino Cotto. The words “Vino Cotto” somehow caught my eye. I stopped and turned to see our good neighbor Deena Montillo.
Ah-ha! I knew she and her husband Greg had been building a business making Vino Cotto [...]

The Framingham History Center recently hosted a roundtable discussion about the Sarah Clayes House on Salem End Road.  The house, one of the oldest in Framingham, was built around 1693 by Peter and Sarah Clayes, who were one of several families impacted by the Salem Witch Trials that relocated to land then owned by Thomas Danforth.  [...]

I confess I’ve never paid much attention to birds in Framingham except noting the huge numbers that congregate on the telephone wires at the lights on Rt. 30 and the Burr St. Extention by Midway Motors.
My mother, on the other hand, has several bird feeders and enjoys the variety of birds that visit her yard in Maynard.  [...]

Today was election day in Massachusetts to decide who will succeed Senator Ted Kennedy.  I didn’t head to vote until around 5:30 p.m.
As the snow fell in bigger and bigger clumps, the driveway in and out of the King School was clogged with cars, more than I’ve ever experienced when going to vote.
The closest experience was [...]

The Framingham School Committee is reviewing a plan for organizing the elementary schools.
Parents are paying attention and discussing the plan online on Facebook and on an email listserve, frambors as well as attending the open public forums.
I hope that the school committee and the media get input from the communities such as Southborough, that have implemented [...]