To begin the April 27 School Committee meeting, two Bigelow Middle School educators were among the public comment speakers to advocate for staff restoration to address the middle school team sizes. Superintendent Kathy Smith followed the public comment period by giving her scheduled update, during which she congratulated the central…
Posts published in April 2023
The Cabot Park Black History Lecture series will continue on May 1 at noon with a talk by Harvard Divinity School professor and author, Dr. Terrence Johnson, who will speak on Racism and Spirituality. The event, in the Community Room at Cabot Park Village (280 Newtonville Ave.), is free and open to the public.…
It’s spring, and the volunteer-run Swap Shop is again open at the City’s Resource Recovery Center on Rumford Avenue. It’s open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, 7:30AM-1:30PM, weather permitting, until October. Starting this week, the Swap Shop will become a bit more weather-resistant, as the City is installing a 30 ft.…
In Newton celebrates Earth Day, we added a parenthetical note to indicate that Martina Jackson, one of the organizers of the Earth Day rally, is a member of the board of Fig City News. We revised Reuse! Recycle! Compost! to correctly state the name of the Sustainable Materials Management Commission…
During a special meeting on Tuesday, April 25, the School Committee voted to accept Mayor Fuller’s in-meeting proposal to transfer responsibility for making Newton Public Schools (NPS) employees’ Other Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB) contributions from the NPS budget to the City budget. This proposal effectively rejected Ward 2 representative Chris Brezski’s…
The City Council’s Committee of the Whole Meeting originally scheduled for Wednesday, April 26 at 8AM has been rescheduled to Wednesday, May 3 at 8AM (see Meeting Cancellation Notice and Agenda). Newtonville Area Council will meet virtually (Zoom link) on Thursday, April 27 at 7PM. The agenda includes the following:
Painter Linda Rinearson remembers the first customers who bought her creations years ago: A young couple moving into a new home and a father and his 9-year-old daughter seeking a Mother’s Day present. The Newton resident said she hopes her work still makes them happy as she looks forward to…
Earth Day weekend came to a close, but not due to poor weather. Neither Saturday’s 50-degree chills nor Sunday’s rain could prevent a hundred or so people from gathering on each of those days to celebrate and draw attention to Newton’s actions toward a greener future. Two events – the…
On April 22, returning from a clean-up of the Newton Centre Playground, Newton South High School’s Green Student Movement, Key Club, and UNICEF chapters attended the Newton Democratic City Committee Earth Day rally on the Newton Centre Green. Although their appearance was unplanned, club leaders and participants said that attending…
That is the subtext of the proposed ban on single-use plastic water bottles in Newton currently under consideration by the City Council’s Programs and Services Committee. The proposed ordinance, offered by Councilor Vicki Danberg (Ward 6, at-large) would expand upon Newton’s ban on the commercial use plastic bags to other…
On Friday, April 21, the Newton Planning and Development Department released its updated Village Center Zoning Redesign plan, Version 2.0, based on comments and concerns voiced at the City Council’s Zoning and Planning meetings. (NewTV’s video of the April 24 meeting) Among the changes from Version 1.0 to 2.0 is…
The Council on Aging and Advisory Council held their monthly meeting last night. Chair Joan Belle Isle reported that a contract was recently signed with UMASS Boston’s Gerontology Institute to conduct a needs assessment that will be launched in September. The last needs assessment was conducted with the John W.…