The Christmas Parade will take place on Sunday, December 21, beginning at 12PM. The parade will take Santa and friends all over Nonantum to bring holiday cheer to children and families. Santa and friends will end the parade with a 45-minute visit at Coletti-Magni Park for photos. The parade route…
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Registration is now open for Halloween Window Painting for grades 3 to 8. Sign up to express your artistic side by painting a window of a participating merchant in one of seven Newton villages. Window painting takes place 10AM-4PM on Saturday, October 25 (rain date, October 26), but the registration deadline…
On Monday October 13, all are welcome to join the Annual Rolling Parade through the streets of Newton to celebrate Columbus Day! The parade will be followed by an Italian Heritage Celebration at the American Legion Post 440. 9AM Assembly at 100 Walnut Street parking lot. Rolling at 10AM. Finishing at rally at American Legion Post…
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the American Legion Post 440 will host a Casino Night Fundraiser on Friday, October 17 at Post #440 (295 California Street). Doors will open at 6:30PM. Tickets ($50) through Venmo. Proceeds will be used for ongoing repairs and maintenance of the Post so the American…
Get your best Halloween costumes and spooky outfits ready for St Mary of Carmen Women’s Society‘s annual Halloween at the Park at Coletti Magni Park (391 Watertown Street, Nonantum) on Saturday, October 25 from 12-3PM. This free event includes pumpkin carving and painting (supplies provided, or bring your own), face…
Turtle Studios — a nonprofit, democratic artist community — will swing open its doors to the public for its semiannual Open Studios art exhibition and sale at 213 California Street, Nonantum on Saturday and Sunday, October 25-26, 12PM-5PM. Turtle Studios has an exciting and eclectic mix of members who keep…
On Sunday, September 14, the West Newton Cinema was filled with memory, humor, and resilience as actress, screenwriter, and essayist Marianne Leone and her husband, Chris Cooper, read from her new novel Christina the Astonishing. The free event was jointly organized by Newtonville Books and the West Newton Cinema as…
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…
The Adams Street Shul (168 Adams Street, Nonantum) invites all to enjoy a spirited, soulful, singalong Kabbalat Shabbat service, preceded by Mincha at 7PM and followed by a Congregational Dinner. Register online to make dinner reservations ($10 per person or $25 per family).
State Rep. John Lawn – whose recent arrest and arraignment on charges of operating under the influence (OUI) have been centerstage across local media outlets since the July 16 crash – told Fig City News on July 22, “I’m going to run again.” Buoyed by support of his family, friends,…
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…