3Jun Update — “Sustainable Streets Tour @ Garland Rd is still ON for tomorrow, Sunday June 4 from 12-4 p.m. in spite of the anticipated light rain. “ Garland Road’s Sustainable Street Tour is just a week away. From noon until 4:00 PM on June 4th, friends and neighbors will have an opportunity…
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“What things have you done to help climate change?” Andrew Breithaupt thought for a moment before he answered: “I’ve driven across the country three times.” Breithaupt, resident of Newton for just over a year, might be recognized as the creator of Green Newton’s climate kiosk. That’s the big Tic-Tac-Toe exhibit…
Headquartered at City Hall, the Newton Food Pantry, founded 40 years ago, currently serves more than 2,000 Newton residents — over 270 households every week. It’s a remarkable accomplishment. And no one is more proud of it than Regina Wu, MD, who has served as the Pantry’s president since July…
The Programs & Services Committee convened last Wednesday night in a discussion of four departmental budgets: City Clerk, Newton History Museum, Newton Free Library, and the Parks, Recreation and Culture Department. With respect to the City Clerk’s budget, the committee learned there was a fifty percent decrease in staff at…
During a Celtics game on January 20, seniors at Newton South High School Sam Klein and Vassili Syssoev received honors through the Boston Celtics’ Heroes Among Us program for their work in community service. Co-founders of Student Landscape, a student-led landscaping company in the Greater Boston Area, Klein and Syssoev…
People talked and champagne flowed last Saturday night at the Wilson chapel, where the Jennifer Price Global Education Leadership Fund (GELF) held its annual fundraising dinner. This was the first GELF dinner since 2019, and excited parents, teachers, and council-members could all be seen gathered in the big main hall…
Earth Day weekend came to a close, but not due to poor weather. Neither Saturday’s 50-degree chills nor Sunday’s rain could prevent a hundred or so people from gathering on each of those days to celebrate and draw attention to Newton’s actions toward a greener future. Two events – the…
On April 22, returning from a clean-up of the Newton Centre Playground, Newton South High School’s Green Student Movement, Key Club, and UNICEF chapters attended the Newton Democratic City Committee Earth Day rally on the Newton Centre Green. Although their appearance was unplanned, club leaders and participants said that attending…
The first news article released about Friday’s drag show at Newton North High School came out about a week ago. And in those seven days of suspense, quite a few different narratives about the event emerged – near total support from students and local activists, to anticipation from parents of…
Last Wednesday night marked the Newton Youth Commission’s eighth monthly meeting and the debut of Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan’s Digital Citizenship Academy in Newton. According to Meghan Murtagh,the assistant director of Youth Services, the Youth Commission is a collective of Mayor-appointed youth and adults that meets monthly to discuss…