Our 2025 Donors

Founders

We greatly appreciate your faith in the project and your commitment to bringing local news back to Weston.

Our Founders Campaign ran through December 31, 2025.

All Founding Donors

Please let us know if you would like your name listed differently or if your name is missing below. Thank you!

As of December 31, 2025

Ina and Stephen Abrams
Nasser Abu-Eid
Marge Ackerman
Jeanne B. Ackman
Gwen and Siisi Adu-Gyamfi*
Kerry Aldrich
Kate Bennison and Brett Alessi
Lorraine Alexander
Barbara and Ted Alfond
Sharon Alphas
Holly Ameden
Laurie Bent and Joel Angiolillo*
Wendy and Tim Armour*
Jean and Parrish Arturi
Sandra Ashley
Elizabeth Atkin
Irene and Ari Axelrod
Baghdady Family
Laura Barletta
Alison Barlow
Catherine and James Barry
Jeffrey Barz-Snell
Ilya Bass
Nancy Bates
Lisa and John Batter

Paul Bau
Gail Bayer
Stephen Bebis
Bruce Belason
Anne Benning
Alice and Tom Benson*
Julia Lorber Benson
Anna Berger
Barbara Berke
Carol V. Berman
Lisa and Bob Bertelson*
Jayme Betts
Jennifer and Kyle Betty
Zabeth Billingham
Claudia and Bob Birnbaum
Birnbaum/Jones Family
Susan and Bruce Birren
Christine Bishop
Donald Bisson
Danielle and Brian Black*
Gilman D. Blake III
Laura Bookman
Debbie Eakin Boshart
Nadine Young and Harvey Boshart
Boston Foundation, Essie’s Fund

Dorothy Bourassa
Sara Bowdoin
Betsey and John Boyd*
Stephanie Braun
Alison and Barry Braunstein
Molly Breiner
Cindy Brisky
Mary Bromfield
Paul Brountas
Renuka Brown
Chantal Z. Buchanan
Caroline C. Burnes
Busy Bee Florists
Dianne Butt
Elizabeth A. Cacciatore
David Cail
Becky and Dana Callow
Martha Carlock
Jane and Chris Carlson
Lisa and John Carusone
Barbara Casey
Emily and Finn Caspersen
Cassum Family
Katty and Tack Chace
Aloke S. Chakravarty

Cynthia and Stephen Chapra
Joanne and David Charpie
Derek Chilvers*
Nancy and Lang Chin Family
Eumene Ching
Vibeke and Gustav Christensen
Nicholas Christman
Priscilla Claman
Deborah Clark
Elizabeth Clymer
Rhoda Cohen
Philippa and Peter Condakes
Catherine Smith and John Connolly
Rosemary Constantini
Jeri and Michael Cooper
Samantha and Rob Cooper
Nancy Cosimi
Matt Costello
Maria Cox
Joan Cushing Crawford
Barbara Critchlow
Melissa Crocker
Michael Cronin
Allyssa McCabe and Charles Cuneo*
James Cuseo

Patty Dacey
Susan M. Dacey
Debra Darling
Frances Daub
Alan Day
Donna and Bill Dec
Kathryn Dellerario
Kate Dickie
Sue Diehl
Beverly and Lance Dillaway
Julie Donnelly
Marga Hutcheson & Jonathan Dowse
Marilyn and Jack Doyle
Graham Dresden
Colleen Lucas and John Droney
Eastern Bank Foundation
Terry B. Eastman
Carola and Peter Endicott
Margret Ewald
Charishma and Alex Faigel
Loren and Jeff Feingold*
Shirley Fennell
Ali Dorman Fernandez
Donald Fischer
Steven Fischer

Gretchen S. Fish*
Laurie and Steven Fishman
Patricia and William Fitzsimmons
Phyllis Halpern and David Fixler
Michelene Flanigon
Joan Garrity Flynn
Alan Fobes
Paul Foley
Tod and Georgia Foote
Marie Forbes
Lim Ford Family
Pamela Fox*
Joyce Jen and Ken Freedberg
Susan Ruskin and David Friend
Barbara Fullerton
Karen and Bill Gallagher
Kanchan and Om Ganda
Rebekah Lord Gardiner
Cara and Timothy Gavin
Sean German
Melissa and James Gerrity
Jane Clark and Jon Gertler*
Erika Giampietro
Gildea Family
Stephanie and Randall Goldstein

