As anticipated, Alexandria, the nation’s largest life science real estate investment trust, has sold its Newton Riverside Center (275 Grove Street, Auburndale) to Boston-based Greatland Realty Partners for $117 million, half of the price it paid for it in 2020. Adjacent to the now-paused Mark Development Riverside project, the three-building…
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On Wednesday, June 28, Mayor Ruthanne Fuller, Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan, and Newton Police Superintendent George McMains led a community meeting to discuss the June 25th homicides of Lucia Arpino, 97, her daughter Gilda (Jill) D’Amore, 73 and her son-in-law, Bruno D’Amore, 74. The three were murdered in…
The St. Mary of Carmen Society hosts its 88th annual Italian-American festival, July 12-16, 5PM-11PM (4PM-11PM on July 16) in Pelligrini Park (11 Hawthorn Street, Nonantum). Carnival by Fiesta Shows, with special prices on Wednesday and Thursday. Food, beer, and wine for sale each night. Raffles supporting the St. Mary…
The Charles River Watershed Association is looking for help from community volunteers to clear the invasive water chestnut from the Charles River. The Community Water Chestnut Removal will take place on July 15, 9AM-12PM, at Paddle Boston: Newton Historic Boathouse (2401 Commonwealth Avenue, West Newton). Register here.
The Linda Plaut Festival of the Arts (July 21-22) will start an evening early with a kickoff fundraising event at Baramor (45 Union Street, Newton Centre), July 19, 6PM-8PM. It will feature live music, specialty cocktails, craft beer “charity draw” that supports Newton Community Pride, and raffle drawings from local…
Northland Development will host a Community Tour of its real estate development project at the corner of Needham and Oak Streets on July 20, 6PM-7:30PM. Weather permitting, this will include a walk through the construction site. The tour will start inside of Building 1, the historic mill building at 156 Oak…
Newton Community Pride will host the 8th Annual Linda Plaut Festival of the Arts on Friday, July 21 and Saturday, July 22 at the Hyde Community Center and Hyde Playground (90 Lincoln Street, Newton Highlands), in conjunction with Summer at Hyde. All performances are free and open to everyone. Friday,…
The Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Association (GBCCA) will hold its annual Picnic Day for the Newton community on July 23, 11AM-2PM, at Auburndale Park (104 West Pine Street, Auburndale). Admission (free for GBCCA members, $10 for others) includes food, drinks, and games. Register here.
The First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton is hosting a series of free summer chime concerts, and the next ones will be offered at 5PM on July 23 and August 19. The concerts feature veteran Cornell University chimes masters Bob Feldman, Cathy Longley-Cook, and Jenny Xia, as well as Paul…
The Bristol Waban Condominiums (20 Kinmonth Street) is offering four deed-restricted, new-construction condominium units for sale in Waban village center. There will be an online public information meeting (Zoom link) on July 24 at 6:30PM. Applications are due by August 21, and a lottery will be held on September 1…
Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan announced an arrest in the murders of three elderly family members found stabbed and bludgeoned early Sunday morning at 49 Broadway in Nonantum. The victims have been identified as 97-year-old Lucia Arpino; her daughter Gilda (Jill) D’Amore, 74, and Gilda’s husband, Bruno D’Amore, 75.…
[This is an evolving story that will be updated.] Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan announced this evening that Newton resident Christopher Ferguson, age 41, was arrested sometime after 7PM and charged with the murder of Gilda D’Amore in the triple homicide discovered on Sunday morning on Broadway in Nonantum.…