Eliot Church of Newton (474 Centre St, Newton Corner), an open and affirming United Church of Christ congregation, invites you to their candlelit Christmas Eve service at 7PM on Wednesday, December 24. Join them for the recounting of Christmas stories, wonderful music from their choir, organ, and piano. Enjoy many…
Posts published in November 2025
People of all faiths — or none — are invited to join the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton (1326 Washington St, West Newton) celebrate Christmas Eve on Wednesday December 24 at 7PM and 10PM. Enjoy choir music, brass and strings, carols, stories, and candle lighting. All are warmly welcome.
Newton’s Department of Public Works hosted Newton’s now-annual Pumpkin Smash outside City Hall on Saturday, November 1, with many inventive and powerful ways to smash post-Halloween jack o’ lanterns. Also available were environmentally themed exhibits about composting and managing food waste, Touch-a-Truck opportunities, food trucks, and ways to donate Halloween…
Ward 2 Councilor David Micley will hold an office hour on Monday, January 5 from 4PM to 5PM at Clover (835 Washington Street).
Keep your athlete active over winter break at the Newton Athletic Association Basketball Clinic, Monday, December 29 – Friday, January 2 from 9AM – 3PM at the Brown Middle School (125 Meadowbrook Rd, Newton Centre). Each day targets a key skill—ball-handling, shooting, finishing, footwork, defense, game situations, and more—led by…
The Newtonville Area Council holds Listening Hours monthly, alternating between Clover (855 Washington Street) and Caffè Nero (28 Austin Street) in Newtonville. Next one is 11AM-Noon at Clover. Come and provide your feedback.
As a writer, community activist, and long-term Newton resident, I am supporting and voting for Cyrus Dahmubed to become Newton Ward 4, At-Large, City Councilor. Anyone in Newton can vote for him. What is it about Cyrus that makes me want to support him? Foremost, he is a concerned, inquisitive,…
On Tuesday, January 6 at 10:30AM, Theresa Chaklos from the AARP Volunteer Speakers bureau will give a presentation in the Multipurpose Room at the Cooper Center (345 Walnut Street, Newtonville) on how we can best navigate constant change so that we can continue to enjoy our lives and our loved…
Enjoy an upbeat musical program that includes pop, rock, and folk-rock songs primarily from the 1960s and early 1970s on Thursday, January 8 at 1:30PM in the Multipurpose Room at the Cooper Center (345 Walnut St, Newtonville). Led by singer, yodeler, and multi-instrumentalist, Roger Tincknell, the concert will feature many…
Join Ty Burr for a screening and post-screening discussion of “Her” on Thursday, January 8 at 6:30PM at the West Newton Cinema. Tickets are $20. About the film:Theodore is a lonely man in the final stages of his divorce. When he’s not working as a letter writer, his down time is…