Vida and Arthur Goldstein*
Miguel Gomez-Ibanez
Maija Cirulis-Gooch and Matthew Gooch
Phyllis Goodman
Dana Gould
Mary and Thomas Grape
Sven Grasshoff
BJ Grattan
Lisa Green
Sandra Kendall and Kenneth Green
Susan R. Gunderson
Todd Hadden
Susan Schaefer and Christian Halby
Raquel M. Halty
John Hanselman
Carol and Bruce Hanson
Linda and John Harding
Glen and William Harley
Karen and Brendan Harley
Jonathan Harris
Michael Harrity
Ann Wiedie and Keith Hartt
Jennifer Hashem
Elizabeth and Ripley Hastings*
Ellen Hawkes

Antoinette Hays
Christine and Scott Hayward
Joan and Warren Heilbronner*
Katharina and Brooks Helmick
John Hennessey
Lori Hess
Stephen Hibbard
Elizabeth Hickin
Robert Hillman
Jana Hinton
Michelle Hipwood
Alan Hirzel
Donna and Christian Hoffman
Scott Hoffman
Sandy and Jason Honeyman
Kate and John Houston
Stacy Vezina and Chris Houston
Christine Wahr and Neal David Howard
Barbara Howell
Victoria Huber
Hughes Family
Robert Hunter
Emily and David Hutcheson
Julie and Peter Hyde
Lydia and David Icke

Roger Inouye
Anne Jacobs
Seth Jacoby
Jancourtz Family in Memory of Isabella Jancourtz
John Jayne
Daniel Jester
Mimi Jigarjian
Linda Johnson*
Melissa Brokalakis and Wayne Johnson
Megan Jones
Pamela Joyce
Sandra and Stephen Kakes
Brian Kardon
Ellen Kaplan Kardon
Rebecca Kassekert
Claudia Krimsky and Gregory Kee
Laura and Tom Keery
Colleen Kettle
Gwen King
King Ravine Charitable Fund
Valerie Ann Kirshy
April and Robert Kiskaddon
Peter Knight
GK Knox
Cathy and Jeff Konover

Katharina Kraatz-Dunkel
Tina and Stan Kraus
Holly Kulow
Ellen Richstone and David Kwiatkowski
Joan Lappin
Melanie Larson
Mary Ellen Lavenberg
William Lawrence
League of Women Voters of Weston
Una-May O’Reilly and Blake LeBaron
Carol Lee
Marcy and Bruce Lee
Thomas M. Lenz
Teresa Levinson
Neil Levitt
Laraine C. Levy
Helen and Robert Lewis
Danhong Li
Jane Li
Linda and Ralph Linsalata
Jenifer Lipson
Robin and Robert Listfield
Lenore Zug Lobel
Denise and Ali Lotfi
Bang-Woel Lu Foundation

Danielle Lualdi
Nancy Lukitsh
Meghan Lytton
Jean MacQuiddy
Melissa Madias
Michael Majors
Stefania and George Mallett
Mary and Mark Marder
Louis Marett
Kathy and Roger Marino
Caroline Marple
Elizabethann Marshdoyle
Christine and William Martin
Eugenia and Richard Masland
Eric Mastromarchi
Eli Mather
Bernard J. Maurer
Eileen Fava and Michael McCarthy
Margaret Randle and Jim McDaniel
Patricia McGlynn
Karen McMahon
Carol C. McMullen
Karen and Brad Meslin
Eleanor and Craig Meyer
Bonnie Blanchfield and Gregg Meyer

Bobbi Clarke and Allen Michel
Victoria Mielke
Jennifer Millen
Laura Miller
Stephanie Lallet-Miron and Joshua Miron
Anna Mohn
Connie Moore
Nicole and David Mordecai
Alanna Muldoon
Madeleine and Joe Mullin
Pat and Blake Munson
Kamala Murali
Alyson Muzila
Catherine Riedel and Michael Myers
Barry Nelson
Linda Nelson
Rochelle Nemrow
Margaret and David Newton
Bob Nilsson
Judith Nitsch
Kimberly Notkin
Karen B. Novakoff
Luciana S. Noymer
Gail G. Watson Nozik*
Peg and Steve Ober

