Wellesley CITs: All grown up and ready to play

Wellesley and the state have come to an agreement regarding the final plan for Wellesley High School. As things stand now, an all-new, 280,000 gross square foot high school will be built at a cost of between $100 million and $110 million for design and construction.

For the drivers at Peter’s Pizza in Lower Falls, the dough just isn’t coming in as fast as it used to. With record-setting gas prices this summer, the shop’s delivery drivers are spending more and more of their own money to get around. Bira Olibeira, who makes an average of 20 to 25 delivery trips each day, said he spends about $25 on fuel each day. He isn’t reimbursed for the gas and with tips not reflecting increasing gas prices, Olibeira’s wallet isn’t getting any fatter.

Michael Thonis brings new meaning to the term “stairmaster." Three times a week, the 58-year-old Wellesley resident walks up and down 60 flights of stairs in the John Hancock Building, where his office is located. He tackles the stairs after work, when he’s less likely to run into colleagues. Yet there’s a reason behind this stair madness — Thonis, an experienced mountaineer, is conditioning his body to climb mountains. The stair climbing paid off because on July 13, Thonis, along with four others, climbed up and down Mount Washington in New Hampshire not once, but twice in one day.