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SPS: Teaching Spanish Without a Curriculum Doesn’t Produce Bilingual 6th Graders

In a revelation that has sent shockwaves through the local educational establishment, a new consulting report has concluded that teaching elementary schoolers a foreign language for just 40 minutes a week, without a formalized curriculum or instructional materials, somehow fails to result in fluency. The stunning findings, presented at the October 19 Sudbury Public…

ByKevin LaHaise1 day ago

Rami Alwan Receives Sustainable Sudbury’s Jane Coddington Award

The steering committee of Sustainable Sudbury conferred our Coddington Award to Rami Alwan, for his service as a member and Chair of the Energy and Sustainability Committee for the Town of Sudbury and for his longstanding collaboration with Sustainable Sudbury on Wednesday, 10/15/26. The Jane Coddington Award was established in 2000, to honor Jane…

ByDebbie WolozinOctober 16, 2026

Pictures From Bordeaux

Le Manège Noël Eternel Inside Antoine et Lily Le Monument aux Girondins Grapes at Sunday outdoor market Wine vendor at Sunday outdoor market Maison Georges Lamicol Caviste Window shopping Chef Gordon Ramsay’s resto Lighting at my parent’s home Stained glass and palm tree at my parent’s home Cathédrale-Primatiale Saint-André de Bordeaux Skate boarding in town center Merman Mascaron Perrin Pâtisseie Arch at La Porte Dijeaux Le jardin public Le Jardin…

ByRaphaëlle CruzOctober 12, 2026

Duck Soup Celebrates 55 Years—And Its Customers

Quoting from the company’s 1971 mission statement, Louise Mawhinney, owner of the iconic Duck Soup store in Mill Village, emphasized, “We are where customers become friends and friends become customers.” She was joined at an Oct. 10 celebration of the store’s 55 th anniversary by Jim Barisano, one of the founders, who also cited…

ByNancy BrumbackOctober 11, 2026

Liberty Ledge/Sewataro Report Well Received At Input Session

Sudbury is one step closer to completing a 44-acre Rorschach test following a well-attended public input session for the Liberty Ledge/Sewataro Advisory Committee's (LLSAC) draft report to the Sudbury Select Board. The October 8 meeting took place in the Fairbank Community Center and virtually. During the meeting, the members of the LLSAC read…

ByKevin LaHaiseOctober 8, 2026

Highlights from Sudbury’s Draft 2026–2036 Open Space and Recreation Plan

Sudbury has released the public review draft of its 2026–2036 Open Space and Recreation Plan (OSRP), establishing a roadmap for the town's natural resources, active parklands, trail networks, and municipal investments over the next decade. Developed in collaboration with the BSC Group, municipal staff, local boards, and community feedback, the updated plan re-establishes Sudbury’s eligibility…

ByKevin LaHaiseOctober 6, 2026

A Taste of Greece

How a few treasured recipes take me back to the Greece I love For me, Greece is the most beautiful country on earth—the sunlight on the vast sweep of the Aegean in the morning, the white-walled villages clinging to the hillsides on the islands, the wooden boats fishing under a full moon with special lanterns—all…

ByLeta SerafimOctober 2, 2026

Bright autumn colors reflecting on a serene lake in Southborough, Massachusetts.

We Still Need Rain

Sudbury weather for September ended with a three day noreaster which yielded, over that period, 3.34 inches of rain. That helped our monthly total with 5.27 inches. But…we are still below normal for the year. Sudbury receives, on average, 48 inches of rain each year and for the most part that's 4 inches per month.…

ByJohn PalmieriOctober 2, 2026

Thoughts In Return? This Sudbury Dad Is Using AI to Get People Off Their Screens and Outside

One night while walking his dogs, Sudbury dad Michael Oxton looked up at the sky and it piqued his curiosity. Oxton, who co-founded Night Shift Brewing and now runs the pet health startup Everfur, turned that curiosity into Outside Now, a free daily list of what's worth seeing outside, from meteor showers and migrating birds…

BySudbury WeeklySeptember 29, 2026

Thoughts In Return? Threadline Psychological and Educational Services

After 20 years as a school psychologist, and as a mother of four, Lara Urso understands what families go through when something isn't clicking. At Threadline Psychological and Educational Services in Concord, she now offers a comprehensive set of services including psychoeducational evaluations and small social-emotional enrichment groups, all built on a strengths-based approach that…

BySudbury WeeklySeptember 24, 2026

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