Wellesley's Select Board voted down a plan to speed up air conditioning funding for two elementary schools. From our own coverage: Housing panel weighs budget as maintenance staff dwindles; Planning Board delays five house reviews to Nov. 2.
Select Board approves new Wellesley Place rents as fire chief defends North 40 station site. From our own coverage: Panel presses for cheaper Morses Pond materials; Health board to draft memo on school AC plan.
Wellesley's Advisory Committee clashed over a dissenting report on a special town meeting article and heard a wide-ranging FY28 budget preview from the schools.
The Wellesley School Committee voted 5-0 to adopt a streamlined annual town report, approve fiscal 2028 budget guidelines and appoint three parents to a new facilities task force.
Public Works board reports track and field building nears completion, weighs Phillips Park playground bids. From our own coverage: Track and field building nears completion.
Two Wellesley obituary notices appeared this week, for Curtin, Robert, 68, who died October 19, 2026, and Sanford, David, 90, who died October 21, 2026.
Wellesley's Board of Public Works, meeting Oct. 20, reported that construction at the Wellesley High School Track and Field building is nearing completion, with builder Triumph expected to wrap up in about a month.