On Patriots’ Day, a group of current and former Newtonville Area Council (NAC) members and Newton City Councilors, along with family and friends, gathered on Walnut Street in Newtonville to dedicate a bench to the memory of Susan Reisler, a longtime community leader and NAC member. The plaque on the…
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At the Newton City Hall War Memorial on April 15, Mayor Ruthanne Fuller received the 2025 Sheila Mondshein Award for Outstanding Leadership in Promoting Fair Housing. The award is granted annually by the Newton’s Fair Housing Committee. The group’s mission is to create diverse housing accommodations free of discrimination. “This…
Avi Attar, a senior at Princeton, is one of two students receiving this year’s Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize — the University’s highest general distinction for undergraduates, awarded to “the senior who has most clearly manifested excellent scholarship, strength of character and effective leadership.” Rep. John Lawn has been named…
The Newton Art Association (NAA) will host their biggest event of the year, the James King Bonner Exhibit, named after NAA’s founder. The exhibit will occur from Monday, March 3 until Wednesday, April 30 at the Morse Institute Library (14 East Central Street, Natick). There will also be a reception…
Dr. Mahdieh Beheshti opened her pediatric dental practice, Bee Happy, in Newton last November. It doesn’t look or sound like a typical dentist’s office. Soft ambient music soothes patients in the waiting room, which is adorned with a mural depicting a woodland scene with a honey-eating bear, buzzing bees, and…
Juliana Pasquarosa, born and raised in West Newton, has won “The Bachelor.” On the 29th season of the ABC reality TV show, Pasquarosa was one of 25 women vying for an engagement to the “Bachelor,” Grant Ellis. After weeks of elimination rounds, the 28-year-old Pasquarosa ultimately won the affections of…
Leila Novak Mostaghimi, who plays clarinet, has been chosen by Carnegie Hall as one of 89 young musicians selected from across the country for NYO2, an intensive summer orchestral training program for outstanding American instrumentalists, ages 14–17. NYO2 will play at Carnegie Hall on July 27 and will debut as a resident…
One of the two season-29 “Bachelor” finalists, Juliana Pasquarosa, is from West Newton. [UPDATE: In the finale, it was revealed that she won.] The 28-year-old Pasquarosa is a client service associate for Winthrop Wealth, a wealth management firm, and manages social media for both La Beautique Salon in Newton, which her…
David Bramante ran the West Newton Cinema for 46 years, turning it into one of Boston’s premier movie theaters for arthouse, international, and independent film. His achievement was celebrated at the theater on March 15 in a surprise party hosted for him by the West Newton Cinema Foundation (WNCF) and…
Margaret Morganroth Gullette has published six books on age and ageism, most recently American Eldercide. How It Happened, How to Prevent It, by the University of Chicago Press. The book has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. See her interview in Nonprofit Quarterly. Jameson White…