Tarik Lucas has been a City Councilor from Ward 2 since his special election win in March, 2021 to fill the seat of the newly elected congressman, Jake Auchincloss. Born in Malden, Tarik grew up in Brookline and has lived in Newtonville for fourteen years. Since 2008, Tarik has been…
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Rep. Jake Auchincloss has announced that his guest at President Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday will be Dr. Xiaoyan Qin, owner of Union Pharmacy in Newton Center. After working as a pharmacist and pharmacy manager in Newton Center for 15 years, Dr. Qin opened Union Pharmacy in…
Like most police forces across the country, Newton’s has few female officers. However, Lt. Amanda Henrickson has taken an important step in breaking barriers by recently becoming the first woman to lead a department bureau in the city. Now the highest-ranking female officer in Newton and only the second woman…
On January 26 at 7PM, Historic Newton and the Newton Free Library will host a talk by Barry Wagner, author of a book about longtime Newton resident Arnold Hiatt, the president and chief executive officer of The Stride Rite Corporation. Hiatt launched the nation’s first corporate on-site child care center,…
Directors of the Senior Citizens Fund of Newton (an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization) and the Council on Aging invite you to join them at an Open House reception honoring Jayne Colino on her retirement after 32 years of outstanding leadership as Newton’s Director of Senior Services. The event will be…
For nearly nineteen years, Artitudes Gallery, on Washington Street in West Newton, has been an attraction, a place to find original jewelry, crafts, and accessories. The gallery, three doors from the West Newton Cinema, has been a magnet for the long lines of movie-goers waiting for their show to start.…
The City of Newton, in conjunction with Harmony Foundation, will host the City’s 55th annual celebration of Martin Luther King Day, honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., will take place on January 16 at 9:30AM at Newton North High School with the theme: Justice — Injustice Anywhere is a…
Executive Director, New Philharmonia Orchestra and Managing Director, Newton Cultural Alliance Adrienne Hartzell Knudsen has been promoting and managing the performing arts scene in Newton since 1995, when she became Executive Director of the New Philharmonia Orchestra. But her active involvement really began in the mid 1980s when her husband,…
Folksinger Catie Curtis has done it all, musically. She started in Saco, Maine, where she was born, singing and playing (the guitar) the music of folk legends like James Taylor, and evolved into a folk music legend in her own right. In high school, and especially at Brown University, she…
“Music is such a central part of my life,” said Lisa Wong, violinist, pediatrician, and long-time Newton resident. “For me, balancing music and medicine is not a choice, but a necessity.” She began playing the piano at age three and violin at eight, and also learned guitar and ukulele. Lisa…
Allison-Yoshie Eldredge is a world-renowned cellist, founder and director of the new Cherry Street Players, and the first Artist in Residence at the Allen Center, on Webster Street in West Newton. In 1854, Nathaniel Topliff Allen, a disciple of Horace Mann, Massachusetts Secretary of Education, opened the West Newton English…
On Saturday, over one hundred friends and family of 12-year-old Eytani Ganot gathered at his West Newton home to celebrate the surprise granting of his wish — to go on the new, one-of-a-kind Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser at Walt Disney World Resort. In 2012, Eytani was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare muscle disorder,…