St. Mark’s School announced this week that it has received a $5M challenge grant from an anonymous foundation to help fund substantial renovations to the School’s historic Main Building. Read the full article → from St. Mark’s gets $5M to renovate historic Main Building
Try this experiment. Go get yourself a length of toilet paper. Now fold it in half crosswise. Fold it in half again and again. It won’t take long – maybe three or four folds – before the paper won’t stay folded anymore. Now try taking 53,000 feet of toilet paper and folding it in half over and over. That’s exactly what a group of students from St. Mark’s did last week. Read the full article → from Ten miles of toilet paper: St. Mark’s tries to break mathematical record
A couple of you asked about the construction activity over the past few months at the intersection of Route 85 and Common Street across from St. Mark’s School. The work was all to install a new artificial field, a field St. Mark’s unveiled at a recent field hockey game. Read the full article → from St. Mark’s unveils new artificial turf field
In a post on their website earlier this year, St, Mark’s announced the construction of new faculty housing on campus. The school said the two new 4-bedroom housing units were made possible by the gift of an anonymous donor family. Read the full article → from St. Mark’s touts new faculty housing
I’ve always referred to the grass in front of St. Mark’s at the corner of Main Street and Route 85 a “lawn,” but I guess I’ll have to update my terminology. Read the full article → from St. Mark’s declares its lawn ‘sustainable’
In all the discussion about St. Mark’s lawn last week, some commenters also griped about bus traffic to and from the school on School Street and Latisquama Road. Residents along both roads presented a petition to selectmen last week asking them to do something about traffic they called “dangerous.” Read the full article → from Neighbors want an end to St. Mark’s traffic
I’ve had several readers ask me about the unusual mowing pattern on the St. Mark’s lawn this year. If you’ve driven down Main Street or Route 85, surely you’ve noticed that a large portion of the lawn has gone unmowed all spring, with the tallest of the blades now a good couple feet high. Read the full article → from Good question: What’s up with the lawn in front of St. Mark’s?
From Wicked Local Southborough: Treble choirs from three schools will be featured in an evening choral festival on Thursday, Oct. 15, at 7 p.m. in the Class of 1945 Hall at St. Mark’s School in Southborough. The Fay School Chorus and Boy’s Chorus, the All Saints Church (Worcester) Boys Choir and St. Cecilia Choir and Read the full article → from Treble Choir Festival at St. Mark’s tonight
I’m a huge fan of Top Chef on Bravo TV. Season 6 started Wednesday night, and this time there’s a contestant with local ties to root for. Cheftestant Ashley Merriman graduated from St. Mark’s in 1994. She went on to Hamilton College and then the Institute of Culinary Education in New York. Most recently she Read the full article → from St. Mark’s alum a ‘Top Chef’
St. Mark’s Summer Music Institute culminates on Friday night with the performance A Salute to the American Musical, a revue of songs from the American musical theater tradition. Student performers enrolled in the summer music program have been rehearsing for the past two weeks in preparation for the performance. They’ll be directed by Martha Collins Read the full article → from Saluting the musical at St. Mark’s School
As part of their fourth annual Summer Music Festival, St. Mark’s will host a free concert series starting Friday and featuring performances by both students and faculty. All concerts take place in the Class of 1945 Hall in the Performing Arts Center (map) and are open to the public. Here’s the schedule (via Wicked Local Read the full article → from Summer concert series at St. Mark’s starts Friday
St. Mark’s is adopting some changes to make their operations a bit greener. They eliminated the use of trays in their dining center to conserve water and cut down on wasted food. This fall they’ll use an organic approach to maintain their athletic fields. And the Board of Trustees recently adopted a nine point Sustainability Read the full article → from St. Mark’s adopts green practices
St. Mark’s will hold its commencement ceremony today starting at 10:30 am, which may mean some extra traffic in the area. If you’re so inclined, you can watch the commencement online. And in case you’re wondering, the Algonquin graduation ceremony is on Sunday, June 7. Read the full article → from St. Mark’s commencement today
You could go shopping on Black Friday, or you could do something much more fun, like ice skating. The rink at St. Mark’s will open for free skating starting Friday. There are free skate opportunities during each of the upcoming school holidays, including Thanksgiving, Christmas, and February vacation. Check out the schedule on the Rec Read the full article → from St. Mark’s opens for skating starting Friday