Students have until 5PM on March 31 to apply for one of up to four scholarships to be awarded this year by the Charles River Regional Chamber to deserving students who either live and/or attend school in Needham, Newton, Watertown or Wellesley and who plan to attend an accredited college…
Posts published in March 2023
Sign-ups to perform at Newton PorchFest 2023 are now open until March 31. Porchfest will take place on Saturday, June 3 from 12PM – 6PM in Auburndale, Lower Falls, and Waban Center (rain date: Sunday, June 4). Newton PorchFest is an afternoon of free music performed outside of people’s homes.…
Newton’s Jackson Walnut Park School is one of nine Catholic schools to be featured in the Central Suburban Education Expo on April 1, 9AM-noon, at Cambridge Matignon School (1 Matignon Way, Cambridge). Jackson School and Walnut Park Montessori are a collaborative, operating as a single institution for Grades K-6, welcoming children…
The John M. Barry Boys & Girls Club of Newton will host its EPIC Annual Gala on Saturday, April 1, 6PM-10PM. EPIC stands for the the Club’s values: Excellence, Pride, Integrity & Collaboration. The Newton business community, city leaders, and other friends and supporters of the Boys & Girls Club…
A Cappella April! is coming to Newton South High School on Saturday, April 1 at 7PM. This one-night only, all-ages event features R & B/Soul/Pop a cappella group Ball in the House, with special performances by Newton student groups: Bigelow Beats, Brown Middle School A Cappella, The Northern Lights, and The Melocotones.…
The Newton Conservators invite you to join a five-mile hike through woods, meadows, and fields along the Newton sections of the Sudbury and Cochituate aqueducts. This is a steady but not fast hike. Participants should be in sufficiently good shape to keep up with the group (there are cutoffs for…
The First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton (FUUSN) will host a fundraising concert — The ‘B’ees Knees: Folksy Romanticism of Babajanian, Bruch & Brahms — on April 2 at 2PM at FUUSN (1326 Washington Street, West Newton). The Eleuthera Trio (Francine Trester on violin, Julie Reimann on cello, and Lois…
Cherry Street Players will continue their Classical with a Twist series with a concert, Women in Time, on April 2 at The Allen Center (35 Webster Street, West Newton). The prelude at 3PM features Newton composers Francine Trester and Jackie Zhang. The concert at 4PM features compositions by Trester, Sarasate’s…
The City’s Planning and Development Department invites the public to an online information session regarding the Albemarle Road Traffic Calming Project on Monday, April 3 at 6PM (Zoom link; 646-558-8656, meeting id: 862 8523 9203). Learn about the project, offer comments, and ask questions! The City will present the proposed…
The following potential projects/proposals are scheduled to meet this week with the Development Review Team (see DRT Snapshot):
Walk any street, sidewalk or park and you will find littered plastic waste, including bottles, packaging and even floss sticks. Plastic is truly everywhere, even in our bodies, in the fish we eat and in the stomachs of marine mammals. It is poisoning seabirds, the marine environment and ourselves. The…
On Sunday, March 26 at 3PM, the public is invited to a Gala Jimmy Fund Benefit Concert featuring the world premieres of new music commissioned to honor the memory of Sarah Jane Boling. A long-time Newton resident, Sarah passed away March 24, 2022, after a year of battling Glioblastoma, a…