Soren Oberg
Alan Orth
Irene and Marek Orzechowski
Ott Family
Carol and Gene Ott
Marion and John Packs*
Suzanne and Christopher Palmer
Athena Papas
Mary and Ted Papastavros*
Maryann Pappanikou
Michael Pappone
Candace and Chris Paquin
Joan Parrish
Michael Pastrone
Sue Pauker
Julie Pemberton
Ingrid Holm and Mike Pemstein
Elly Pendergast
Frances Pennell
Dana L. Penney
Audrey Pepper
Gladys Perkins
Linda J. Perrin
Patricia Peters
Linda Kilburn and Bruce Peterson

Andrea and Paul Pettinato
Katie and Chris Phaneuf*
Janell Phillips
Isabel B. Phillips
Patrese and Donald Pierson
Camilla and Marc Pimentel*
Susan and Bill Poduska
Jim Polando
Claire Pontbriand
Nancy Poyer
Heidi Price
Thalia and Michael Price
Barbara Pyke
Rabb Family Foundation
Elizabeth Rafuse
Cathie Ragovin
Sandra and Habib Rahman
Tiina Smith and Larry Rand
Tahera and S. Asif Razvi
Henry Reeder
Kristen and Paul Reeder*
Joe Regan
Lisa and Bob Reitano*
Sarah Rhatigan
Jack Rich

Pamela Riffin
Marty and Rob Rodgers
Andrew Ross
Ellen Freeman Roth
Shirley Small-Rougeau
Kathleen and William Rousseau*
William C. Rowland
Anne and Rudy Ruggles
Michele Ryan
Janet Saad
Sacajawea Charitable Foundation
Jacob Sagrans
Carol and Bill Sahlman*
Rashmi and Venkatesh Saligrama
Michelle Samu
Alicia G. Sargent
Elizabeth Saunders
Claire and Edward Saxe
Vanessa Schaefer
Eileen D. Schaubert
Kirstin Schena
Sarah Maas Scheuplein
Camille Schmidek
David Scoll
Christopher Scott

Linda and James Scott
Robert Scott
Susan Scott
Robert Selover
Matthew Seltzer
Daina and Alex Selvig
Janis and Alan Semine
Andrea and Dushyant Shah
Mary Shaw
Christopher Shea
Jonathan Shih
Judith Harding and Art Shores
Deborah and Robert Slotpole*
Elaine Smith
Kitty and Ed Smith*
Maureen Callahan Smith
Diane Trahan Spencer
Stansky Family*
Donna Staton
Chris Stirling
Kristina and Carl Stjernfeldt
Henry Stone
Ann and Alan Strassman
Robin Strickman
Deb and Mike Sullivan

Jo Anne and Kevin Sullivan
Kristina Lucas and Kevin Sullivan
Mary Sullivan
Helen Sunderland
Syamala Swaminathan
Ed and Lynn Taff
Lee Tan
N. Nikrui and Carleton G. Tarpinian
Nathalie and John Thompson
Anna Thurber
Ethan Thurow
Jean Thurston
Cathy and Sandy Tierney
Terrence Tivnan
Jordan and Ben Tobey
Deborah Toppan
Judith and Harold Trainor
Cecile Tucker
Gina Turrigiano
Twenty Plus Foundation, Inc.
Judith Ullman
Laura Uyterhoeven
Lori van Dam
Anita Varma
Julia Varriale

Chay and Nick Veeder
Sally and Cai Von Rumohr
Rick Waechter
Maryellen Walker-Jacks
Jason Waltuch
Beverly F. Watson
Solomon Watson
Charlotte and Stephen Weeple
Ruth and William Weinstein
Sheila and Norman Weinstock
Weston Owl
Elizabeth Munro and Peter Wheeler
Charles Wheeler
Anita and Gus White
Jacqueline Whitten
Sarah and Mark Williamson
Joan Wilson
Eric Wilsterman
Cathleen Daley and Freddie Wiss
Gary Wolf
Lynne L. Wolf
Katherine and Marvin Wolfthal
Pamela Wood
Susie Woodworth
Virginia and Richard Wright

Martha M. Wright
Heidi Wyle
Kay Richardson Wynant
Jane Yarze

Marilyn J. Zacharias
Susan and Greg Zacharias*
Marilyn and Stuart Zerner
Yaning Zhang

*Donors contributing $5,000 or more during this campaign. These donors will be included in our Founders Circle and will be recognized in perpetuity on the website.