The First Church in Chestnut Hill will hold its annual Palm Sunday Service on Sunday, April 13 at 10:30 AM. The service features favorite hymns and selections from Bach, Blow, Dandrieu, and Tambling on the church’s historic organ and will be followed by coffee, refreshments, and conversation in the parish…
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Newton’s JourneySongs is an interfaith choir committed to singing for people with hospice services and their caregivers, as well as at memorial services and celebrations of life. We rehearse on Sundays, twice a month, in Newton, MA and sing in surrounding communities. JourneySongs uses the gift of song to provide both comfort…
Both the LigerBots — Newton’s dual-high-school robotics team — and the Oak Hill MathCounts Club competed this weekend with impressive results. LigerBots The LigerBots competed at the Granite State District FRC competition February 28-March 2 in Salem, New Hampshire, reaching the finals and winning the Autonomous Award. In this first…
Highlights this week… City Council City Council will meet on Monday and is expected to vote on the following (see Reports Docket): The New Docket includes the following Land Use will meet on Tuesday: Rules Subcommittee will meet on Wednesday: Programs and Services will meet on Wednesday to consider an…
City Council will meet in person (Council Chamber) and virtually (Zoom link) on Monday, March 3 at 7:45PM. See Reports Docket and New Docket. Watch a live broadcast of the meeting on NewTV’s government channel (Comcast 9, RCN 13, 614(HD), Verizon 33) or NewTV’s Youtube channel. Land Use will meet…
School Committee has no meetings scheduled for the week.
Youth Commission will meet virtually (Zoom link) on Monday, March 3 at 6:30PM. The agenda includes the following: Planning and Development Board will meet in person (Room 204) and virtually (Zoom link) on Monday, March 3 at 7PM. The agenda includes the following: Newton Human Rights Commission‘s regularly scheduled meeting…
Development Review Team (DRT) is scheduled to meet this week regarding these potential projects/proposals (see DRT Snapshot):
You Can Help Send Deserving Students to Summer Camp! Summer Camp Matters. For five years now, Newton Neighbors Helping Neighbors has been supporting families who cannot afford to send their children to summer camp. This year, its goal is to provide a summer camp experience for 50 students, to enable…
State Rep. Amy Sangiolo will be the guest speaker at the Black History Month Lecture series organized by Lionel Porter at Cabot Park Village (280 Newtonville Avenue) on February 28 at 3PM. She will discuss the long history of Black–Asian solidarity, such as the ties with the NAACP Legal Defense…
Emily Craven — who is running the Boston Marathon to help fund the Fig City News summer internship program — is also organizing the Fig City News Shamrock 5K for the same purpose. The race is twice around Jamaica Pond plus 0.1 mile to the finish, for a total of…
We updated What’s Up in Newton – Week of 2/23/2025 and School Committee Meetings – Week of 2/23/2025 to include the agenda for the regular School Committee meeting, which was posted after our initial publication.