The UU Plant-Based Eating Club, housed at the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton (FUUSN), will host two discussions of the book The Engine 2 Seven-Day Rescue Diet: Eat Plants, Lose Weight, Save Your Health, by Rip Esselstyn. It’s about how a group of firefighters in Texas tried plant-based eating…
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The choirs of the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton and the UU Society of Wellesley Hills will be combining to sing for two Music Sunday services featuring the beautiful Lux Aeterna by Morten Lauridsen. “The five movements of Lux Aeterna are based on various references to light from sacred…
The Racial Justice Ministry of the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton invites the public to Reckoning with Our Racist Past — a presentation by Rev. Kevin Peterson, founder of the New Democracy Coalition and the Faneuil Hall Race + Reconciliation Project. Please join us on Sunday, March 26, 11:45AM-1PM in…
Music Mondays is excited to present Thoreau Duo: Susan Jensen (violin) and Rebecca Thornblade (cello) on Monday March 27, 2PM-3PM at the Scandinavian Cultural Center, Nordic Hall (206 Waltham Road, Newton). Please join us live or by Zoom Thoreau Duo consists of two terrific musicians who are also Newton residents.…
Dr. Oneeka Williams has been named a trustee of William James College. She serves as director of female urology at Emerson Hospital and assistant clinical professor of urology at Tufts University School of Medicine. She is a member of the board of advisors at Boston’s Museum of Science and served…
In response to revisions to the School Committee’s agendas, we have updated the schedules for interviews with candidates for Superintendent: Dr. Anna Nolin on Wednesday and Thomas Anderson on Thursday. We have also included information about community forums with each candidate and forms for the public to submit feedback on…
We have made corrections to the changes in polling locations that we reported in What’s Up in Newton this week – 2/5/2023. The correct changes are: Two changes of polling location:
We updated our article, 3 public meetings on the Override, to include a link to the recording of the January 26 Town Hall Forum.
Mayor Ruthanne Fuller held a two-hour online Town Hall Forum on January 26 to answer questions about the proposed tax override. A recording of the meeting has been posted here. On Sunday, February 5 at 2PM, Mayor Ruthanne Fuller and Interim Superintendent Kathleen Smith will host a Tax Override Forum…
An online public hearing has been scheduled for Thursday, February 16 at 7PM (Zoom link) on a group petition requesting the City Council to pass a measure postponing any immediate action for new or replacement artificial turf anywhere in Newton pending the completion, public presentation, and public hearing for the…
Green Newton will present a free webinar, Electric Vehicles 101, on January 31, noon to 1PM. Register here.
The Cabot Park Black History Lecture series will celebrate Black History Month with a talk by Danielle Allen on January 4 at 3PM in the Community Room at Cabot Park Village (280 Newtonville Ave.). This lecture is free and open to the public. Covid protocols: Masks are required. Danielle Allen is the James…