Garry Miller is a first-time candidate running for Ward Councilor in Ward 5. He and his husband have lived in Upper Falls for nearly twenty-seven years, where he has been a volunteer with Newton Serves and the Newton Conservators and is a member of the Northland Neighborhood Liaison Committee. He…
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Julie Irish, President of the Newton Upper Falls Area Council and longtime community activist, is running for Ward Councilor in Ward 5, which also includes Waban and some of Newton Highlands. As an Area Council member and now its president, Ms. Irish has been involved in the Needham Street Northland…
Repeal of Newton’s longstanding, controversial, four-month winter parking ban will be on the November ballot, and voter preference will be binding. The repeal measure has been before the City Council in various forms and has been denied each time. Two Newton residents — Jeremy Freudberg and Peter Klapes — had…
Two months and a day after Nonantum residents were surprised and angered by the late-night grinding of the roadway on Adams Street – and the appearance of double-yellow lines in place of the colors of the Italian flag – the City sent a team of contracted power-washers to again remove…
Two incumbent City Councilors – Alan Lobovits (Ward 6) and Rick Lipof (Ward 8) – withdrew from their races for reelection just before the deadline, narrowing the field to three in Ward 6 and leaving the two remaining Ward 8 candidates unopposed. Alan Lobovits (Ward 6) In a surprise announcement,…
At 5PM on Wednesday, July 16, it was hot and still sunny as the 90th start of the five-day St. Mary of Carmen festival — Festa — began in Pellegrini Park on Hawthorne Street. Members of the St. Mary of Carmen Society gathered in their assigned places after three weeks…
It began as a late-night surprise: street grinding and repainting of double-yellow lines on Adams Street on June 26, three weeks before the beginning of the 90th anniversary of the community’s major Italian annual celebration. Mayor Fuller defended the removal of long-standing Italian green-white-red stripes, saying that the double-yellow lines…
Wednesday, July 16, is the beginning of the 90th annual St. Mary of Carmen Society festival, known as Festa, in Nonantum. The festival celebrates the enduring Italian heritage of “The Lake” — as the neighborhood is called in the community, many of whose ancestors emigrated from the San Donato area…
As reported earlier, the City of Newton authorized the painting of double-yellow lines in the median strip on Adams Street, which was done after 10PM on June 26. The action occurred three weeks before the local St. Mary of Carmen Society’s 90th annual five-day celebration, which culminates in a procession bearing…
Shortly after 10PM on Thursday evening June 26, the residents of Adams Street were shocked by loud street sounds accompanied by heavy dust coming through their windows. When they opened windows and doors, they discovered men in protective clothing and masks operating trucks that were grinding up the pavement on…
Caleb Gannon appeared in Newton District Court on June 26 for a hearing on an assault charge related to an attack on Scott Hayes last September. He had been charged with attacking Mr. Hayes, a Framingham resident, who was part of a pro-Israel rally at the corner of Harvard and…
On Wednesday morning, June 4, a group of about thirty parents, children, construction staff, teachers, City Councilors, and School Committee member Emily Prenner joined Mayor Ruthanne Fuller and School Superintendent Anna Nolin at the long-awaited groundbreaking for the new addition to the Horace Mann School at 225 Nevada Street. The…