A bear was spotted in the woods in Wellesley on Saturday.

No word on what it was doing there, but police officers gave chase, which somebody with a fevered mind might imagine started a chain reaction in which a deer was so frightened by a rampaging bear charging it that it started running and didn't stop until it got to the Prudential tunnel in Boston, where it would sadly be hit by a car.

A couple who met on a Worcester Line train are getting married on the train today, the Globe reports:

... Richey, 36, and Miller, 40, will exchange vows on the inbound P556 between Southborough and Wellesley Farms as the train rolls along on its normal schedule. ...

The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today a nonexistent road at the Weston/Wellesley town line can't keep a man from building a house on a nearby lot.

Seems back in 1940, a developer proposed a subdivision straddling the town line that included a road between the two towns. But he never built the Wellesley end of the road, the town of Wellesley never voted to accept it and Wellesley residents put up both a wall AND a stockade fence at the town line (you know how those Westonians get) and eventually extended their lawns and yards onto the theoretical road.

In 2002, Robert Carlson bought the house at 107 Manor Ave., with plans to replace it with a new house. He says (see comments below) he knew about the paper road and bought the property intending to go to Land Court to get it declared evaporated because, well, the law generally frowns on building houses in the middle of the street.

Although the town of Wellesley had no objections to deleting the road from its maps, Carlson's neighbors, the Fontenellas, did, to the point of successfully using the claim that their deed gave them specific rights to use the non-existent road, that they certainly hadn't abandoned it - even though they had incorporated the land meant for it into their side lawn. A lower-court judge agreed with them that "the evidence of abandonment was insufficient."

In its ruling today, the appeals court reversed the ruling, essentially arguing: Who are you kidding?

At the point on Carlson's northerly boundary line where Tyler Road theoretically crosses into Weston, it is blocked by a stone wall that has existed since 1940. In addition, private parties have constructed a stockade fence that makes passage between the two towns at that juncture impossible. The entire area at issue, furthermore, has been fully incorporated into the lawns of both parties. In Carlson's case, Tyler Road also crosses over a portion of his driveway.

However, one judge did dissent:

Generally, intent to abandon requires affirmative actions by the dominant owners inconsistent with use of the easement. In the instant case the only affirmative act by the dominant owners was extension of their yard into the portion of the easement that falls on their property. I am aware of no Massachusetts cases in which this type of lawn enlargement was found sufficient to establish abandonment.

The complete ruling:

Over in Wellesley, developers replaced a perfectly fine inn with some serious negative space.

100 fall ill; college seeks to sterilize entire buildings.

After all, attendees at the college's annual BioIndustry Forum next week would probably not appreciate the irony of coming down with the awful, if rarely fatal, infection.

South African MBA student gets word out about lockdown.

Rte. 16 shut down, commuter-rail trains weren't stopping, bomb squad called in. Wicked Local Wellesley provides the blow by blow.

The Boston Globe may be cutting back local news coverage in the city, but out past 128, they've just added a new Your Town page.

Wellesley Police report you can once again get off Rte. 9 at Rte 16. Woot!

Via the Swellesley Report, which is beside itself in amazement.

Wellesley Police have a spiffy new Web site (but where's the police log?). They've posted this video of some of the excitement in town during yesterday's storm:

Via The Swellesley Report.

Video of a burning, collapsing cell tower in Wellesley off Rte. 9 eastbound today.