PHOTOS: Taste of Spring: Dairy Joy opens for season

While the weather wasn’t quite up to summer temperatures, Dairy Joy opened its windows for the season this past weekend.

By Chris Larabee

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April 20, 2026

While the weather wasn’t quite up to summer temperatures, Dairy Joy, Weston’s beloved ice cream and snack shack located at 331 North Ave. on Route 117, opened its windows for the season this past weekend.

*Shaelyn Hart hands Natalie Gilson, 5, and Janet Sobel of Brookline, an ice cream on Saturday, April 18, for Dairy Joy’s opening weekend. (Chris Larabee/Weston Observer)*

*Natalie Gilson, 5, of Needham, takes a big lick of her ice cream at Dairy Joy on opening day, Saturday, April 18. (Chris Larabee/Weston Observer).*

*Dairy Joy’s opening for the season drew plenty of customers on Saturday, April 18, despite a breezy, mostly cloudy afternoon. (Chris Larabee/Weston Observer)*

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Chris Larabee

Prior to joining the Weston Observer, Chris Larabee was a reporter for the Greenfield Recorder, with his work featured in The Recorder, the Daily Hampshire Gazette and Athol Daily News. He won a New England Newspaper & Press Association award for investigative reporting.

He can be reached at clarabee@westonobserver.org.

PHOTOS: Taste of Spring: Dairy Joy opens for season

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