More than you really want to know about Natick, Mass.
We didn’t quite catch the outdoor thermometer in Natick Center at its peak coldness, but came pretty close at 7 below Fahrenheit and 22 below Celsius.
Don’t miss the Natick Community Organic Farm‘s Maple Magic Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, March 4, 8am-10am, at the Memorial Elementary School cafeteria, 107 Eliot St., Natick.
Load up on all you can eat pancakes with all the fixins, and plenty of real, local maple syrup made from sap collected from area maple trees and boiled down in the farm’s sugar shack. Vegan and gluten free options will be available.
There will be live music, a raffle, and more.
Members $10/adults, $5 child under 12. Non-members $12/adult, $6 child under 12.
Freezing nights in the 20s and warm days in the 40s trigger the sugar maple sap run, which starts the farm’s sugaring season. Learn the science and history of “sugaring” during tours at the NCOF that start Feb. 11 and run through March 11.
Visitors will learn Indigenous people and Colonist historical techniques for making maple sugar. Learn about tree identification, qualities of sap and syrup, how to tap, and more at the farm’s outdoor displays and tapped trees. If the weather’s just right, tour groups will watch sap dripping into buckets and boiling in the sugar shack.
Even though Mother Nature can’t guarantee the sap run (and boiling) on any given day, tours are still interesting and fun, and offer visitors a fascinating view of this enduring New England tradition.
Tours are one hour long and are open to the public for a $10 fee per person. Babes in carriers are free.
The Natick Community-Senior Center is building a list of individuals and businesses available to help local seniors with snow removal when the time comes. We were asked if we could help to spread the word.
The contact is Debbie Budd at 508-647-6540 x1906
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Who would have thought tree-lined Pond Road would have been the safest route between Rte. 16 in South Natick and Rte. 135 on Friday morning as rain and wind whipped up a storm?
But indeed, a downed wire fire closed off the low end of Union Street, and felled trees shut down Rte. 16 and Rte. 135 between Natick and Wellesley before safety crews cleaned things up.
Marcia Lowry, who lives in the Wethersfield neighborhood, was saddened to lose a 50-plus-year-old birch that stood 35 ft. high.
“It managed to break in half and fall just the right way to hit nothing but the street sign at the corner,” she said (if you’re with a tree service and would be interested in this job, let us know at natickreport@gmail.com and we can pass along your contact info).
Here’s a huge branch that snapped along Rte. 16 in South Natick. (Got any good photos to share? Please send to natickreport@gmail.com and let us know what we’re looking at).
We lost power Saturday morning into early afternoon, but Eversource was on the job and got things running again before the frigid weather was to descend.
The Natick Fire Department posted a dramatic video on Facebook of the Union Street situation.
The Wellesley Police captured a series of storm-related videos, including on Rte. 135.
Update: Central St (Rt 135) remains closed and detoured from Weston Road to the College entrance due to this tree down. pic.twitter.com/1y55YOodMd
— Wellesley Police (@WellesleyPolice) December 23, 2022
Scenes from Coolidge Woods behind Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick, off of Union Street. We weren’t the first to break into the new snow on Monday morning, but might have been the first to attempt pull-ups and a few other exercises on the trail after snowfall…
More: Natick hike—the Coolidge Woods area
