Dance and become immersed in colors at Newton’s fourth annual celebration of Holi, the Indian community’s spring festival of color, on Saturday March 30 from 1PM to 2PM in front of Newton City Hall (War Memorial entrance). Join Newton students, neighbors, and officials in this event featuring dance, art, music,…
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Recent honors, appointments, and arrivals for people who live or work in Newton…
On March 21, a group of Muslim residents hosted Newton’s first community-wide interfaith Ramadan event. During Ramadan, Muslims fast daily from dawn to sundown and customarily gather with family and friends to break fast in the evening with a meal, Iftar. For this event, about 250 Muslim and non-Muslim residents…
Newton South’s College & Career Center will host its 2nd Annual Career Pathways Event, free and open to all, on March 27, 6:30PM-8PM at Newton South High School (140 Brandeis Road). It’s presented in partnership with MassHire and Newton’s Youth & Young Adult Division of the Social Services Department, to…
Highlights This Week: Click the links in bold below for details on the meetings: locations, Zoom links, agendas, documents. City Council Finance will meet Monday to consider requests regarding: Zoning and Planning will meet on Monday to consider: City Council will meet as a Committee of the Whole on Wednesday to discuss findings…
Finance will meet virtually (Zoom link) on Monday, March 25 at 7PM. The agenda includes the following requests: Zoning and Planning will meet in person (Room 204) and virtually (Zoom link) on Monday, March 25 at 7PM. The agenda includes the following: City Council will meet in person (Council Chamber)…
School Committee will meet in person (Education Center, Room 210) and virtually (Zoom link) on Monday, March 25 at 6:30PM in a special meeting with no public comment. The agenda includes the following: The Negotiations Subcommittee of the Newton School Committee will meet in-person (Education Center, Room 304) on Tuesday,…
Newton Cultural Council will meet in person (Allen House, 35 Webster Street, West Newton) and virtually (Zoom link) on Monday, March 25 at 5:30PM. The agenda includes the following: Newton Free Library Trustee Strategic Planning Steering Committee will meet virtually (Zoom link) on Monday, March 25 at 2PM. The agenda…
The following potential projects/proposals are scheduled to meet with the Development Review Team (DRT) this week (see DRT Snapshot):
Over the March 16-17 weekend in Foxborough, Newton’s eighth-grade boys travel basketball team won the 2024 Division 1 New England Championships — for the fourth year in a row. The team has been playing together since 4th grade and has now completed its final season in Metrowest Basketball, competing against…
The second annual Interfaith Music Night will take place at Grace Episcopal Church (76 Eldredge Street, Newton Corner) on March 25, 6PM-7:30PM. It’s free and open to all, with songs, chants, mantras, prayers, and meditation. Vegan and vegetarian food available. Sponsored by Newton Community Pride, Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries, and the…
The League of Women Voters of Newton will be holding a Topic Meeting on Monday, March 25 to learn about the effort undertaken by Newton Community Pride, the Newton Cultural Alliance, the New Art Center, and the Charles River Regional Chamber to make the part of Washington Street that connects West Newton and Newtonville and adjoining streets a designated Cultural…