For over 20 years, the Newton Schools Foundation (NSF), through its annual Honor Thy Teacher campaign, has enabled friends, families, and alumni of the Newton Public Schools (NPS) to honor specific NPS faculty and staff while supporting NPS programs financially. The campaign has the potential to raise tens of thousands…
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On May 29, the City of Newton was among 12 Massachusetts cities — along with the Commonwealth and 13 of its 14 counties — named by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as “sanctuary jurisdictions” that DHS said “obstruct the enforcement of Federal immigration laws, …protect dangerous criminal aliens…
The triangular parking lot in Newton Centre — the Langley Lot — will be closed Tuesday, May 20 through Thursday, May 22 — for repaving. This work closure was originally scheduled for May 16-18, but that coincided with the Boston College commencement, one of the busiest days of the year…
Shortly after 9AM on Monday, May 12, a blue minivan and a gray sedan – both unmarked but with red-and-blue flashing lights – stopped and surrounded a white panel van as the three vehicles traveled south on Lexington Street in Newton, 200 feet south of crossing Rumford Avenue and River…
Shortly before 8AM on the rainy morning of May 5, several masked men — identifying themselves as “federal officers” and wearing insignia saying “POLICE” and “HSI” — emerged from five dark vehicles that had stopped and surrounded a Ford Focus on Maple Street in Watertown. In the car were two…
At 6PM on Friday, the bells in the tower of the First Unitarian Society in Newton (FUUSN) pealed for 15 minutes, joining other places of worship across the country. All were resonating with the bells of Boston’s Old North Church, where two lanterns were hung exactly 250 years before to…
A sure sign of spring: On April 14, Mass Wildlife delivered about 400 rainbow trout to their new home in Crystal Lake. With only about a half-hour notice of the event, City Councilors Martha Bixby and Alan Lobovits were on hand to welcome the new residents. Newton Recreation Manager Carol…
Newton’s Director of Parks & Open Space, Luis Perez Demorizi, recently announced that construction has begun on Phase 1 of the improvements scheduled for Albemarle Field. When he presented updated plans for Albemarle and other fields in a webinar last March (see Fig City News article), he indicated that construction…
Newton’s dual-high-school robotics team, the LigerBots, hosted the Massachusetts-East FIRST LEGO League (FLL) tournament at Newton North High School on December 14. This was a FIRST tournament (as in FIRST LEGO League) for the LigerBots, but not their first. The LigerBots have hosted at least seven FIRST LEGO League Qualifier tournaments…
At the end of last fiscal year (ending June 30), the City of Newton had $23,633,416 of Certified Free Cash available. So far, $6.5 million of that has been appropriated, and uses for another $4 million are proposed and pending, leaving $13.1 million unallocated. So as of today, December 10…
From December 1 through March 31, the City of Newton bans parking for longer than one hour between 2AM and 6AM “on any street, way, highway, road, parkway, or private way dedicated or open to the use of the public,” regardless of the weather. Vehicles parked in violation may be…
The Newton Turkey Trot is an annual event — featuring both a 1-mile family race and a certified USATF 5K road race — on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, starting and ending at Zervas Elementary School. It started 11 years ago with 100 runners, but this year has grown to 1,700…