School Committee will meet in person (Education Center, Room 218) in Executive Session on Monday, January 27 at 5:45PM. The agenda includes the following: School Committee will meet in person (Education Center, Room 210) and virtually (Zoom link) on Monday, January 27 at 6:30PM. The agenda includes the following:
Posts published in January 2025
Newton Cultural Council will meet in person (1294 Centre Street, Newton Centre) and virtually (Zoom link) on Monday, January 27 at 6PM. The agenda includes the following: Newton Parks and Recreation Commission will meet in person (Room 204) and virtually (Zoom link) on Monday, January 27 at 7PM. The agenda…
Development Review Team (DRT) is scheduled to meet this week regarding these potential projects/proposals (see DRT Snapshot):
Newton Community Pride’s 4th annual WinterFEST will host the annual Community Soup Social at the Hyde Community Center (90 Lincoln Street, Newton Highlands) on Saturday, January 25, 5:30PM-7PM. Register here. It will be held INSIDE THE GYM due to snow and cold. This free event features an array of delicious…
We updated Mayor Fuller proposes pilot of a new Community Plaza in Newton Centre to include a link to the City’s map of its Draft Parking Redistribution Plan with the locations of 67 proposed new parking spaces.
I was appalled to learn that Newton’s City Council has overwhelmingly approved a ban on tobacco sales to people born after a particular date. If approved by the Mayor, this law will set a dangerous precedent by creating separate classes of citizens with different legal rights. If this is accepted,…
West Newton Cinema is launching a new series — Producer’s Circle — to connect documentary filmmakers with potential donor/producers. Each event in the series will showcase curated clips of a filmmaker’s past work along with rough cuts or assembly edits from the filmmaker’s current documentary project, followed by a Q&A…
After sharing stories — moving and sometimes personal — about the dangers of smoking, City Councilors voted 19 to four (with one absent), on January 21, to approve a ban on the sale of tobacco and e-cigarette products in Newton to those born after March 1, 2004. The measure will…
On January 21, the City Council voted to approve Mayor Ruthanne Fuller’s nomination of W. David Power to fill the vacant Republican seat on the Newton Election Commission. Despite a recommendation by the Programs and Services Committee to deny the appointment, the vote to approve was 13 to 9 with…
On the day reserved in the U.S. to honor slain civil rights leader the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., several speakers at Newton’s 57th annual community celebration of his life contrasted Dr. King’s character, values, and ethics with those of President Donald J. Trump, the other man in the…
Mayor Ruthanne Fuller has proposed a pilot project to build a temporary community plaza in Newton Centre over part of the central triangle parking lot that is bounded by Beacon Street, Centre Street, and Langley Road. The new plaza would be built on about one-fifth of the parking lot, on…
What started as modest yoga practice in a cramped garret on Lincoln Street in Newton Highlands has blossomed into a leading presence in the Boston yoga scene. How did Down Under School of Yoga achieve this transformation? Founder Justine Cohen traced the improbable transformation. Cohen’s upbringing in Perth, Western Australia,…