Loker School Hosts World's Fair Sunday Afternoon
WAYLAND — A student-run World's Fair on the Loker School back field is the main public event in town this Sunday afternoon, while commercial outlets focus on a Finance Committee recruiting push and a milestone for one of Wayland's oldest businesses.
SCHOOLS
The district's All Schools News flagged a World's Fair set for Sunday, May 17, from 2 to 4 p.m. on the Loker School back field. It is one of the spring's larger cross-school community gatherings, drawing families from across the elementary grades.
The district's weekly newsletter cycle continues to remind families that submissions for All Schools News are due to All_SchoolsNews@WaylandPS.Org by end of day Friday for distribution the following Wednesday.
COMMUNITY & ARTS
The Wayland Museum & Historical Society's "Tracing Liberty" series rolls on as part of the town's semiquincentennial programming. The next installment is a Walk, Wonder, and Discover nature walk at Lake Cochituate's town beach, 25 Parkland Drive, on Sunday, May 31 at 9 a.m. It follows the museum's May 13 talk, "Forgotten Fighters: Chinese Soldiers in the Civil War," held at the Council on Aging.
The Vokes Players have announced "1776 in Concert," a concert-version staging of the Peter Stone and Stuart Ostrow musical, produced jointly with the Wayland 250 Committee and the Wayland High School theater department. Performances are set for June 12 and June 13 at 7:30 p.m. at Wayland High School. The summer mainstage, Joe DiPietro's "Over the River and Through the Woods," directed by David Berti, runs July 24 through Aug. 8 at the Vokes Theatre on Boston Post Road.
The Council on Aging has posted its May 2026 newsletter and reminds seniors that the Community Center at 8 Andrew Ave. will be closed Tuesday, May 19, and Monday, May 25, for the Memorial Day holiday.
ELSEWHERE IN THE NEWS
"Wayland Finance Committee Expands Search For Handful Of New Members" — The seven-member panel, which helps shape the town's annual budget and capital planning, is broadening outreach to fill several open seats, per Wayland Patch. (read it at https://patch.com/massachusetts/wayland)
"Historic Wayland Family Business Celebrates 150 Years" — Russell's Garden Center has now operated under five generations of the same family since 1876, according to a Wayland Patch feature on the Route 20 landmark. (read it at https://patch.com/massachusetts/wayland)
"🌱 Patch AM: How will Wayland handle a looming wave of staff retirements?" — Patch's morning briefing previews a workforce-planning challenge facing town departments as a cohort of longtime employees nears retirement, per Wayland Patch. (read it at https://patch.com/massachusetts/wayland)
COMING UP
• Sunday, May 17, 2–4 p.m. — World's Fair, Loker School back field. • Tuesday, May 19 — Council on Aging closed. • Monday, May 25 — Council on Aging closed for Memorial Day observance. • Sunday, May 31, 9 a.m. — Walk, Wonder, and Discover at Lake Cochituate, town beach, 25 Parkland Drive (Wayland Museum). • Wednesday, June 3, 7 p.m. — "Tracing Liberty" book discussion of Tilly Laskey's "Precious & Adored," Wayland Free Public Library and on Zoom.