Hundreds of girls from middle and senior high schools across Middlesex County filled the Newton War Memorial Auditorium on Thursday morning, November 13, for the Empowering Girls Conference produced by Marian Ryan, Middlesex County District Attorney and Massachusetts’ sole woman district attorney, who has produced the conferences since 2015. This…
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Newton South High School’s South Stage will present Shakespeare’s Hamlet at 7:30PM on November 20, 21, and 22 in the NSHS Seasholes Auditorium. This is an intimate retelling of the classic tale of betrayal, revenge, and power. Set against a contemporary backdrop, South Stage’s Hamlet makes Shakespeare’s words and characters…
On November 5 at 7PM, West Newton Cinema will host a screening of the heartwarming feature documentary Spreadsheet Champions, followed by a panel discussion with Newton’s own spreadsheet champion pioneers — Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston. Dan Bricklin invented and codeveloping (with Bob Frankston) VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet, which…
The LigerBots are sponsoring the FIRST Lego League (FLL) Eastern Massachusetts Championship and STEAM Expo on Saturday, December 20 from 10AM-3PM at Newton North High School. This event is open to the public! Over 30 teams of 4th-8th graders are expected to compete with robots built out of legos. In…
Newton’s Department of Public Works hosted Newton’s now-annual Pumpkin Smash outside City Hall on Saturday, November 1, with many inventive and powerful ways to smash post-Halloween jack o’ lanterns. Also available were environmentally themed exhibits about composting and managing food waste, Touch-a-Truck opportunities, food trucks, and ways to donate Halloween…
Are you interested in volunteering to help a member of our community learn English? Join the Newton Free Library’s English Language Learning Program! The next information session will take place on Saturday, January 10 at 10AM on Zoom. It will be followed by training for new volunteers on Saturday mornings in January and February.…
Fourteen-year-old Ted Lahey has turned his family’s front yard on Pine Ridge Road into a Halloween face-off between a life-sized pirate ship and castle. Ted, a freshman at Newton South High School, has been designing and building the elaborate display largely from scratch since last year. The first thing he…
Parks, Recreation & Culture hosted Halloween Window Painting for grades 3 to 8 throughout the villages on Saturday, October 25. See this year’s gallery at https://photos.figcitynews.com/2025/2025-Halloween-Window-Painting. Photos by Tessa Gordon and Bruce Henderson.
On October 22, Newton North High School celebrated Diwali, the Indian festival of light that symbolizes the triumph of good over evil. No longer just a festival celebrated by Indian Hindus, it has become a truly global event. Newton is known for its multi-ethnic and multicultural fabric, and Newton North…
A community-based science team is heading to Paris this weekend to compete at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition, a global event promoting innovation in synthetic biology. One of the team leaders is Aneesha Aryan, a Newton North High School student who helps guide community outreach for the project.…