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Municipal Meeting Recap
Capital Improvement Planning CommitteeThe Capital Improvement Planning Committee voted unanimously Tuesday to issue an addendum to its fiscal 2027-31 report documenting a 2-2 vote on Article 16. The deadlock left…
Nine-year-old doll-maker has entrepreneurial bent
leslie.castillo@waylandpost.orgAfter spending an afternoon with her mother creating their own dolls, Nina Garcia-Rivera was inspired and thought doll-making would be a great idea for a business — so she designed…
Could Sudbury dustup have implications for Wayland?
A governance fight unfolding in neighboring Sudbury has raised a question that resonates well beyond one town line: could a similar no-confidence movement emerge in Wayland if tensions over school…
Regional emergency dispatch still a work in progress
Framingham Regional Dispatch Center Continues Development as Wayland Advances ParticipationBy Wayland Post StaffFramingham’s long-developing regional emergency dispatch center remains under construction more than a year after state officials awarded millions…
Wayland Postmaster Mark Stone retires
june.valliere@waylandpost.orgRecently retired Wayland Postmaster Mark Stone was called a revolutionary in the 1990s by his U.S. Postal Service contemporaries. As a member of the team called the Revolutionaries, he mapped…
Players enjoy fun, food, and prizes at WayPo bingo benefit
leslie.castillo@waylandpost.orgApproximately 65 people showed up to support the Wayland Post at its fundraiser at the Community Center on Andrew Avenue on Sunday, May 3. Players of all ages yelled “Bingo!”…
Short, Tang honored at Town Meeting
Michael Short received the C. Peter R. Gossels Good Government Award and Yauwu Tang got the Lydia Maria Child Award at Wayland’s Annual Town Meeting earlier this month.Short's decades of…
Harleman wins Chopped for Charity competition
Open Table, the MetroWest charity dedicated to fighting hunger and building healthy communities, announced that Chef Erin Harleman owner of The Saucy Plate, a Wayland-based personal chef service, was the winner…
What 598 donors have built in just 15 months
For more than a year, Wayland residents have quietly built something increasingly rare in American communities: a locally funded independent newspaper supported directly by the people it serves.Over the last…
Town Meeting OK’s Route 20 zoning change, water outlay
dave.watkins@waylandpost.orgVoters at Wayland’s annual Town Meeting approved a $112.9 million fiscal 2027 operating budget, a $9.4 million capital spending plan, and $38.6 million in borrowing for a new water treatment…
