On Tuesday, January 6 at 10:30AM, Theresa Chaklos from the AARP Volunteer Speakers bureau will give a presentation in the Multipurpose Room at the Cooper Center (345 Walnut Street, Newtonville) on how we can best navigate constant change so that we can continue to enjoy our lives and our loved…
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Join Ty Burr for a screening and post-screening discussion of “Her” on Thursday, January 8 at 6:30PM at the West Newton Cinema. Tickets are $20. About the film:Theodore is a lonely man in the final stages of his divorce. When he’s not working as a letter writer, his down time is…
Enjoy an upbeat musical program that includes pop, rock, and folk-rock songs primarily from the 1960s and early 1970s on Thursday, January 8 at 1:30PM in the Multipurpose Room at the Cooper Center (345 Walnut St, Newtonville). Led by singer, yodeler, and multi-instrumentalist, Roger Tincknell, the concert will feature many…
There will be a UMass Mt Ida / Oak Hill Park community meeting on Friday, January 9 at 9AM on the UMass Amherst Charles River Campus (formerly Mt Ida campus), in the Campus Center Private dining room, which is just off the main dining hall.
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.…
As part of the Newton Conservators’ seasonal walk series area naturalist Jeff Adams will lead a winter plant and tree identification walk in Newton’s Kennard Park on Sunday, January 11 from 11AM to 12:30PM. Discover how to identify bare plants by their branching patterns, bark, buds, galls, and any fruits remaining…
The Isabel Oliart Band – featuring Isabel Oliart, Anne Hooper, and Sammy Wetstein – presents an afternoon of Celtic fiddle music at the Newton Free Library on Sunday, January 11 at 2PM. Isabel Oliart is the current National Scottish fiddle champion and plays music from her CD of original tunes, ‘Late Evening’s Dram.’…
The Newtonville Star Market at 33 Austin Street reopened on Friday, October 31 at 10AM days after an emergency shutdown following a report from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection that demolition work in a stockroom, an area not accessible to the public, released asbestos creating a potential “imminent health…
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.
Upwards of 2,000 protesters filled Newton Centre Green on Saturday, October 18, for the second No Kings demonstration condemning the policies of the Trump Administration. The rally was one of more than 2,700 held nationwide, with organizers estimating roughly seven million participants across the country. The Newton event was organized…










