The Friends of the Upper Falls Greenway will host a community tour of the Upper Falls Riverwalk on Sunday, December 4, starting at 1PM. Please meet at the benches near the Braceland Park parking lot, south of the Chestnut St – Pennsylvania Ave intersection in Newton Upper Falls (map). The tour…
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The Jameson Singers will present their holiday program, With a Joyful Heart, at Second Church (60 Highland Street, West Newton) on December 4 at 3PM. Tickets are $15 online or at the door. Highlights include: The same concert will also be presented at First Church in Cambridge on December 3…
The Nonantum Children’s Christmas Party Association will hold its annual Park Lighting celebration at Coletti-Magni Park on Sunday, December 4 with hot chocolate and caroling at 6:15PM and the park lights turned on at 7PM.
This weekend, over 370 student artists participated in Newton Cultural Development’s Halloween Window Painting event, now in its 23rd year. You can admire their work in the shop windows of Auburndale, Newton Centre, Newton Highlands, Newtonville, Nonantum, and West Newton. (Our photos in these links don’t do them justice. Please…
An incident on Union Street in Newton Centre last Thursday night inspired this artful response. Todd Miskell, owner of BMBI Fitness, arrived Friday morning to find a gaping hole in one plate glass window on the front of his gym and an outdoor chair askew on the floor inside. Upbeat…
Newton’s Department of Public Works will hold an online meeting (Zoom link) on November 2, 6PM-8PM, to summarize the community feedback it has received about the Newton Highlands Project and to gather further community input on the initial design alternatives for the village center. See flyer.
On October 29, noon-3PM, the Friends of Coletti-Magni Park will offer pumpkin carving and painting, live music, and cider, followed by a Jack O’Lantern Walk, 7PM-8:30PM at Coletti-Magni Park.
Newton Cultural Development’s annual Halloween Window Painting event — October 29 (rain date: October 30), 9AM-4PM — offers opportunity for all Newton students in Grades 3-8 (under adult supervision) to decorate participating merchants’ windows with Halloween-themed artwork. The six villages in this year’s event are Auburndale, Newton Centre, Newton Highlands,…
On October 25, all eight members of the City Council’s Land Use Committee voted to recommend to the Full Council approval of the Crafts Street Elder Housing with Services proposal (see Special Permit documents), which includes a request to rezone seven parcels (34, 36, 38, 48, 50 Crafts Street, and…
In its October 24 meeting, the City Council’s Zoning and Planning Committee reviewed a presentation of the preliminary mapping of proposed zoning districts in Village Centers. The presentation was made by the City’s consultant for this project, Utile, under the direction of the Planning Department. These selected slides from the…
NOTE: Bob Burke has lived in Newton Highlands for most of his life. This is an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, as told to Highlands resident and professional memoirist, Andrew Szanton. I played a lot of sports as a teenager. Pickup games after school, often on the Aqueduct. I played…
The Nonantum Neighborhood Association organizes an annual bus trip to raise funds for three $1000 scholarships for high-school seniors. This year’s trip, on November 5, will go to Woodbury Common Outlets for luxury goods and Mohegan Sun for gambling and a large Christmas Festival. Buses will depart 110 Linwood Avenue…